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

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