On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Shawn J. Goff wrote:
> 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:
[snip]
>> 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.
Yeah, there's over 3000 of them. It includes each tab's history. I thought
of parsing the file programmatically enough to extract them that way.
> 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.
Good, I'll see if that works. It might require that the tabs be loaded
before it bookmarks them, which puts me back where I started. Wait, does
that only apply to the tabs in that window? I suspect it does. Don't
suppose it has a hotkey...
It crashed during loading before I went to bed last night.
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