What’s the fastest way to start many webpages simultaneously?

November 16, 2006 at 5:56 pm

Since I have all my tools on the web, I want to simplify the way I start them. For example, when I sit down in front of my computer I open up Firefox and then I manually create a tab for each “web application” by either writing the address or open up the bookmark. Now, how can I make this more efficient? Any tools? Any tips? Please answer this poll and comment with your suggestions.

How do you open up several websites in an easy way?

Comments: 12 Responses (Comments RSS)

John Wilson

Thursday, November 16th, 2006 at 6:17 pm

Both IE7 & Firefox let you set multiple tabs as your “home page”, so when I launch either browser, all my online apps open up in separate tabs.

Chris

Thursday, November 16th, 2006 at 7:13 pm

Yea, what John said… I have all my G-essentials open when I start Firefox.
A useful extension to go along with tabs that are always open (like Gmail) is “Faviconize Tab”: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3780/
It gets rid of the text on a tab and just leaves the icon so it takes up less space on the tab bar. Not as useful for sites with no favicon or nondescript ones.

Jay

Thursday, November 16th, 2006 at 7:36 pm

I use delicious and the extension for firefox. Just tag your webapps you want to open in one go as “go” (or any other tag name) and then choose “open in tabs” in the “go” tabs view of the delicious extension. Easy as that ;-)

Sean Feeney

Thursday, November 16th, 2006 at 7:51 pm

I used to use Firefox Add-on “SessionSaver”. It hasn’t been upgraded for 2.0 yet but will be any day now… https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/436/

You can save multiple tab profiles which when opened will open all of the sites in tabs at once. Very useful for web workers.

mel my finger

Thursday, November 16th, 2006 at 9:30 pm

If you use Firefox, you can set multiple sites as your homepage. Like this:

http://www.google.com/ | http://www.myuninstalledlife.com | http://digg.com

Whenever you hit the Home button, these sites will load up in seperate tabs.

Cyril

Thursday, November 16th, 2006 at 10:45 pm

I use these days FaviconizeTab + PermaTab.
But I like also the idea of Jay; del.icio.us Bookmarks extension + using a “mywebapps” tag ( don’t forget to add it in the ‘Favorite Tags’ of the extension) is an interesting solution. Sadly, the del.icio.us Bookmarks extension ‘replaces the Bookmarks toolbar but I resolved the issue with a ‘Bookmarklets’ tag for my ‘cellsea’, etc. bookmarklets.

Cyril

Thursday, November 16th, 2006 at 11:04 pm

@Sean: I’ve just seen on the comments of ‘Session Saver’ that an
unofficial patch for FireFox 2.0 is available.

ZivP

Thursday, November 16th, 2006 at 11:56 pm

The fox’s �SessionSaver� is my way too.
The fox also allows opening a directory grom the favorits in tabs, that can be useful.

George

Friday, November 17th, 2006 at 11:33 am

I’m not sure if your second option is what i’m going to write about, but easy way to organize multi page load is bookmark pages in certain bookmark manager folders, and then opening the pages using right click in bookmark manager (on a certain folder) >> open in tabs.

Daniel

Saturday, November 18th, 2006 at 3:12 pm

For Firefox 2.0: from the Tools menu select Options, under “Main/Startup/When Firefox Starts” select “Show my windows and tabs from last time”.

For Internet Explorer, I use Avant Browser which is a wrapper for IE allowing to save previously opened pages: from the Tools menu select Avant Browser Options, under “Exiting” select “Automatically save all opened pages when exiting”

Daniel

Sunday, November 19th, 2006 at 3:50 pm

For Firefox 2.0: only now I discovered that the “pages from last time” are a cached copy… so it’s better the first suggestion (first comment)…

iiis

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006 at 1:08 pm

in firefox

add a folders to:

Bookmarks Toolbar Folder

add bookmarks

click: open all in tabs

sip on some liquids.

bloom, b.

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