248956 - no easy way to open multiple tabs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Charles Fry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8

It would be very cool if one could paste multiple URLs (middle-click in Linux)
and have them all open, each in a new tab!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Bogdan Stroe]

Please be more specific about what your proposal. Where will you paste the URLs?
See also discussions in bug 9247, and bug 4778.

Comment 2

[Charles Fry]

I don't know what the equivilant behavior is on other platforms, but on Linux
one can "paste" a URL by clicking with the middle mouse button anywhere in the
main browser window where pages are displayed. Perhaps the corresponding
behavior on other platforms would be to paste multiple URLs in the Location Bar.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Charles Fry]

I still think that this is a valid request, although I have changed the summary
to reflect the fact that there simply is no easy way to open a large number of
tabs, given a list of URLs.

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

When clicking on a link in antoehr applciation (say, a mail-reader), this already works when they're separated by a "|". See bug 221445 for problems with that.

Opening from inside the open-file dialog box is bug 217921.

But typing multiple URL's inside the locationbar would be too difficult for Joe Sixpack. Recommend WONTFIX (this can be done in an extension, but doesn't belong in Firefox).

Comment 6

[Ryan Hickman]

WONTFIX seems proper in this case.