655627 - open a group of links all at once from a text file

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Guilherme Bohnert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

Would be nice to open groups of links in firefox, for example, i've got a txt file with alot of likns inside, will be nice to paste them on firefox and open them all :P

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. I need to open the links separatelly.
2. Would be nice to open all quickly.

Actual Results:  
I need to open alot of links in the same time.

Expected Results:  
I'll love to open all those links without copy/paste them all on a new tab.

Please do it and i give you cookies.

Comment 1

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

You can already do this from a bookmark folder - bookmark all the links you want to be able to open as a group in a folder, and then right click the folder and open all in tabs.

If you are starting from a text file of links, prefix each line with firefox --new-tab so that you end up with a list like:
firefox --new-tab http://www.mozilla.com
firefox --new-tab http://www.google.com
firefox --new-tab http://bugzilla.mozilla.org

(Hint, a quick search and replace on a text file can easily make such a list.)

Comment 2

[Mardeg]

Attachment: Example plain text address list

I've added a bookmarklet into the URL field of this bug, you can drag that directly to your bookmarks toolbar to be clicked on when in Firefox you are viewing a .txt file of addresses (such as the attached example) and have selected multiple lines on the page.

Note: The addresses will only open in new tabs instead of new windows if you have changed the value of the preference named
browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction
in about:config to 0

If you set a keyword in the properties of the bookmarklet, you can invoke it from the addressbar using that keyword and pasting multiple lines of addresses from your clipboard after it (Firefox automatically concatenates them together).

If nothing on a webpage of links is selected when you click the bookmarklet, it will prompt you to paste in addresses from your clipboard (again it will concatentate multiple lines into one).
The code could probably be improved, but I thought you could benefit from this quick workaround immediately :)

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Sounds like a perfect candidate for the extension land or a bookmarklet as given in the last comment.

Comment 4

[Guilherme Bohnert]

This will be nice to be done without adding the links to the bookmark, just paste them all on the url field, the program will do the work for open them all on new tabs :P 
Can be use them too, on the download manager, to paste a group of links and start download them all...

Comment 5

[Philip Chee]

> Sounds like a perfect candidate for the extension land or a bookmarklet as
> given in the last comment.
And that extension exists and is called Linky.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/linky/

Comment 6

[Palmer Eldritch]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/launch-clipboard/
Perfection

Comment 7

[Sherri Ables]

Attachment: sahosisea19897297.txt

Thanks from guigimorac1978.