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htrinter / Open-Multiple-URLs

Browser extension for opening lists of URLs built on top of WebExtension with cross-browser support
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Feature request: Open first URL in current tab (or close current tab on completion) #39

Open Auke76 opened 2 years ago

Auke76 commented 2 years ago

Hi,

I really love this plugin. Use it a lot to open multiple url's / pages that I need to check, from Excel sheets. I was wondering - is there a reason why all of them are loaded in a new tab? I would like (and always use) the option to open the first URL of the list in the active tab, so I can get right to it. Now I always need to close the active tab, once I loaded all the url's. (Or, if it's easier: (an option to) close the current tab, when the last new tab is loaded would also work).

htrinter commented 2 years ago

Hi, I believe the currently opened tab state to be overwritten would constitute an unexpected behaviour for many users. The extension should preserve user state wherever possible. An option to use the currently opened tab, in addition to opening new tabs, would be a cool convinience feature. Although I think it probably isn't required by many users and only provides a very minor improvement for most.