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Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by abrowne »

rsync wrote: post #31

I don't understand why a simple export of the list of current tabs open is not a basic, built-in feature of the browser. I am not asking for management or storage or export or sharing ... or anything interesting at all. I should just be able to go to: chrome://tabs (or whatever) and see a text list of tab URLs. All browsers should have this functionality.

For Chrome/ium (very similar for Firefox)

- Ctrl+Shift+D (bookmark all), optionally type name, press Enter

- Ctrl+Shift+O [Cmd+Shift+ B on Mac IIRC] (open bookmarks), click on the folder or navigate to it with Tab and arrows

- Important: press Tab to select the contents rather than the folder

- Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by weaksauce »

errnoh wrote: post #41
cloudking wrote: post #32

Serious question, people who have hundreds or thousands of tabs at a time, why? Personally I've never found the need to have so many tabs open.

I think my tabs mostly belong to one of two categories: * Research about a subject (that I didn't close when I continued to the next one) * "Oh that's interesting, I'll read it later" I do remember that 10+ years ago I used to have a nice collection of bookmarks, each with relevant tags. Then one day I had to switch browsers due to performance issues, the new browser didn't support tags from the previous one so lost…

I'm very similar to you... i even made a webext to help me find tabs quickly as i will tend to open a window do something and then open up a few tabs in that window and eventually minimize the window to dock. if you have a hundred tabs open across many windows you come into a situation of where did that tab go? now it's just cmd-shift-e and visually scroll through the list of open tabs and then click on the link to bring it front and center.

might be useful to you:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog...

and open source too if someone feels like contributing:

https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by kranner »

sneak wrote: post #46
rsync wrote: post #31

I don't understand why a simple export of the list of current tabs open is not a basic, built-in feature of the browser. I am not asking for management or storage or export or sharing ... or anything interesting at all. I should just be able to go to: chrome://tabs (or whatever) and see a text list of tab URLs. All browsers should have this functionality.

I don't understand a lot of things about browsers, including why they don't log/persist caches of the full content of all history (for full text search at the minimum), why they still send user-agent headers, why they persist all cookies for all domains by default, et c. It's making me rather cynical, because I'd like to think that browsers are user agents, but I think these days they're just advertising company agen…

For full-text search over all history, History Hound (https://www.stclairsoft.com/HistoryHound/) works pretty well if you're on macOS.

[No affiliation, I'm just a user]

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by dbg31415 »

I use CopyTabTitleUrl -- I like that I can key bind it, and customize the output that gets pasted.

I press Option + C, and the output looks like this:

* CopyTabTitleUrl – Get this Extension for Firefox (en-US) || https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copytabtitleu...

Works in Firefox and Chrome.

* CopyTabTitleUrl - Chrome Web Store || https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/copytabtitleurl/lm...

It can also grab the format for all open tabs. Here it's grabbing the title + URL, complete with my formatting.

* Netflix || https://www.netflix.com/...

* Hacker News || https://news.ycombinator.com/

* Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more || https://www.amazon.com/

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by O_H_E »

gunn wrote: post #62

I use and can recommend the chrome extension from https://sessionbuddy.com/ Even if you don't use it actively, it periodically saves the state of your windows and tabs (all locally), so you can restore sessions from months and years ago.

SessionBuddy is amazing. It is the only thing I am missing from chrome.

Although it is not open-source, it has customizable exports in a variety of text formats . Too tired to write more, but if you use chrome check it out.

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by antonycourtney »

For what it's worth, since folks are mentioning other extensions, my full-featured tab manager extension, Tabli (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabli/igeehkedfibb...) provides a "Copy Window Summary" action that will copy all open windows and tabs to the Clipboard as a nicely-formatted Markdown table. Tabli was a "Show HN" items about 5 years ago and is still actively maintained. Of interest to HN crowd: MIT licensed, no cloud component, rigorous privacy policy (100% in-browser), keyboard shortcuts for most functionality. I wrote a Medium piece with an overview of Tabli a couple of weeks ago: https://medium.com/@antonycourtney/taming-tab-hell-with-tabl...
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