README for qft
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I do my hacking from the command line. I run tests from the command
line, I lauch Google searches from the command line, I grep code from
the command line.
I often need to scan some reference docs, such as CSS selector syntax or Capistrano options.
Sometimes I just let Google go find stuff, but I started assembling sets of Firefox bookmarks for
various developer tasks. So I may have a bookmarks set for HTML/CSS, and another for Ruby development,
and another for Linux sysadmin.
Firefox has two very nice features regarding collections of pages. One is that you can order bookmarks into
subfolders and then ask Firefox to open all of those bookmarks as tabbed pages in a single brower window.
The other is that you can give Firefox a pipe-delimited string of URLs, and it will open each of those URLs in browser tab.
With the latter feature you can lauch Firefox from the command line and pass it multiple URLs at once. I wanted this
same effect for my bookmark sets: Open a pre-defined collection of pages in a tabbed window, from the command line.
Qtf (Quick Firefox tabs) is such a command line app. You call it with the name of a bookmark folder, and it
will grab thoses URLs and open up a tabbed browser instance.
For more details please see
http://www.jamesbritt.com/2007/4/27/quick-firefox-tabs
James Britt, 2007
[email protected]
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I do my hacking from the command line. I run tests from the command
line, I lauch Google searches from the command line, I grep code from
the command line.
I often need to scan some reference docs, such as CSS selector syntax or Capistrano options.
Sometimes I just let Google go find stuff, but I started assembling sets of Firefox bookmarks for
various developer tasks. So I may have a bookmarks set for HTML/CSS, and another for Ruby development,
and another for Linux sysadmin.
Firefox has two very nice features regarding collections of pages. One is that you can order bookmarks into
subfolders and then ask Firefox to open all of those bookmarks as tabbed pages in a single brower window.
The other is that you can give Firefox a pipe-delimited string of URLs, and it will open each of those URLs in browser tab.
With the latter feature you can lauch Firefox from the command line and pass it multiple URLs at once. I wanted this
same effect for my bookmark sets: Open a pre-defined collection of pages in a tabbed window, from the command line.
Qtf (Quick Firefox tabs) is such a command line app. You call it with the name of a bookmark folder, and it
will grab thoses URLs and open up a tabbed browser instance.
For more details please see
http://www.jamesbritt.com/2007/4/27/quick-firefox-tabs
James Britt, 2007
[email protected]