Firefox @lemmy.ml interdimensionalmeme @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

Which addon, will open multiple tabs, from the multiple URLs in my clipboard ?

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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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
  
  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
  
  if the links are all different, I think there are tools that can do that (spreadsheets, scripts)
- 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?
Why do you need 100s of tabs? How do you navigate and make use of 100s of tabs?
- @Sanctus
  
  Killing tabs is mean and cruel!
  
  However, even with 100s of them, you just need to jump into the address bar and type some letters of the tab's address and Firefox will offer you to switch to it.
  
  @interdimensionalmeme
  
  I never have more than ten tabs open. With my bookmarks I just type like "bookstack" and I'm there. Seems like its the same though so to each their own.
- I regularly handle 1500-2000 tabs, tab manager plus, order by domain, session manager and about 50 more addons help me stay on top of it all.
  
  Thats insane. But doesn't necessarily answer why you would need thousands of tabs actually open. It just sounds like so much effort to keep tabs open when you could just bookmark them and use a keyword to instantly go there when you need to.
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
  
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/paste-site-list/?utm_content=addons-manager-reviews-link&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_source=firefox-browser
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.
- @Malix @interdimensionalmeme Good to know, powerful :)
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  why does it need to be from the clipboard?
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.

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