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blankmonkey

6:18 pm on Oct 9, 2014 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hello all, it has been some time since I posted, but you guys have been great!

So I have been using a fix I got from here for a long time. On my personal website, I click one button and it opens 50+ tabs for my morning reading (comics, news, tech sites, ect..)
It works great (only in Firefox, I have tried others), and uses this;

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function subWin(pg) {
var SW; window.open(pg);
}

// location=0,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,status=0,menubar=0,toolbar=0"


function seeComics() {
subWin('http://www.dilbert.com/');

}
//--></SCRIPT>


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But as I grow and utilize this more, I would like to add forums to this. But in Firefox though, being my protected browser, has all cookies turned off and no addon's ect. So, with the forums requiring cookies, I would like my script to open certain links in specific browsers.

So how do I add a line to my code, so that from Firefox, I can have my code open a link in IE?

Fotiman

8:38 pm on Oct 9, 2014 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



Nope, you can't. You can't launch another executable on your machine from Firefox as that would be a huge security risk. There may be some Firefox extensions/addons that can do that, but you'd probably be opening yourself up to way more risk than just enabling cookies.

blankmonkey

10:21 pm on Oct 9, 2014 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Are there other options? Like chrome or IE or opera? I suspect that answer is no, but....

Also, the other browsers wont let me open a bunch of tabs all at once, and will not let me customize my preferences to do so

Terabytes

1:57 am on Oct 10, 2014 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I believe you'll find that IE is capable of opening multiple tabs...

Go into Tools/Options, where you designate your home page. Add 1 website per line in the box... every time you open IE you will open those same links. That's actually worked in IE for a few versions...

Fotiman

12:40 pm on Oct 10, 2014 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month




the other browsers wont let me open a bunch of tabs all at once

In Chrome, you could add all of the sites to a folder in your Bookmarks. Then just right click on the folder and select "Open all bookmarks"

blankmonkey

5:08 pm on Oct 10, 2014 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Thank you all for your input :)
Those are some great ideas, but require me to manipulate a browser. with my own website, I have all my links (protected by my personal website) where ever I go. But I will try some out for my work station.