33328 - dump all open urls to clipboard or text file

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XUL, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

It would be nice to have an option to dump the URLs of all open windows into a 
text file.  This would be useful in several situations:

1. Laptop tells you you're low on batteries, but copying each url takes time.
2. Lights go out, but you have a UPS that lasts for one minute.
3. Looking at porn, mom comes home, but you have some good sites open.
4. Browsing during lunch at school, bell rings, want to e-mail URLs to self.

Bookmarking each page (manually or automatically) isn't an ideal solution (see 
#4 and #3), and there's no easy way to delete them.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

I filed two additional RFEs to allow for opening URLs from these text files:
- Bug 33334, hyperlink URLs in *.txt
- Bug 33335, option to "open all links from this page in new windows"

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

-> User Interface: Design Feedback

Gerv

Comment 3

[Brendan Donohoe]

This strikes me as a fringe case that should be very low priority (at least) and
fairly well hidden, if implemented at all.  Keep the clutter count down!

Reassigning to German for comment.

Comment 4

[german]

low/no priority for us. But would be a good add-on feature for somebaody to
develop at mozilla.org. Reassigning to ben for consideration.

Comment 5

[Eli Goldberg]

QA Assigning non-confidential New/Assigned User Interface: Design Feedback bugs 
to Matthew Thomas ([e-mail]).

Matthew Thomas is now the QA owner for the User Interface: Design Feedback 
component. (Bugs that involve UI issues in the Netscape-branded Mozilla browser 
should continue be QA assigned to [e-mail].)

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Adding helpwanted keyword. [e-mail] might like to assign this to 
[e-mail].

Gerv

Comment 7

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Chaning the qa contact on these bugs to me. MPT will be moving to the 
owner of this component shortly. I would like to thank him for all his hard 
work as he moves roles in mozilla.org...Yada, Yada, Yada...

Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 102130, a tabbrowser-specific version of this bug.

Comment 9

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

I like this. I don't see it being added anywhere prominent, but maybe part of 
the bookmarks manager. 

Comment 10

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 159853, "Tab Manager (list of tabs and windows)".

Comment 11

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

I think this would be better served by an extension, although it might make
sense for the "copy" command of a bookmark group to copy the uris of the
contained bookmarks to the clipboard as the textual representation, or in the
case of drag and drop, dragging same.

Comment 12

[Robin Monks]

Moving to core->XP Toolkit/Widgets...

Comment 13

[Lenny Domnitser]

The Bookmark All Tabs command does this.

Comment 14

[Cees T.]

Session Manager (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2324/) can export an open session to a new file. You can use Nightly Tester Tools (http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/nightly) to make it work in Firefox 2.0. It also auto-saves your session, so you can just close the browser.

You may also wish to try http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

Comment 15

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

As noted in comment 13, Bookmark All Tabs covers these use cases
for the most part.  Other than that, it seems more like an add-on
feature than something that needs to be supported in the browser.