So my web browser Safari has this option “Open Bookmarks in tabs”. I don’t know how you activate it, but apparently I did. Next thing I know, Safari has opened well over a hundred tabs and is attempting to load well over a hundred different pages at the same time. My whole system goes apeshit and bogs down. I eventually have to force-quit and I lost all my stuff I had open and arranged how I wanted it, hours worth of browsing. Yeah, there’s the global history but I had a bunch of tabs arranged, each with their own history.
I think at some point, be it 10, 50 or 100 bookmarks, it should open a dialog box and ask you if you’re sure you want to open 150 web pages at once. That’s all I have to say.
I have 30 websites in my ‘Webcomics’ (of which 7 are not actually comics), and every time I say ‘open all in tabs’, FF asks me whether I’m sure. Which is good, because sometimes my connection is so slow that I can’t open thirty at once.
By the way, a guy in my CS class wrote a script to display all his webcomics on a single page. I won’t see him until Monday, so can anyone here tell me how to do that?
I love this feature. Like Captain Carrot, I have a Webcomics directory split into all seven days of the week, each folder filled with the comics I read that update on that day. I just navigate to that folder, hit Open In Tabs, and bam, all my webcomics are open to read through. It’s a bitch to maintain, but what a timesaver otherwise.
To the OP, install SafariStand. It remembers the sites you had open when you quit, including their arrangement in tabs. Then, when you restart Safari, it gives you the option of re-opening some or all of them. It has a lot of other nice features, too.
What irks me with Firefox’s open in tabs function for bookmarks is that it half the pages in tabs I already had open. I like to open my blog roll in new tabs, but then it covers up my always open tabs like my work email and my gmail account, as well as anything I was keeping open for any particular reason.
I pretty much do the same thing, except I turned off the option in Firefox to ask me if I’m sure. I love the feature. I click on open folder in tabs and go about the rest of my morning stuff and come back and read the comics at my leisure.
You fellas are doing this all the hard way for your webcomics. Well, webcomics, or any other website you want to watch for regular updates. I use the Google RSS reader incorporated into Google, but really anything else will work.
Essentially, any website worth its salt right now has a “feed” it publishes information to, to let you know if they’ve updated their website. You can subscribe to this feed by just punching the web address into your feed reader (if you don’t like Google Homepage, I suggest the standalone Google Reader). Then, you view your checklist of sorts for what’s been updated and what hasn’t, and go from there. Saves on lots of needless visiting of websites to find there’s nothing new.
I’ve got a few tabs on my Google Homepage, and I guess between them, I’ve got about 5 webcomics, eight or nine blogs, four news sources and five recipe sites, with a few miscellaneous thrown in. I waste a lot less time on the internet now that I can just go to sites I know have new content.
For future reference, you can force quit if something like that happens again. Alternative mode of force quitting is to ctrl+click (or right click if you have a two-button mouse) on the program in the dock and choose force quit from the popup menu. That should get rid of Safari before it eats too many system resources.
ForgetMeNot is a light-weight option to remember windows and tabs. I also use Taboo to give a warning and cancel option when closing a window with multiple tabs, and Pith Helmet, which is the best ad/popup blocker around, even better than AdBlock in Firefox, IMO.
Really? 'Cause I’m a Firefox man myself, but try as I might, I cannot find any option to open all of your favorites at once in IE7, nor is there any mention of it in any help file, FAQ or post that I could find. Could you explain how to do it?