Comments on: One click button to open up multiple tabs at once?

Question: One click button to open up multiple tabs at once?

nam3d — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:21:34 -0800

One click button to open up multiple tabs at once (firefox)?

I have seven websites which I visit each morning to get my daily news. For each section of news (Local, UK, Technology, Business, World, Media, Gossip) I use a different news source.

Here is my current list (make of it what you think).

Local - The News & Star (local newspaper)
UK - The Times
Technology - The Independent
Business - BBC News
World - The New York Times
Media - Media Guardian
Gossip - The Sun

What I would like to do is simply press one button (a simple bookmark) on my Firefox bookmark toolbar and have each website section open up in a new tab.

Is there a way of doing this either by using a Firefox plugin or some coding.

Thanks,

William

By: jclovebrew

jclovebrew — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:25:51 -0800

1. Open each site in a tab
2. Click Bookmarks -> Bookmark all Tabs
3. Type in a name (e.g., "Morning tabs")

Tomorrow morning
1. open the bookmarks menu
2. Expand your newly created bookmark menu
3. Select "Open all in tabs" (last item).

Ta da!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:26:32 -0800

I use an addon called Morning Coffee which pretty much does exactly this. You can also just open all the tabs the way you like them and go to preferences - main and click the "use current pages" button and it will bookmark all seven pages as your "home page" The downside is you'll get these back any time you use the home button. The upside is you'll get them back with one click.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:27:27 -0800

I do this. I have a folder on my bookmarks toolbar marked "dailies" and I right click it, and select "open all in tabs."

By: nam3d

nam3d — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:32:50 -0800

Thanks for the responses so far, I've searched a bit and found out about jclovebrew method and the plugin recommended by jessamyn. Could a script be written so that I can click a bookmark and it opens multiple tabs at once?

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:34:21 -0800

No, no, no.

Tools
->Options
->Startup -> Homepage
List as many websites as you want. Separate with a pipe: |.

http://www.yahoo.com|http://www.metafilter.com|http://ilikesmallchildren.com

Whatever. Make sure you have it set to open your homepage when you start the browser. All set.

By: Kickstart70

Kickstart70 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:42:51 -0800

I do what C.D. suggests...works great.

By: TypographicalError

TypographicalError — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:49:45 -0800

wtildesley: "Thanks for the responses so far, I've searched a bit and found out about jclovebrew method and the plugin recommended by jessamyn. Could a script be written so that I can click a bookmark and it opens multiple tabs at once?"

It's even easier than that: just put all the stuff you want to open in a bookmarks folder on your toolbar and middle-click it.

By: TypographicalError

TypographicalError — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:50:54 -0800

Or actually, you can even middle-click in the bookmarks in your menubar.

By: geekyguy

geekyguy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:00:33 -0800

I do what Civil_Disobediant suggests but haven't used it in forever. Instead, I just have Firefox [Show my windows and tabs from last time] in the Tools/Options Main tab, Startup section.

By: cashman

cashman — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:21:28 -0800

You might want to consider RSS feeds?

By: qvtqht

qvtqht — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:30:12 -0800

Combine what jclovebrew and TypographicalError suggest, and you'll have one button that you middle-click and get the desired result.

By: saffry

saffry — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:59:14 -0800

Thirding C.D., seems like the easiest option. I always have three home pages each morning.

By: Wild_Eep

Wild_Eep — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:19:45 -0800

I know you're looking for FF-specific answers, but if you jump to Safari, this feature is built-in. Safari is available for Windows and Mac OS X.

By: ljesse

ljesse — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:57:19 -0800

List as many websites as you want. Separate with a pipe: |.
and if you don't feel like typing all that in:

open a separate tab for each page > tools> options> Main > use current pages

By: svolix

svolix — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:51:08 -0800

Yup, had the same question a while ago, came to the same solution: Folder in the Bookmarks Toolbar, middle-click.

By: nam3d

nam3d — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:33:13 -0800

thanks for the answers, the middle clicking idea seems to be the best of the bunch - so thanks to jclovebrew and TypographicalError

By: nam3d

nam3d — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:59:01 -0800

For anyone interested they can use this example Javascript bookmarklet and which will open each site in a new tab.

javascript:(function()%7B%20window.open('http://www.example.com/');%20%7D)();
javascript:(function()%7B%20window.open('http://www.example.com/');%20%7D)();
javascript:(function()%7B%20window.open('http://www.example.com/');%20%7D)();
javascript:(function()%7B%20window.open('http://www.example.com/');%20%7D)();

By: Fofer

Fofer — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:04:55 -0800

I tried that javascript, and it opened each site in it's own window, not seperate tabs.