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Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by blackrock »

axbytg wrote: post #13
cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #3

This is a brilliant piece of work. As someone who has thousands of tabs open, I've always wanted to "close all tabs with a single command", or view all the open tabs and mass select them and close, for years. Otherwise, going through them one by one and deleting takes forever. Now somebody make a vim pluggin so I can delete tabs by visual selecting a bunch of them and typing "d".

> As someone who has thousands of tabs open This behavior always confuses me. To what end? Have you ever derived any value from a tab you chose not to close?

I open a new window to research a specific topic. Then I open up all the links on sub tabs.

This encloses all my research for this subject in one window. Often times I have upwards of 10+ windows opened. Since some of the work spans over several days or weeks.

I also take screenshots of relevant information. Which gets automatically labeled by date and time into a screenshot folder, and sub-sorted into months.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by lilyball »

ksec wrote: post #46
cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #3

This is a brilliant piece of work. As someone who has thousands of tabs open, I've always wanted to "close all tabs with a single command", or view all the open tabs and mass select them and close, for years. Otherwise, going through them one by one and deleting takes forever. Now somebody make a vim pluggin so I can delete tabs by visual selecting a bunch of them and typing "d".

Same here, currently sitting at 300 tabs ( Lost about 800 a few weeks ago from Safari crash again ). I just wish the Show All tabs on Safari put up a list of tabs so I could quickly navigate through them ( and selectively close them ). Right now Show All Tabs Reloads all the tabs. That is the same on macOS and iOS. Your phone gets quite warm doing it.

Show All Tabs on iOS definitely does not reload tabs. I know on macOS it used to force all tabs to load but I had the impression lately that it wasn’t doing that anymore (though I rarely use this feature).

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by frombody »

yudlejoza wrote: post #19
cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #3

This is a brilliant piece of work. As someone who has thousands of tabs open, I've always wanted to "close all tabs with a single command", or view all the open tabs and mass select them and close, for years. Otherwise, going through them one by one and deleting takes forever. Now somebody make a vim pluggin so I can delete tabs by visual selecting a bunch of them and typing "d".

1 - Right-click empty space next to the tabs and select 'Bookmark all tabs' 2 - Name the bookmark folder (within the top-level bookmark folder) something like: 'Tab-mess-from- ' 3 - Ctrl-F4 close them. Press and hold Ctrl, then F4 them one at a time. You can close 200+ tabs in a minute. (or as other suggested, right-click any tab and use the option 'close other tabs').

There is a browser extension called onetab that does this for you.

The issue i find is that even if you create the perfect system, you still rarely m go back and revisit these tabs kept open.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by eitland »

cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #3

This is a brilliant piece of work. As someone who has thousands of tabs open, I've always wanted to "close all tabs with a single command", or view all the open tabs and mass select them and close, for years. Otherwise, going through them one by one and deleting takes forever. Now somebody make a vim pluggin so I can delete tabs by visual selecting a bunch of them and typing "d".

> I've always wanted to "close all tabs with a single command", or view all the open tabs and mass select them and close, for years.

In Firefox you can right-click on a tab and close

- all tabs

- or all tabs to the right

If you use tree style tabs you can also close a tree or a subtree.

Edit: and there is an extension (yep :) to the tree style tab extension to allow you to export a subtree as a nested list of links - in Markdown!

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by eitland »

superkuh wrote: post #16
rasz wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>thousands of tabs open yeah about that, are you sure they are open and not hibernated? Chrome had proactive-tab-freeze-and-discard , later renamed to proactive-tab-freeze and finally forced On in 80 with no option of turning it off. 'hibernated' tabs are merely a bookmark without loaded content. I dont think this extension would be able to work with non loaded tabs without forcing them all to load. 300 tabs is able…

Using single process Firefox forks I often load in 500 tabs plus another 500+ suspended in under 4 GB. Of course I'm also running NoScript temp whitelist only and most sites are websites not web applications. But 1000 loaded tabs is certainly doable in way less than 16GB of ram if you don't use a multi-process browser. It's just a shame this is written as a chrome style extension (which modern FF supports) and not a…

Which fork do you use?

I'm starting to get seriously tempted to go with one of the forks. I seriously miss the old extensions.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by pvorb »

viraptor wrote: post #49
sho_hn wrote: post #41

KDE on Linux used to have something similar in the late 90s - it allowed you to open a website URL as a directory listing, so you could browse the site's asset directories and open image files, etc. Think like a client-side generated version of Apache's index pages, but using your local file manager. It was a plugin to the VFS framework (KIO) the desktop and all the apps use, so it would also work e.g. in Open File d…

I suspect it would be harder to pull off these days without launching chrome headless for example. Opening the page itself wouldn't include images/resources loaded over JS. It would also not work great with image atlases.

I think KDE still supports Konqueror, which implements things like this. It used to be KDE's file manager and web browser all in one app. I always found this to be quite logical. The underlying abstraction is called KIO. Unfortunately I have no KDE installation at hand, so I can't tell if dowloading all images of a webpage still works as easily. The Audio CD ripping feature should work without problems, though.

Btw Konqueror also used/uses the KHTML rendering engine, which was the foundation for WebKit.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by eitland »

axbytg wrote: post #13
cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #3

This is a brilliant piece of work. As someone who has thousands of tabs open, I've always wanted to "close all tabs with a single command", or view all the open tabs and mass select them and close, for years. Otherwise, going through them one by one and deleting takes forever. Now somebody make a vim pluggin so I can delete tabs by visual selecting a bunch of them and typing "d".

> As someone who has thousands of tabs open This behavior always confuses me. To what end? Have you ever derived any value from a tab you chose not to close?

> Have you ever derived any value from a tab you chose not to close?

Not GP but of course!

Why would we close something we are going back to?

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by franga2000 »

eitland wrote: post #55
cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #3

This is a brilliant piece of work. As someone who has thousands of tabs open, I've always wanted to "close all tabs with a single command", or view all the open tabs and mass select them and close, for years. Otherwise, going through them one by one and deleting takes forever. Now somebody make a vim pluggin so I can delete tabs by visual selecting a bunch of them and typing "d".

> I've always wanted to "close all tabs with a single command", or view all the open tabs and mass select them and close, for years. In Firefox you can right-click on a tab and close - all tabs - or all tabs to the right If you use tree style tabs you can also close a tree or a subtree. Edit: and there is an extension (yep :) to the tree style tab extension to allow you to export a subtree as a nested list of links -…

Since recently, you can also ctrl- and shift-select them and either move or close just those tabs. Sounded like a gimmick when I first saw it, but it has proven to be a huge time saver when I neeed to split a window in two because my browsing session has expanded far beyond the original scope or kill a bunch of tabs in the middle somewhere because a thread of searching has proven fruitless.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by eitland »

sho_hn wrote: post #41

KDE on Linux used to have something similar in the late 90s - it allowed you to open a website URL as a directory listing, so you could browse the site's asset directories and open image files, etc. Think like a client-side generated version of Apache's index pages, but using your local file manager. It was a plugin to the VFS framework (KIO) the desktop and all the apps use, so it would also work e.g. in Open File d…

> KDE on Linux used to have something similar in the late 90s - it allowed you to open a website URL as a directory listing

On this topic and more generally, I think KDE had gotten way too little credit!

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