There used to be an addon, “Open tabs from clipboard URLs” but I can’t seem to find it anymore.
The best I find now is, an addon that opens a box, then you paste your URLs in it, then you press a button.
That’s not what I want. I want a toolbar button, I press it, the tabs open.
So that I can opens large blocks of URLs.
Also, I would like another addon which opens large blocks of URLs but does not load them immediately.
I have LoadOnSelect3 for this, but the problem with that one, is that it opens special moz:// pages until you load the tab. And that breaks searching and filtering tabs because the tab title and URL are not the real ones.
I use URLList for this
Looks good, but can it open tabs from multiple URLs in the clioboard ?
You paste them into a the addon’s window and it’ll open them all, yes.
Why do you need 100s of tabs? How do you navigate and make use of 100s of tabs?
I regularly handle 1500-2000 tabs, tab manager plus, order by domain, session manager and about 50 more addons help me stay on top of it all.
Thats insane. But doesn’t necessarily answer why you would need thousands of tabs actually open. It just sounds like so much effort to keep tabs open when you could just bookmark them and use a keyword to instantly go there when you need to.
I find the bookmark manager terrible, I rather paste URL in notepad than endure the bookmark manager’s UI. I do end up dumping thousands of tabs into the bookmark manager, but never in 30 years have I bothered to use a bookmark. Except for the bookmarks toolbar.
Keeping the extremely primitive bookmark manager organized would suck up more of my time than all other browser task combined.
This discussion not about the bookmark manager, it is about pasting tabs from my clipboard. And the answer has been found. Unfortunately it is a two click process.
And opening 100+ tabs at once still clogs up the system because they all load immediately.
Keeping the extremely primitive bookmark manager organized would suck up more of my time than all other browser task combined.
I use keywords for my bookmarks… way more effective then tabs… and it doesn’t eat up computing power or RAM
Killing tabs is mean and cruel!
However, even with 100s of them, you just need to jump into the address bar and type some letters of the tab’s address and Firefox will offer you to switch to it.
I never have more than ten tabs open. With my bookmarks I just type like “bookstack” and I’m there. Seems like its the same though so to each their own.
What is your use case, why do you want to do this? Sounds like an xy problem
I want to open hundreds or thousands of tabs
If you don’t give more context we can’t really help.
Why do you want to open 100s of tabs? Where do you get the links, are they generated by some other software, or you just saved them?
They are tabs I got somewhere else, probably another browser or session. Possibly from another system. Sometimes I have mass modified the URLs. Examole, strip tracker, remove duplicate, order url alphanunerically.
What matters is, they are in my clioboard, I want to open them all with one keypress, and it would be great , but not essential, if they would load one after the other, rather than all at once.
You still haven’t answered to the question why, so follow the other general solutions, and I still think something is inherently wrong with your workflow, but for some reason you won’t tell us.
Also search for bookmark managers, you can sync pages with them between browsers.
yeah probably opening the tabs is not the best solution anyways. maybe a python scraper would be an easier solution to whatever problem they have
