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.
What is your use case, why do you want to do this? Sounds like an xy problem
Two potential solutions to x in this case might be
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if the links are always the same, save them as bookmarks in a folder and you can right click to open all in new tabs
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if the links are all different, I think there are tools that can do that (spreadsheets, scripts)
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Sounds like they want to do some half manual scrapping or something like that
I want to open hundreds or thousands of tabs
If you don’t give more context we can’t really help.
Why do you want to open 100s of tabs? Where do you get the links, are they generated by some other software, or you just saved them?
They are tabs I got somewhere else, probably another browser or session. Possibly from another system. Sometimes I have mass modified the URLs. Examole, strip tracker, remove duplicate, order url alphanunerically.
What matters is, they are in my clioboard, I want to open them all with one keypress, and it would be great , but not essential, if they would load one after the other, rather than all at once.
You still haven’t answered to the question why, so follow the other general solutions, and I still think something is inherently wrong with your workflow, but for some reason you won’t tell us.
Also search for bookmark managers, you can sync pages with them between browsers.
yeah probably opening the tabs is not the best solution anyways. maybe a python scraper would be an easier solution to whatever problem they have
I use URLList for this
Looks good, but can it open tabs from multiple URLs in the clioboard ?
You paste them into a the addon’s window and it’ll open them all, yes.
You cant have an addon that open larg blocks of urls and doesn’t load them but does show its titles on each tab; If you are showing the title of the tab is because the page has been loaded at some point
I would like the browser to throttle the rate of tab openning, something like 1 per 2 second, and maybe waiting until no more than 10 that are currently loading. Because when I try to open 100 tabs it chokes my system for about 5 minutes and sometimes even trigger the remote host’s anti-ddos defence so that all the tabs end up broken and I have to reload them a second time.
But that’s really the second point.
The first point is “Open tabs from clipboard URLs”
I did find something in the mean time.
It works, but it’s a two step process, instead of a single click toolbar button like what I had previously.
It is Copy/Paste and Save tabs list by Alan
You just have the link texts in a text editor one at each line, then select all and drag the selection to tabs toolbar.
But yeah, it does become an issue if you try it with thousands of tabs… It should work, but probably chokes quite a bit.
while read p; do firefox “$p” done <file.txt
Unfortunately, the tabs open in a seemingly random window
Assuming you know what you’re doing, maybe some script? At least on linux something like this seems to work:
#!/bin/bash urls_file="${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.
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.
why does it need to be from the clipboard?
Because that is where they are and is convenient for me. I already have a matching, copy selected tabs to clipboard, button.
so you copy opened tabs to clipboard and want to re-open another copy?
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.
You know that if you setup a mozilla account, you can view tabs from any device/vm? and its supposed to be e2ee
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.
if firefox is the default browser, I guess just
start "" "https://your.url.here.foo", as per https://superuser.com/a/36730otherwise, I guess you could just cd to firefox’s directory and do the same
firefox.exe urlhereas 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-instanceor--new-window, and patiently wait until urls are open? I guess.Maybe it’s time I learn to use violent monkey
@Malix @interdimensionalmeme Good to know, powerful :)
If you know Javascript you could maybe create a bookmarklet that does this. I just don’t know if it can access your clipboard.
That’s a great idea, I’m giving it a try.
