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I have a list of URLs in a text file, for example,

http://url1
http://url2
http://url3

I wonder how to open them each in one tab in Firefox, without the hassel of creating a new tab, copying into address bar and hitting return for each url? Thanks and regards!

My OS is Ubuntu 10.10. Both command line and GUi solutions are welcome.

How about in SeaMonkey instead of Firefox?

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a simple

firefox `cat file.txt`

should suffice

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+1. Thanks! That works! I wonder if you happen to know how to do that in SeaMonkey? I tried seamonkey $(cat urls), but only the url in the first line is opened. – Tim Feb 2 at 17:03
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On windows you can create a batch file (named say, multiurl.bat):

@echo off    
for /F "eol=c tokens=1" %%i in (%1) do "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" %%i

and then run multiurl.bat urls.txt from the command line and it will load the URLS in new tabs if FireFox is already open, or it will run it and then load the URLS.

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You aren't required to create a .bat file to use the for command. – Oliver Salzburg Feb 2 at 16:25
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This is not relevant - the users asks for a solution that will work on Linux machines! – tftd Feb 2 at 16:37
@TheDevil Come on, this answer took longer than three minutes to test and type. I suggest tfitzgerald keeps this answer up, there might be others interested. I sure won't delete my answer for OS X. – Daniel Beck Feb 2 at 17:20
@TheDevil Yes, he edited his question as I was writing my answer. – tfitzgerald Feb 3 at 1:47
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@OliverSalzburg That is correct. But I don't think I said you are required to...but why would you want to type that whole line each time you wanted to do this? That is what scripts are for! – tfitzgerald Feb 3 at 1:48
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You can save the following to a HTML file:

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Open Windows</title>
<script>
function openWindow(){
    var x = document.getElementById('a').value.split('\n');
    for (var i = 0; i < x.length; i++)
        if (x[i].indexOf('.') > 0)
            if (x[i].indexOf('://') < 0)
                window.open('http://'+x[i]);
            else
                window.open(x[i]);
}
</script>
<style>
html, body
{
    height : 99%;
    width  : 99%;
}

textarea
{
    height : 80%;
    width  : 90%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<textarea id="a"></textarea>
<br>
<input type="button" value="Open Windows" onClick="openWindow()">
<input type="button" value="Clear" onClick="document.getElementById('a').value=''">
</body>
</html>

Now load the file in Firefox, copy the list of URLs in the textarea and click Open Windows.

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Hah... I haven't thought 'bout that one! I usually do it with firefox `cat file.txt` (as WakiMiko wrote). Anyway using your way will work on all OS. :D – tftd Feb 2 at 16:39
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Open your text file in firefox as 

file:///C:/URLTextFile.txt
  1. Select the whole link
  2. Right click on it
  3. Click on "Open Link in new tab"
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On Mac OS X, save the following script as openurls.sh, run chmod +x openurls.sh in Terminal, and then type ./openurls.sh from the same directory.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

while read line ; do
    open -a Firefox "$line"
done < "/path/to/file-with-urls.txt"
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+1. Thanks! Do you also know how to do that for SeaMonkey instead of Firefox? – Tim Feb 2 at 16:12
@Tim I don't have SeaMonkey to test it. Also, I'm afraid this script opens windows instead of tabs, sorry about that. – Daniel Beck Feb 2 at 16:16
This can easily be fixed with changing some settings in Firefox. Go to Edit->Preferences->Tabs and select "Open new window in new tab instead" :) – tftd Feb 2 at 16:41
@TheDevil Thanks! I guess it's obvious I only use FF for answering questions on SU. – Daniel Beck Feb 2 at 16:42
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