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If I have a Firefox window open that contains 10 tabs, is there a way in Firefox or by a plug-in to get the URLs of those 10 tabs as a text file or some other format?

Right now if I want to do this I need to copy the URL of tab A, paste it somewhere, move to tab B, and repeat. I could also bookmark all the tabs into a folder and export that, but that seems like such a hassle.

If there is no such method, could someone point me to some documents that describe the basics of writing a Firefox plug-in. I am willing to write this myself if there is no "standard" way.

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The dupe has been deleted, for people wanting to close it as such :) – Ivo Flipse♦ Jan 18 '10 at 9:52
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I found an add-on called Send Tab URLs that copies the URLs of all open tabs with the intention of sending them by email to someone. This add-on also allows the target of the URLs to be the clipboard as well as email so this solves my problem 100%.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4437

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No need to export anything.

Just save all the tabs in a folder (you already know how to do that), right click on folder, copy. Open notepad, paste. Voila. All URL's of bookmarks in that folder.

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Yes, that does work, but I was thinking more along the lines of having an option in a plug-in menu or the context menu that would put the URLs into my clipboard. Then I won't have to create, view, and delete intermediate bookmark folders. – hekevintran Jan 17 '10 at 2:36
Sorry, don't know of any plugin which would do that. It is a rather unusual request (I still can't see why do you need something like that...). Anyways, you got one way now ... this one takes about 6 clicks ... the fastest I know, sorry. – ldigas Jan 17 '10 at 2:53
Right click on tab, bookmark all tabs, ok, right click on dir, copy ... url's are in clipboard ... 5 clicks. – ldigas Jan 17 '10 at 2:53
Yeah you are right about it's unusualness. I think I'm going to look up references on writing Firefox plug-ins. I want it to be 2 clicks dammit! Thanks though. – hekevintran Jan 17 '10 at 2:59
This may help you :: stackoverflow.com/questions/24772/… | You still haven't told what do you need something like that for ? ;) – ldigas Jan 17 '10 at 3:16
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Here's a reason for saving tabs: I just resolved an issue by resetting FF settings to default. One of the default settings is to open just the home tab instead of reopening all the tabs from the previous session. Before yesterday I had 100 tabs open. I lost them all. Granted, they are in the history file, but there were 100 of them and some were opened about a year ago. I'm in my second day of trying to restore them.

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You might want to consider a similar add-on with different options, CopyAllURLs; especially if mailing is not a priority. -Isn't that 2 clicks ? It's in the context menu. [That linked page also lists 'alternative solutions']

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