On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:45:45 -0400 (EDT)
Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Eben King wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Paul M Foster wrote:
> >
> >> Your problem is 100 tabs. It may not have been so problematic
> >> before, but you hit a site that really hits the limit for your
> >> browser/memory/cpu. Or the particular combination of daemons and
> >> programs you're running and sites you're visiting happened to hit
> >> the limit. I was using my browser the other day with about ten
> >> tabs and CPU was about 5-10%. Then I went to a site with a marquee
> >> on it (scrolling message). Usage jumped to about 80-90% until I
> >> dumped that tab.
> >
> > I've seen that. And since FF isn't threaded you can't narrow down
> > the offending window by suspending each thread in turn until the
> > load drops and then seeing which window is nonresponsive.
> >
> > I would love to ditch some tabs. Is there a way to get a list of
> > all open URLs, so I can start from "no tabs" and go upward if
> > needed and not lose data?
>
> OK, I found a file that has the information:
>
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/********.default/sessionstore.js
>
> Can anyone identify the language or delimiting characters, or come up
> with a string of commands that parses it? Here's an excerpt:
>
> ({windows:[{tabs:[{entries:[{url:"http://www.wehaitians.com/bad%20seed%2
> 0or%20bad%20science.html", title:"Bad Seed or Bad Science?",
> ID:22322390 23, scroll:"0,0"}], index:1},
> {entries:[{url:"http://www.frik-n-frak.com /", title:"Tavern Puzzles,
> Wooden Puzzles, Secret Puzzle Boxes, Brain Te asers, Mind Benders,
> Intriguing Metal Puzzles and fine quality Jewelry B oxes and Gifts at
> Frik-n-Frak.com", ID:2222012835}, {url:"http://www.fri
> k-n-frak.com/Japanese-Puzzle-Boxes_c_123.html", title:"Japanese
> Puzzle B oxes, Himitsu-Bako, Trick Boxes", ID:2222012836,
> scroll:"0,285"}], index :2}], selected:2,
> _closedTabs:[{state:{entries:[{url:"http://www.ebay.co m/?_js=OFF",
> title:"eBay - New & used electronics, cars, apparel, collec tibles,
> sporting goods & more at low prices", ID:9052, children:[{url:"h
> ttp://pages.ebay.com/rtm_default/220.html", ID:9053},
> {url:"http://pages .ebay.com/rtm_default/221.html", ID:9054},
> {url:"http://pages.ebay.com/r tm_default/222.html", ID:9055},
> {url:"http://pages.ebay.com/rtm_default/ 223.html", ID:9056},
> {url:"http://pages.ebay.com/rtm_default/224.html", ID:9057}]},
> {url:"http://shop.ebay.com/ebayadvsearch/", title:"eBay Sear ch:
> Advanced Search", ID:9058, children:[{url:"about:blank", ID:9063, ow
> ner_b64:"NhAra3tiRRqhyKDUVsktxQAAAAAAAAAAwAAAAAAAAEYAAQAAAAAAAd6UctCANBH
> Tk5kAEEug/UAHoizADOUR05MxABBLoP1AAAAAAv////8AAABQAQAAACNodHRwOi8vc2hvcC5
> lYmF5LmNvbS9lYmF5YWR2c2VhcmNoLwAAAAAAAAAEAAAABwAAAA0AAAAH/////wAAAAf//// /AAAABwAAAA0AAAAUAAAADwAAABQAAAAPAAAAFAAAAA8AAAAjAAAAAAAAACP/////AAAAFP/ ///8AAAAU/////wAAABT/////AQAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAA=="}]},
> {url:"http://shop.eba
> y.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p4110.m38.l1313&_nkw=laserjet+%284100%2C+4100N%
>
> Line breaks are few and far between in that file.
>
That is JSON, a form of Javascript object literal. You could pull out
everything with "http..." to get all the urls. There is also a
"Bookmark All Tabs" function under the bookmarks menu. This will create
a bookmark folder with all your open pages in there.
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