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Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by anthk »

pjmlp wrote: post #121
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…

The problem is that too many dump GNOME and KDE for their twm flavour window manager and then it is no wonder that these ideas get lost among GNU/Linux users.

Meh, I just remote-mount everything with stuff like rclone, then everything is a VFS kinda like plan9.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by coliveira »

m463 wrote: post #122
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 keep a few tabs open, and close the browser regularly. A friend of mine keeps basically infinity tabs open. I sort of rolled my eyes, but accepted his rare behavior. However as time has gone on, I've been surprised to find I may have the rare behavior and it is common for people to work this way. So.. maybe this is a way he can backup his "filesystem" and not suffer a nervous breakdown when his machine reboots or s…

I can have as much as 100 tabs open, depending on what I'm doing.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by anthk »

pjmlp wrote: post #34
Shared404 wrote: post #4

I'm loving this trend to do more things with filesystems. There was https://amoffat.github.io/supertag/ [,] which I'm intending to use in my filesharing sftp server, and now this, which seems like something that exposes functionality from a web browser that I would love.

KIO and GVfs wave hopeless to the crowd too busy replicating a UNIX V6 experience with a bit of Plan 9/Solaris influence.

Ironically this is reimplementing plan9/9fs and everything is a filesystem. If any, this is Unix++.

Also, say hello to FUSE, which tries to mimic that on the userland.

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by feverfew »

lights0123 wrote: post #130
amyjess wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So one thing really cool about KIO is that any KDE application can understand KIO URIs. You can paste any KIO URI into any application's file open dialog box and it'll retrieve it. So for example, you could open any KDE media player, paste in an audiocd:// URI, and it'll play the specified track from your CD. And it also meant that any application could open remote files without having to manually download them first…

How does it work internally for non-KDE apps? GNOME's equivalent, GVFS, uses real FUSE paths at /run/user/1000/gvfs. Does KIO do the same thing, or copy them to a temporary directory before sending the path to the application?

Since yesterday there's a stable release of KIO FUSE [0], which does functionally the same as GVFS.

[0]:https://feverfew.home.blog/2020/12/31/kio-fuse-5-0-0-release...

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by adrianmonk »

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.

> Telligent

Taligent?

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by weaksauce »

m463 wrote: post #122
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 keep a few tabs open, and close the browser regularly. A friend of mine keeps basically infinity tabs open. I sort of rolled my eyes, but accepted his rare behavior. However as time has gone on, I've been surprised to find I may have the rare behavior and it is common for people to work this way. So.. maybe this is a way he can backup his "filesystem" and not suffer a nervous breakdown when his machine reboots or s…

I am like your friend... basically tabs are a "working memory" that you don't want to store permanently in bookmarks. each window or sets of windows is typically a different topic that is being research on with a bunch of middle clicks to open tabs. I have so many open that I wrote a small webext for it that shows a page of all your tabs that you can click on to navigate to that tab with a click. just a nicer interface to see all the windows open and all the tabs. https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist

Re: TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

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Post by banjomet »

wutbrodo wrote: post #24

Wow, this is awesome! My OS is heavily scripted and keybound, thanks to 15 years of cumulative incremental fixes and a kick-ass WM. The one thing that's frustrated me is the relative black box that my browser represents, and writing a shim between my WM and browser tabs has been on my TODO list for a long, long time (through a couple of aborted attempts due to a combination of Chrome's at-the-time obsolete documentat…

What window manager do you use?
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