148416 - Ability to load multiple URIs in tabs from command line.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Cmd-line Features, enhancement)

Description

[Steve Catmull]

Tabbed browsing has really enhanced my browsing experience because I can
maintain a context of websites in one browser.  For example, I may put all of my
stock pages in one tabbed window. 

Keeping with the idea of themes, it would sure be nice to be able to either save
a tabbed set of files for later re-opening or allow the loading of a tabbed
environment via the commandline.  I tried the following commandline permeatations:

- "c:\program files\mozilla.org\mozilla\mozilla.exe" "http://www.mozilla.org
http://www.google.com"
- "c:\program files\mozilla.org\mozilla\mozilla.exe"
"http://www.mozilla.org;http://www.google.com"
- "c:\program files\mozilla.org\mozilla\mozilla.exe"
"http://www.mozilla.org,http://www.google.com"
- "c:\program files\mozilla.org\mozilla\mozilla.exe" "http://www.mozilla.org"
"http://www.google.com"

As one would could reasonably expect, the browser attempted to load the first
three as one location.  Curiously, on the forth example, nothing appeared to
happen (no brower window was opened.)

Perhaps syntax may looks like this:

"c:\program files\mozilla.org\mozilla\mozilla.exe" -tabs http://www.mozilla.org
http://www.google.com

Another aspect to consider would be something in line with what Groupwise allows
you to do.  If you are looking at a calendar view that you have tweaked, you can
save that view by right clicking on the window control menu (accessed via
ALT-Space) and dragging that to the desktop.  It creates a shortcut that can be
re-opened.  I'm not sure how this would translate to the Unix and Mac environments.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You can save you complete set of tabbs in a bookmark
Window with 2+ Tabs /Bookmarks/File Bookmark/ File as Group

Isn't that enough ?

BTW: Alays add the build ID in a bug report ...

Comment 2

[Stephen Ostermiller]

I wrote a program that will let me open a set of urls in new tabs from the
command line:
http://ostermiller.org/openmoz/

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

dupe or or dependent on bug 104204?

Comment 4

[Daniel Wang]

-> XP-Apps

Comment 5

[Rob McAuliffe]

Given that I am currently able to call mozilla with a single parameter which is
the file I would like to have opened in the browser, I would like the same to
apply for using multiple parameters, all of which are files/urls to be opened in
separate tabs (obviously depending on the syntax of the current command line -
which I haven't examined).  Basically I would like the following to work in a
*nix environment (including cygwin :-)

mozilla *.html

or

mozilla `cat myurls.txt`

Comment 6

[Daniel Wang]

you can already do that with syntax like: firefox "www.google.com |
www.mozilla.org" (see bug 281114)

resolve as WFM based on original bug description