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Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs by rsync on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @10:58AM (#28129639)
Why can't we just have:

about:tabs

... which would be a plain text listing of all the URLs of all the tabs you have open ?

You could just copy and paste it to a file or whatever. No fancy bookmarking scheme needed.

Instead, we need to dig several directories deep into /Library (or whatever, depending on your OS) and then use JSON tools to export ... I've already lost most people.

Go search for "how can I export tabs" or "how can I save tab urls" and you'll see thousands of people trying (usually in vain) to achieve this very, very simple thing.

EDIT: No, I don't want to install an extension to do this.

Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs by piceas on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @12:01PM (#28143727)
Share to Dropbox effectively has this behaviour and works pretty well for me from mobile. I only access a fraction of the links but it's fast easy and not reliant on browsers or plugins.

I'm occasionally tempted to modify Syncthing to have the same behaviour.

On desktop I mostly don't bookmark. The site is saved to pdf/screenshot png of the relevant content.

Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs by Scarbutt on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:54AM (#28130380)
Chrome has this now, not exactly about:tabs but a button to list all open tabs.
Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs by wly_cdgr on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:00AM (#28129673)
I get not wanting to install a third party extension just for this, but it would be a simple weekend project to write one to do this yourself (and install it locally to avoid the extension store shitshow)
Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs by rsync on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:14AM (#28129829)
rsync.net will pay USD $500 for about:tabs to exist in mainline firefox with no extension required.

It couldn't be simpler - you type about:tabs into the URL bar and you get a non-html plain text listing, one URL per line, of all the tabs you have open. Maybe a line break inbetween browser windows so you can tell tabs from one window apart from tabs in another ?

Just email [email protected] to claim this.

Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs by zamadatix on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @12:40PM (#28130999)
Unless Mozilla has already approved the concept the bounty is unlikely to get claimed. $500 isn't worth trying to get it merged let alone the risk they just flat so no the the page.
Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs by conceptualspace on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:09AM (#28129784)
i made one and it supports mobile. it's also open source :)

https://github.com/conceptualspace/tablist

Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs by rsync on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:15AM (#28129843)
Great.

Get it into mainline firefox and please take our money (see above).

Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs by rustyminnow on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @05:02PM (#28134472)
What is the extension store shitshow?

I have a couple of personal extensions in the store but haven't really used it much. Just wondering what your experience is