WikifyTabs
This weekend I took a bit of time out of my busy schedule of barbecuing and hiking among the rocks to write a little extension. A visiting friend asked if there was an easy way to get a list of the currently open tabs to enter in a wiki page. I tried various “bookmark all tabs” and export options but nothing seemed to fit the bill.
Enter WikifyTabs! It does just what we were looking for, creates a blank page and dumps the currently open tabs into it in MediaWiki markup. Pretty simple, but kind of useful. It also fits in with some of the ongoing discussion on Planet right now about how to improve the display and access of tabs. (Aside: I still love ctrl-tab, even though it might get changed before the final version of Firefox 3.1). Imagine a similar list of tabs with functional links in an about:tabs page. I may add that to the extension. Other possible additions include options to produce different types of code or markup, context menus in text areas to insert directly and copying wikified or bbcode links directly from the tab bar to the clipboard.
Oh, and I used Firebug 1.2.0 to help debug my extension. It was finished up by John Barton, Jan Odvarko and a cast of … several others this weekend. We released the final version yesterday and updates should be available through AMO. If you run into any problems, please file an issue on the google code page.
(I would be remiss in not sending special thanks to JOEDREW!, dria, gavin and yes, even kev for helpful grammar debugging of my early morning post)
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