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SOLVED: URGENT REQUEST: browser meta searching with custom entries.

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mouser:
Just as an example, there's a built in alias in FARR called "define", which basically defines a number of web searches for a word you type.

Type "define urgent" and you'll see this:


Now if you hit Enter it will open the FIRST result -- or you can trigger the individual results you want.

Or -- and this is what you asked for - you can hit Ctrl+Alt+Enter to open ALL results at once (which in your browser should open each in it's own tab).

dcsev:
UPDATE: mouser, there is a problem with that method.

I will be having several "meta aliases".

For example, I'll have one for eBooks, music, movies, anime,  etc.. About 7 of them. Your method won't work for more than 1 alias right? Or will it?

mouser:
The define alias is in the Core_Aliases\Core-Linguistics.alias if you want to see what it looks like to learn how to make a similar one:



Note: It may not make a difference these days, but internet urls should probably use $$u1 instead of $$1, since $$u1 will fix up any spaces and quotes, etc.

Note 2: If you want to make an alias to do what you want and share it with others, check out some of the alias zip files that others have shared on the forum, like one of my favorite ones, for tracking packages: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=11333.0  -- doing so will let you create some icons as well, to make it more enjoyable for people to use the alias.

dcsev:
Just as an example, there's a built in alias in FARR called "define", which basically defines a number of web searches for a word you type.

Type "define urgent" and you'll see this: (see attachment in previous post)
Now if you hit Enter it will open the FIRST result -- or you can trigger the individual results you want.

Or -- and this is what you asked for - you can hit Ctrl+Alt+Enter to open ALL results at once (which in your browser should open each in it's own tab).
-mouser (December 25, 2013, 08:06 PM)
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mouser,

This works, but it is painfully slow!!!.  For some reason, it takes roughly 5 seconds (measured it with stopwatch) for each entry to appear (browser window popup). Some of the entries will have about 20 metasearches which makes it really painful to search. I couldn't find a setting that said "wait 5 seconds before launching each page".  This is in the latest version of Chrome (Version 31.0.1650.63 m).

Why doesn't it just launch them all at once, rapidly? I am forced to force-kill FARR to get it to stop opening 25 aliases at 5 seconds a pop :D

mouser:
That's a good question -- i think it's probably Chrome itself that's to blame for this -- that is, if you make a batch file 10 entries for to open chrome and open each url, the result will be the same.

I don't know if there's a better way to tell chrome (or another browsers) to open up a list of urls using a 3rd party tool.  The only way to do it MIGHT be by using a chrome-specific addon for this -- which i'll bet you can find if you look around.

Let me know if you can find a 3rd party tool that can open up multiple tabs in a browser quickly.

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