Re: Bookmarking all tabs of front browser

Chad Armstrong <[email protected]> Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:05:21 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.omniweb
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Add my vote to this as a new feature for OmniWeb.

I have had several instances where I wanted to easily bookmark a bunch =20=

of open tabs, or even drag them into a folder in my Favorites bar.  =20
This would be useful when doing research on a particular topic (job =20
search, programming topics, etc.).

Regards,

Chad


> Is there still no way to bookmark all the tabs of
> the front browser, collecting them into a folder?
> I do use workspaces a lot, but still end up
> wanting to save a bunch of bookmarks. For
> instance, I was working with sqlite3 the other
> day and had a dozen or so pages from the
> documentation open in one browser. When I was
> finished I wanted to save them in a folder. I
> don't necessarily want it in a workspace, because
> I was using them in other workspaces. And I'd
> rather have them saved explicitly so I could move
> them around, copy them to other browsers, etc.
> This has become a fairly standard feature of
> other browsers, and it really should be part of
> OmniWeb.
>
> An AppleScript solution currently would not work
> because the only way I know to get the title of a
> tab is to make it active, so collecting names and
> bookmarks of the tabs involves doing
> 	-- fldr is a new or selected bookmark
> folder from elsewhere in the script
> 	repeat with tb in tabs of the front browser
> 		set the active tab of the front browser to tb
> 		make new bookmark at end of fldr =AC
> 			with properties =AC
> 			{address:(the address of theBrowser) as Unicode =
text, =AC
> 			name:(the name of theBrowser) as Unicode text}
> 	end repeat
>
> and "set the active tab" is broken (still or again).