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Url Pack 1.7.0.0

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TaoPhoenix:
Heh hiya! sometimes it's a brilliant hack that makes an app really sing!

MilesAhead:
Heh hiya! sometimes it's a brilliant hack that makes an app really sing!
-TaoPhoenix (April 14, 2012, 07:44 PM)
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Unfortunately they are usually contained in $500 tool kits.  Can't afford 'em. :)

MilesAhead:
For Firefox this AddOn may be helpful:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/launch-clipboard/

You can copy a bunch of links to the clipboard and launch at once by right clicking in the address bar.  FF already has Open All In Tabs but this would be good for a group not in a bookmark folder. Just copied to clipboard on the fly.

Edit: Now Selector has a Loop Launch check box where  you can accomplish the same thing if it's handy to have a text file full of urls.  Just select a bunch of page addresses, one per line, check Loop Launch button after hitting the Selector hotkey, then select a browser from your list of apps and press the Go Button(or double click the browser in the list.) It's just more "general purpose" than UrlPack.

MilesAhead:
Url Pack 1.4.0.0 Added a separate program that stores the Tray Menu icons. On startup if UrlPack doesn't find all the icons it expects in the working directory(the folder where UrlPack.exe is) it will try to launch UrlPack_IconInst.exe.

This just makes UrlPack.exe a bit smaller. UrlPack_IconInst.exe is only run when needed.  UrlPack.exe sits in the tray.  Seems like to good idea to make it as small as possible short of using exe compression.

Since it only takes a few minutes to create an icon installer I'm going to use this scheme with AHL_L apps that have tray menu icons.

MilesAhead:
I did find when playing around with my Selector app, that chrome, firefox and opera will accept multiple web addresses on the command line.  At least simple ones. https login types may have an issue.  But I just tried loading Firefox via batch with 4 pages while doing a malwarebytes scan to busy the HD. It loaded fairly quickly, considering.

Here's a .vbs script to run the batch file without the telltale command prompt flicker


--- ---Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run "C:\Utils\DoFirefox.cmd", 0
Set WshShell = Nothing

and here's the .cmd batch to open the pages in FF


--- ---start "" "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php http://www.videohelp.com/ http://www.vistax64.com/ http://www.sevenforums.com/

Adjust the paths to suit your system. A few shortcuts with a couple of web page sets may alleviate the need to use a Saved Tab Set.

Just playing around and thought I'd pass it on. :)

edit: If I read the docs right, XP and later the command line should be able to hold a max of 8191 characters, including the program path, switches and all other args such as web addresses or file names.  That should still be enough room to launch quite a few pages out of batch though. I rarely open more than 5, but you should be able to cram a dozen in there. :)

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