Finally, I can simulate 9P on worse browsers.
TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem
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Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem
#82Slightly OT: I would really like an alt-tab command that cycled through my browser tabs as well as my app windows. Nowadays a single website is more like an app than the entire web browser is, so I think this metaphor would make sense.
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#83It would be cool if the DOM was exposed. Then you could write one liner bash scripts to do simple tasks like “download all images” or “delete script tags referencing spammyads.js”, all with nothing more advanced than find, cp, rm and mv in the shell. E.g. cp html/body/*/img/.hero-img/hello.png ~Downloads/ You would need some clever way to express the DOM with ids and classes etc but it could be done with some subdire…
Cool idea, but I'd worry about all the malformed markup.
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#84This is a cool idea. It would be nice to be able to blacklist some tabs though. For example, I wouldn’t want the text of my banks website easily readable by any random process.
You could probably run your bank website in incognito mode and avoid extensions. I do this all the time because I don't completely trust any of my installed extensions. Even if I did, they are auto-updated and their code can change at any time without any notice.
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#85This is an awesome idea and great work! I didn't even know I needed this until now. Now I even feel like something similar should be a regular part of a web browser, just like web development tools :)
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#86This is the best idea I've seen all year.
You can make it so that every website is fully searchable and the data easily viewable/extractable. Set up the marketplace for user created plugins, the possibilities are endless.
I would happily contribute $25k to this. reply if interested.
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#87I'd be willing to back a patreon that explores this concept further. I'd be worried about browser updates breaking things though.
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Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Chrome only preserves browsing history for 90 days. Keeping tabs open can work around that limitation
Without even bothering to check, this seems like it can't possibly be true. You are surely not saying that the billions of Chrome users worldwide have no browsing history from September or earlier, right?
"Your History page shows the webpages you've visited on Chrome in the last 90 days."[0]
Google's My Activity[1] stores everything though.
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#90I didn't see any cookie or local storage management. Is that included?