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Open many web pages at once via the Terminal
Authored by: peragrin on Feb 01, '05 08:37:13AM

There is an easier way at least for Firefox users.

You can highlight a URL inside firefox(mozilla too) and drag it to the tab bar. Try it. Select and drag the link below to either blank space on the tab bar or to an exsisting tab.

www.macsxhints.com

you don't need to select the HTTP but you can. any url that firefox can open it will do so, ftp, mailto, etc.

As for opening multiple websites from the terminal, why? other than cool? if you have a list of sites in a browser it's far easier to open them in the browser. If it's a text document, you can select copy and drag without ever taking your hand off of the mouse.

Of coure learning how to do cool things from the terminal is always useful. Say opening a bunch of websites when you first start up in the morning.(people actually turn their machines off???)

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Why use the terminal? Easier for opening many URLs.
Authored by: alys on Feb 01, '05 05:47:30PM

Opening multiple URLs in the terminal is far easier than doing it manually in a browser if you have many of them. After about half a dozen, dragging URLs in Firefox becomes tedious.



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Open many web pages at once via the Terminal
Authored by: hschickel on Feb 01, '05 08:17:38PM

Why?

Browser crash (Safari for instance).
30 tabs open...

:(

Restart browser.
Copy history.
pbpaste | xargs open
Off to the races.

:)

Hugh



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