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Determine which tab in Firefox is using CPU resources?
Resource usage can be monitored with Task Manager (the about:performance page) or Process Manager (the about:processes page). The latter has a shortcut Shift+Esc.
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How to get tab count in Chrome desktop without app/extension?
(Note: This answer was provided using Chrome version 45)
By navigating to chrome://inspect/#pages, one can view a list of all open pages (tabs):
Each entry includes a link below it with the text "...
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Is there a way to copy URLs from all open tabs in a Google Chrome (or other browser) window into an email?
Chrome, version 40 (without an extension):
NOTE: This method saves all open tabs as bookmarks in a new folder, which can then be deleted.
Press Ctrl + Shift + d on Windows/Linux or ⌘ + Shift + d ...
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How can I transfer all of my open tabs in Chrome in Android to Chrome on a desktop?
Use Tabs from other devices on the left of History (you can go straight to chrome://history/syncedTabs), click on Open all in menu (⋮) on the right.
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How can I transfer all of my open tabs in Chrome in Android to Chrome on a desktop?
A somewhat working solution is found here:
https://dev.to/piczmar_0/when-you-never-close-tabs-on-your-mobile-chrome-browser-2boj
I wonder if it preserves the order of the open tabs, this is crucial ...
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How to easily transfer tabs from one PC to another?
Open the History tab: you can use Command+y on Mac (I guess that Super+y on Linux/BSD and Win)
On the left side you should see "Tabs from other devices" -- click it
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How to get tab count in Chrome desktop without app/extension?
While jsejcksn's answer led me in the right direction, it wasn't enough, since (on Chrome version 67) this page also contains embedded windows in pages, so the total count of inspect search results ...
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How to Make Chrome Not Load Tabs Until They are Selected?
At the time of this writing, Chrome does not support this functionality natively. I've been using The Great Suspender, an extension that adds similar functionality to Chrome.
You can verify the ...
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How to change behavior of ctrl+t in Firefox to open new tabs next to current tab
As of Firefox 61 this behavior is available natively:
Navigate to about:config
Find the browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent row
Toggle it to true by double-clicking the row
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Stop Chrome from reloading tabs
What helped as a general solution for all tabs for me:
you can turn this off by going to "chrome://flags/" and selecting "Disabled" under "Enable tab discarding "
(taken from https://www.reddit.com/...
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How can I transfer all of my open tabs in Chrome in Android to Chrome on a desktop?
The only workaround (if you can even call it that) is refreshing the tabs on my phone, one by one. Then they appear on my desktop. This isn't viable when you have hundreds of open tabs on the phone.
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How to merge 2 windows in Firefox
Easiest might be just to drag-and-drop tabs from one instance of Firefox onto the other. That gives you control of which tabs to move and in what order they appear.
A multiple tab selection feature ...
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Is it possible to open all Chrome windows and tabs from another computer?
Make sure sync is enabled on both devices.
On your new device, open chrome and open the history (CTRL+H on windows). On the left-side there is an option for Tabs from other devices and clicking on it ...
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How to Make Chrome Not Load Tabs Until They are Selected?
Since Chrome 54 (Oct 2016) this feature is supported in Chrome natively, so previous bloated extensions are not that needed. A GNU GPLv3 licensed extension Native Lazy Tabs extension works and it is ...
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How do I search page titles of open tabs in Firefox natively?
Yes, this is possible natively in Firefox.
In the address bar, simply prepend your search term with a % sign followed by a space:
% intel
Productivity geeks like myself can speed up this whole ...
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Why does CTRL-click not open some links in a new tab?
I wrote a Firefox add-on (boringly) named link-fixer to fix this. You can install from addons.mozilla.org. It requires Firefox 48.0 or later.
Quoting myself:
The default behaviour of ctrl+click, ...
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How to open multiple URLs in Chrome/Firefox and then save them individually?
Opening the URLs in tabs can be done just pasting in a console prompt cmd your URLs like this.
start chrome http://yoururls/foo.html &
start chrome http://yoururls/bar.html &
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Why does CTRL-click not open some links in a new tab?
JavaScript behind the scenes
This happens when developers of such web pages intercept mouse clicks with JavaScript and do asynchronous network requests inside the interceptor, potentially to track ...
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Keyboard shortcut to open new tab next to current tab in Google Chrome
I ended up installing the Duplicate Tab Shortcut extension, which allows me to use shift+option+d to duplicate the current tab and the duplicated tab appears to the immediate right of the previous tab....
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Keyboard shortcut to open new tab next to current tab in Google Chrome
If you're on MacOS, this is doable via OS settings. MacOS is super helpful for app-specific keyboard shortcuts as long as the action appears in the app menu.
On latest Chrome (Feb 2022), I see these 2 ...
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Stop Chrome from reloading tabs
From information written on Chromium OS site (which applies to the Chrome browser as well) here, it says that the tabs are getting "hibernated" because your device is getting low on memory.
It ...
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How to easily transfer tabs from one PC to another?
On the source machine:
Right click on a tab, and select "Bookmark all tabs..."
Enter a name for the new folder that will be created containing a bookmark for each open tab
Pick a location in your ...
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List open Firefox tabs from the command line?
The format in latest versions is JSON compressed with LZ4 + a magic header (mozLz40\0).
This small python script will print tabs:
https://gist.github.com/tmonjalo/33c4402b0d35f1233020bf427b5539fa
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How to Make Chrome Not Load Tabs Until They are Selected?
Without any extensions it's possible to prevent loading tabs by disconnecting the internet when you start Chrome. Chrome will eventually give up trying to load the pages, and one-by-one tabs will gray ...
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Keyboard shortcut to open new tab next to current tab in Google Chrome
It looks like I've found a solution.
This blog post from August 26, 2011 describes how to open the next tab using the built-in browser tools.
Here is a quote from there (with small edits):
Go ...
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How can I find out which tab sound is coming from?
I normally have numerous windows and tabs open and looking for a tab by the sound icon is a time consuming case of 'where is waldo'.
It's not a perfect solution but using the built in 'Task Manager' ...
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How to Make Chrome Not Load Tabs Until They are Selected?
As of version 44 (currently dev branch), after a restart Chrome only loads tabs when they are first selected. It doesn't even start a process for the tabs until they are loaded, so that means less ...
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Is there a method to export the URLs of the open tabs of a Firefox window?
An open source plugin to do the job: Copy as Markdown. Added benefits: works on both Firefox and Chrome, and it exports with Markdown formatting.
Copy as Markdown for Chrome & Firefox
Do ...
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Changing Firefox Tab Cycle Order
Firefox v50 now has this as an option in Settings, no add-ons or about:config hacking required:
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Disable/enable the proxy on a tab by tab basis in Firefox
I recently discover this FireFox extension that might work for you:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-proxy/
this seems to allow you to configure a proxy per-container and you ...
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