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Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by garaetjjte »

pvorb wrote: post #57
viraptor wrote: post #49

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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 K…

>It used to be KDE's file manager and web browser all in one app.

That was apparently common thing to do, as Microsoft did the same in Windows 98 integrating Explorer with IE.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by wutbrodo »

herewulf wrote: post #208
wutbrodo wrote: post #162

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I currently use the Great Suspender on Chrome, which will suspend a tab that's been open for a while. The suspended tab just shows a Great Suspender icon, so it takes up ~0 RAM. I've whitelisted certain domains and sites (eg Messenger apps). I know there are a ton of extensions aimed at this problem, including OneTab (which will collapse many tabs into a single page of links), but TGS works the best for my workflow.…

DANGER, Will Robinson! I could really use something like the Great Suspender. However, looking into it, I found quite a bit of controversy surrounding its new (since June) "maintainer". This issue sums it up well: "SECURITY: New maintainer is probably malicious"[1] Here is the gist of it: > Using the chrome web store version of this extension, without disabling tracking, will execute code from an untrusted third-part…

Thank you for the heads-up! The way extension stores work always made me a little uneasy about using smaller ones like this.

Edit: haha, someone seems to have seen your comment and made a post that made it to the Frontpage of HN

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by herewulf »

wutbrodo wrote: post #232
herewulf wrote: post #208

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DANGER, Will Robinson! I could really use something like the Great Suspender. However, looking into it, I found quite a bit of controversy surrounding its new (since June) "maintainer". This issue sums it up well: "SECURITY: New maintainer is probably malicious"[1] Here is the gist of it: > Using the chrome web store version of this extension, without disabling tracking, will execute code from an untrusted third-part…

Thank you for the heads-up! The way extension stores work always made me a little uneasy about using smaller ones like this. Edit: haha, someone seems to have seen your comment and made a post that made it to the Frontpage of HN

You're welcome! Yes, it's quite problematic and there are numerous ways malicious code can abuse the sandboxed environment.

That's great news about that article! Thanks for pointing that out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622015

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by herewulf »

skulk wrote: post #215
herewulf wrote: post #203

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That's interesting. I've been looking at EXWM recently as I expand my emacs usage (I've been using XMonad for about 10 years). How do you group related tabs together? Or is this somehow not necessary? Have you noticed a significant difference in memory usage? qutebrowser turns into quite the memory hog over time. I have to periodically restart qutebrowser so my hundreds of tabs go into suspended mode. Even suspended…

I don't group related tabs together; I don't have a list of tabs on my screen anywhere and fuzzy finding with ivy-switch-buffer them is sufficient for me. Unfortunately, I can't answer your other questions because I'm good at closing tabs :p

Thanks for the reply. I imagine I could tag them somehow and fuzzy find on the tag or a tagged subset. I'm actually looking at the Nyxt browser now also.

I'm a freelancer, so I regularly switch between various active projects or future, potential projects. That results in lots of tabs.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by weaksauce »

loceng wrote: post #225
weaksauce wrote: post #199

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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…

Awesome! I'm not sure if the version on the store has the tab backup feature enabled or not but there is a backup feature that is under the options area. It just dumps a json file with all your tabs and a restore feature where it opens up all those tabs again but that is really slow if you have a lot of tabs.

Interesting idea on the popup; I'll give that some thought.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by ksec »

theelous3 wrote: post #105
ksec wrote: post #46

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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.

> Lost about 800 a few weeks ago from Safari crash again Sounds like someone taking a corner at 200 mph and rolling their eyes when they hit the crash barrier. Not often is the following true, but - you're using that tool wrong.

The crash has nothing to do with 800 tabs. Most of those Tabs are not active. And a crash, whether it has 1 tabs or 10000 tabs that lost the previous sessions is not using the tool wrong.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by loceng »

weaksauce wrote: post #235
loceng wrote: post #225

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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…

Awesome! I'm not sure if the version on the store has the tab backup feature enabled or not but there is a backup feature that is under the options area. It just dumps a json file with all your tabs and a restore feature where it opens up all those tabs again but that is really slow if you have a lot of tabs. Interesting idea on the popup; I'll give that some thought.

Cool, thanks. Another use case other than backup I was thinking is if just wanting to share a window of tabs (so all relating to a project) by copy/pasting it to someone in a message/email; I guess on flip side too, if person receiving the links also had Tabist then could have another popup to "open links" (maybe there's a way to do that in Chrome easily but I'm not aware); could eventually create a centralized service that just pushes the links to them and perhaps auto-opens them - obvious potential security issues there but arguably person you're receiving links from would be trusted by you.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by lilyball »

ksec wrote: post #129
lilyball wrote: post #52

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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).

iOS reloads them ( or partially load them ) as you scroll through it to get a screenshot. I tried it just now. Or they somehow saved a Screenshot of it. ( But then there is no reason why macOS safari isn't doing the same. ) macOS does the same except without the scrolling.

iOS saves screenshots of tabs. I scrolled through my own and found a bunch of old tabs (didn't realize I had so many) that just showed pure black.

macOS saves screenshots too, to show when hovering over a tab. Curiously, it doesn't seem to use these saved screenshots in Show All Tabs. Also I just tested, Show All Tabs on macOS is no longer loading unloaded tabs. I have a window with 13 tabs right now, only two of which I've visited since launching Safari, and the others just remain as blank in Show All Tabs.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by jle17 »

pvorb wrote: post #57
viraptor wrote: post #49

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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 K…

> It used to be KDE's file manager and web browser all in one app.

It goes further than that. It's pretty much everything in one app. KIOs accesses stuff and KParts shows it. Since many applications expose their functionality using those, it can show whatever content they support and browse it as a filesystem when it's possible.

Web browsing is just KIO doing http and a KPart showing the page. File management is just the file (or smb or sftp or whatever) KIO and the Dolphin KPart. The Kate KPart is used in both cases to either view local text files or web pages source.

But there are others and you can do any combination, including some cool ones.

You can go to man:// or info:// to view man/info pages.

The Akonadi KIO from the PIM suite can be used to browse remote mail or calendar accounts and extract data.

It even used to be possible to use magnet links in HTML (like in ) with kio-magnet or to browse mysql databases and use applications to edit content in cells with libferris, although I don't think those are currently maintained.

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