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Which addon, will open multiple tabs, from the multiple URLs in my clipboard ? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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There used to be an addon, "Open tabs from clipboard URLs" but I can't seem to find it anymore.

The best I find now is, an addon that opens a box, then you paste your URLs in it, then you press a button.

That's not what I want. I want a toolbar button, I press it, the tabs open.

So that I can opens large blocks of URLs.

Also, I would like another addon which opens large blocks of URLs but does not load them immediately.

I have LoadOnSelect3 for this, but the problem with that one, is that it opens special moz:// pages until you load the tab. And that breaks searching and filtering tabs because the tab title and URL are not the real ones.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Assuming you know what you're doing, maybe some script? At least on linux something like this seems to work:

#!/bin/bash

urls_file="${HOME}/path/to/url_list.txt";
sleep_time=1;

while read -r line;
do
    firefox "${line}";
    sleep ${sleep_time};
done < "${urls_file}";

edit: heh, tried to delete this as irrelevant, as I entirely missed the clipboard & requirement for a button IN firefox.. but it didn't really delete it seems. Oh well, leaving this in for laughs.

Anyhoo, if you need to speed up/throttle the link opening somehow, maybe add some incremental counter there and skip sleeping if counter < 10 or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

On windows (where I am trapped), I can make a script read the clipboard (or even a script directly in my clipboard manager, ditto) but what I don't know is how to make firefox open URLs in a specific window.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

why does it need to be from the clipboard?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because that is where they are and is convenient for me. I already have a matching, copy selected tabs to clipboard, button.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

so you copy opened tabs to clipboard and want to re-open another copy?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It is a list of URLs, it can come from many places. I'm not just closing and reopening 100+ tabs from and to the same place. Example copying tabs from one computer, or vm, to another.

The list could also be out of a text editor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You know that if you setup a mozilla account, you can view tabs from any device/vm? and its supposed to be e2ee

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I use that between my main pc and phone. But doing that for multiple hundreds of tabs gets quite clunky compare to copy and pasting lists of urls.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I loved to see the statistics on how often you use each of those tabs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It really depends what the content of each tab is and if it has what I'm looking for. The whole thing about having loaded tabs versus bookmarks is that you can search and skim them, without a 5-10 second pause every time you go to the next one. Not that the bookmark manager even has a "magazine" system that would let you skip between bookmark with a single button like a tab does. Still this is very far from optimal. Firefox has an opaque tab data discard system and no tools at all for searching all content in all tabs. It also lacks a automatic AI tab categorization feature. You can't even assign tags to tabs, even manually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

if firefox is the default browser, I guess just start "" "https://your.url.here.foo", as per https://superuser.com/a/36730

otherwise, I guess you could just cd to firefox's directory and do the same firefox.exe urlhere

as for specific window... yea that might be tad hard. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/CommandLineOptions doesn't seem to have any way to indicate any specific instance/window from cli.

could be firefox handles those internally, kinda seems like urls open up in the window which was last active. So.. I guess you could start the script by starting firefox with --new-instance or --new-window, and patiently wait until urls are open? I guess.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Maybe it's time I learn to use violent monkey

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

@Malix @interdimensionalmeme Good to know, powerful :)