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.

  • @[email protected]
    2•9 months ago

    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]OP
      1•9 months ago

      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.

      • auth
        1•9 months ago

        why does it need to be from the clipboard?

        • @[email protected]OP
          0•9 months ago

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

          • auth
            1•9 months ago

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

            • @[email protected]OP
              0•9 months ago

              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.

              • auth
                1•9 months ago

                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]OP
                  1•9 months ago

                  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.

                  • auth
                    1•9 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
        1•9 months ago

        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.