Opening lots of URL's in Firefox

[Rostum]

Is there anyway to open a lot of URL's in one Firefox window (through tabs)?

I have a long list of URL's in an excel format (all in column A), and would like to open them all at once -- is this possible?

[Dr Unne]

If you open too many URLs in Firefox at once you will probably crash it. But anyways.

1. You can do it via a command line. If you were on Windows, Start Menu => Run => type "cmd.exe" => type:

<pre>"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" http://google.com http://eyesonff.com http://whatever.com</pre>
They will open in tabs. You can copy/paste the list of URLs onto the command line to avoid typing.

2. If you make a bookmarks folder, and make a bookmark for each URL and put it into that folder, you can middle-click the folder and open all bookmarks at once in tabs. If these URLs are ones you'll have to re-visit many times, this may be a good option.

[crono_logical]

I don't usually have problems with firefox with 70-100 tabs open at once

[Momiji]

I don't usually have problems with firefox with 70-100 tabs open at once

It isn't the massive amount of tabs that worries me.

What worries me is what may be on some of those tabs.

[o_O]

As long as they aren't loading up videos or CPU-intensive scripts in every tab (and that there aren't thousands ) I don't think there would be a huge problem. It would be very easy to write a program to parse the URL and execute the command to open them.

[Roto13]

Upgrade ur rams

What I do when I have a long list of URLs I want open at the same time uses this very site. :P I make a new post, copy and paste the URLs into it, hit preview (cause Post will confuse people) and middle click each one. That might be a pain in the ass if there are too many, but if there are too many it's probably not a good idea to open them all at once anyway. xP

[Rostum]

Thanks for that guys! I have 270 or so tabs open and it runs fine (a lot have flash scripts, too).



(Btw, it's for a mind numbingly boring database entry job, but at least I'm getting paid a lot per hour for it!)

Edit: Imagine how screwed you'd be if you opened 300 MySpace pages at once. XD