Multi-bookmarks in Flock (or Firefox)

I’ve switched to Flock as my primary browser. Yes, I still load Safari when I miss the speed and beauty, but there are a few plugins I’ve come to depend on that happen to be compatible with Flock. Like Zotero, for example. It’s amazingly well developed for a beta. And having all of my TUAW compatriots displayed in a twitter sidebar prevents me from getting the overload that comes every time I load Twitterific. But I’ve had to find solutions for a couple of issues, one of which I thought I’d share. Safari allows you to set “auto-click” on folders of bookmarks, so that when you click the folder in your toolbar, it loads all of the contained items in tabs. I wanted similar functionality in Flock/Firefox…

The solution is a javascript bookmarklet. A simple javascript:void(window.open(‘http://yoursite.com’)); will open one page. Double it up for two pages, and if you have your preferences set to open new windows in tabs, this will give you two tabs for the specified links:

javascript:void(window.open('http://bookmark1.com'));void(window.open('http://bookmark2.com'));

So then I just had to speed the process up. This is a quick AppleScript that will grab all of your currently opened Safari tabs (in the front window only) and build the bookmarklet for you, placing it in the clipboard. Then you just need to create a new bookmarklet in Flock/Firefox and paste it as the link. Click here to open this script directly in Script Editor.

Create multi-bookmark from Safari Tabs

1. tell application "Safari"
2. set tabList to every tab of front window
3. set tabLinkList to {}
4. repeat with aTab in tabList
5. set aLink to URL of aTab
6. set tabLinkList to tabLinkList & aLink
7. end repeat
8. set {astid, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to ¬
9. {AppleScript's text item delimiters, return}
10. set linkList to tabLinkList as string
11. set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid
12. end tell
13. set urlList to "javascript:"
14. set {astid, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to ¬
15. {AppleScript's text item delimiters, return}
16. repeat with anUrl in text items of linkList
17. set jsUrl to "void(window.open('" & anUrl & "'));"
18. set urlList to urlList & jsUrl
19. end repeat
20. set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid
21. set the clipboard to urlList
22. Download this code: multibookmarkfromsafaritabs.txt

Whether you dig Flock or happen to like Firefox better than Safari, this should come in handy.