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ghost

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Registered: 2011-11-10

Posts: 44

Scripting Firefox Windows from the outside

Are any people here with experience in Firefox?

For the main Problem just read the last lines

I'm always improving my experience in my Desktop Environment.

Since an half year I'm using a dynamic tiling manager.
My current setup is sorted by process, one view for browser, one terminal, one pdf...

But in reality it doesn't fit to my usage.

So I want to build my own 'Environment'.
It should be based around Tasks and Projects I work on:
for Example:
   For every Course I visit there would be an own project which consists of:
     an directory, with TODO text file, an own git repository, some open pdf documents, and also gvim with  documents I'm working on
     and also there should be a browser with some saved tabs

A project is configurable and can start different applications, the saving of states in applications is in most times easy (pdf&gvim)

But I really don't know, how I should script the Browser, so that I can save the tabs of one window.
There are 2 possibilities:
* An own Browser Session for each project (easy)
* Extending the Browser in some way, to have one shared session

I would prefer the second version.

I already read some Firefox Documentation but I don't really  have an Idea where I have to look, to write such an Extension.
I also found MozRepl where it is possible to script Firefox over telnet.

Are there any good places to look for Documentation

Earnestly

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Registered: 2011-08-18

Posts: 805

Re: Scripting Firefox Windows from the outside

firefox -ProfileManager

?

Last edited by Earnestly (2012-02-02 23:06:43)

Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 1,011

Re: Scripting Firefox Windows from the outside

I might have mis-interpreted your post, so I'll just give them both:

Browser:  One word:  Pentadactyl.

WM:  You could do such a thing with [Herbstluftwm].  You can create custom tiling layouts and also tell it via rules exactly in which frames it should place your windows.  If you write a script, you could make a layout manager for it that will remember your layout and the positioning of windows in the frames.

Last edited by Wintervenom (2012-02-03 07:40:23)