Copy All Tabs

A Firefox Add-on that takes the address and title for each tab and creates a text list of links. The list is copied to your clipboard so you can paste it to notes. You can also open tabs from a previously saved list of links.

This Add-on is available for Firefox here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-all-tabs/?src=api

The extension is open source software. Source code is available here: https://github.com/charlesbrandt/copy_all_tabs

This Add-on is similar in functionality to Copy All Urls on Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/copy-all-urls/djdmadneanknadilpjiknlnanaolmbfk?hl=en

Pull requests are welcome!

Development Process

Documentation for creating an extension has improved over the years.

https://extensionworkshop.com/

The WebExtensions API is required in Firefox

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions

Generally, following along with a "getting started" guide helps:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Your_first_WebExtension

Installing

Open "about:debugging" in Firefox, click "This Firefox", click "Load Temporary Add-on" and select any file in your extension's directory

When getting started with a custom extension manifest.json, I received:

There was an error during installation: Extension is invalid

Check that the manifest.json is valid. In my case, I wasn't providing all parameters for the content_scripts option. Subtract and re-add elements until it passes to hone in on the part with a problem.

Click Inspect -> Console to see logging output

Reminder: Actions taken on Firefox about:* pages will not have any console output. Test with other tabs.

Web-ext

An alternative way to run an extension for development

npm install --global web-ext

For notes on using web-ext (but remember,

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Getting_started_with_web-ext

I find loading in "about:debugging" is sufficient and easier

Permissions

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/permissions#Clipboard_access

Publishing

Remember to:

• comment out any console statements added during development before zipping up.

• increment the version number in manifest.json

  cd copy_all_tabs/src zip -r -FS ../copy-all-tabs.zip *

Log in and publish zip file.

History

0.0.9 Version 0.0.9 provides a custom output setting in the settings panel to customize the way tab links are copied to the clipboard.

This add-on is inspired by old add-on called CopyAllUrls (http://www.plasser.net/copyallurls/). I used that add-on for many years with Firefox (Thank you, Jürgen!).

The current version has been updated to use the Web Extension API. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions

It is loosely based on the structure of the example "tabs, tabs, tabs" extension. https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/

Previous versions used Firefox's Add-ons SDK: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK

Functionality in the old version was available via the context menu. Right-click on a page to find "Copy Tabs" and "Paste Tabs".

Alternatives

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxytab/?src=featured Not open source?