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Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by quantified »

pjmlp wrote: post #120
cpach wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if they were inspired by BeOS. These days many desktop interfaces feel quite dumbed-down. Still very usable though. But perhaps sometimes with unrealized potential.

Nope, Telligent, Xerox PARC workstations, ETHZ Oberon based OSes, and Solaris already had this idea surfaced in different ways.

Which supports your feeling that the current (dominant) systems are dumbed-down. I don’t want to think about the security implications of the carious implementations on this long holiday weekend... but if we needed to spend less energy on security we could have nicer toys.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by catchmeifyoucan »

iam-TJ wrote: post #218
catchmeifyoucan wrote: post #210

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This describes Amna quite well. I think you'd love it! It's still early, but a lot fo the things you mention, we're working on. https://getamna.com It's designed like a todo list which is a layer out to keep that context

The promo looks slick but there are two blockers for me: 1. Not FOSS (Hard requirement *) 2. Basic/Free version doesn't claim Firefox connector * I insist all my businesses use only FOSS for core functionality and we have on-premise capability (no 'cloud'). As well as putting us in control of our own destiny (we have the talent) we can add specific functionality at-will and do contribute that back to projects as well…

Thanks for calling it out! Open Source is a consideration, but we're not there just yet with it. You still have 'On' Premise with Amna. All data is stored on your machine.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by dsp_person »

tobestobestobes wrote: post #134
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".

It's a huge leap forward in browser management. Not exactly a replacement for headless browsing/scraping etc, but for personal use, nothing compares. A big contribution to the "personal data management" toolbox. In the realm of tab management, I use this one liner in console of chrome://inspect every once in a while, then just close all of my tabs: collection = document.getElementById("pages").getElementsByClassName(…

cool this seems handy, but when I try my chrome://inspect/#pages only contains a small subset of tabs out of the few dozen windows I have open. Any tips?

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by pjmlp »

quantified wrote: post #221
pjmlp wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, Telligent, Xerox PARC workstations, ETHZ Oberon based OSes, and Solaris already had this idea surfaced in different ways.

Which supports your feeling that the current (dominant) systems are dumbed-down. I don’t want to think about the security implications of the carious implementations on this long holiday weekend... but if we needed to spend less energy on security we could have nicer toys.

They aren't dumbed-down, the features are there, used on macOS, Windows, to certain extent by iOS and Android IPC, GNOME and KDE apps, they just aren't used by those that think using twm clones and the CLI are the epitome of UNIX desktop experience.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by loceng »

weaksauce wrote: post #199
jsrcout wrote: post #168

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This is the extension I didn't know I needed, thank you!

I hope you find it useful :) if you have any suggestions let me know. i have been working on a small upgrade to it where the tabs can be closed with a middle click and reordered in the windows but i don't work on it very often as it's quite useful as it stands for my needs edit cmd-shift-e/ctrl-shift-e will open up the extension which I guess I should update on the homepage.

Hey cool, thanks, I've installed it now too - it'll be quite useful!

I'd love if you could have a link on the Tabist page that shows a popup allowing for copy/pasting of a text box to show list of titles/URL or just URLs for either easy sharing of a grouping of tabs or so I could do an occasional backup of URLs? Not sure if this person's code is useful for that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25605222 ?

Maybe a global link for all windows and one per window?

Edit to add: I have a dream of someday contributing financially to a bunch of open source organizational tools that I'd like to see/would use and depend on heavily, let me know if interested in hearing more - can email me matt@engn.com if curious.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by twobitshifter »

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".

The author mentioned dired for emacs which is the perfect tool for this. Is there an equivalent file plugin for vim?

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by twobitshifter »

If you have many tabs open, it’s good to schedule some time to put these into a bookmark manager, memex, org brain, tiddlywiki, or equivalent. I’ve found they’re open usually because the work on each tab is unfinished. I’ve got to read this, I want to remember this, or this could help me with a project, are the categories my tabs often fall into. An inbox zero approach to tabs is what I’m working towards.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by dopidopHN »

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…

Han, I completely forgot I used to do that. Indeed, that type of feature felt incredibly powerful back then. And Browser tabs were new anyway. ( Limited to Opera only IIRC )

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by tobestobestobes »

dsp_person wrote: post #223
tobestobestobes wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a huge leap forward in browser management. Not exactly a replacement for headless browsing/scraping etc, but for personal use, nothing compares. A big contribution to the "personal data management" toolbox. In the realm of tab management, I use this one liner in console of chrome://inspect every once in a while, then just close all of my tabs: collection = document.getElementById("pages").getElementsByClassName(…

cool this seems handy, but when I try my chrome://inspect/#pages only contains a small subset of tabs out of the few dozen windows I have open. Any tips?

Looks like only recently opened tabs (or some variation on that) show up here. To test, reload all tabs In one window (I used an extension) and check out chrome://inspect again. It's all there. Maybe there's a good reason for not showing all pages in inspect. Who knows. Another problem is that my script grabs page subprocess urls also. I've mainly used this for grabbing my android tabs.

This is an adapted version that skips grabbing subprocesses

  collection = document.getElementById("pages").getElementsByClassName("subrow"); final_output_tsv = "title\turl\n"; for (let item of collection) {if(new RegExp("([a-zA-Z0-9]+://)?([a-zA-Z0-9_]+:[a-zA-Z0-9_]+@)?([a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Za-z]{2,4})(:[0-9]+)?(/.*)?").test(item.children[0].innerHTML) === false) final_output_tsv += `${item.children[0].innerHTML}\t${item.children[1] ? item.children[1].innerHTML : "N/A"}\n`}; copy(final_output_tsv)
edit: I used reload all tabs extension with reload all tabs in all windows option turned on. This could get messy.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by dash2 »

ALittleLight wrote: post #176
dash2 wrote: post #82

Slightly 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.

ctrl and page up or down move forward and back across tabs in most browsers. ctrl (or alt) + number switches to that tab.

But I want something that integrates browser tabs and other ordinary app windows. A single command for everything.
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