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.

  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlOP
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    8 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@lemmy.ml
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          8 months ago

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

          • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlOP
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            8 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@lemmy.ml
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              8 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

              • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlOP
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                8 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@lemmy.ml
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                  8 months ago

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

    • Malix@sopuli.xyz
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      8 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.