On 13/03/2024 06:24, Arlen Holder known Paedophile asked:
> Is there a Windows batch way to make firefox tor browser open tabs from a
> separate text list of book sites?

This is where Bookmarks are designed for! You need to open your
bookmarks menu and assuming these links are stored in a bookmark folder,
you simply choose "Open all in tabs". Everything opens in tabs.

How's your paedophilia activities going on?

Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> wrote:

> Just a sidenote: neither drag&drop nor "file -> open" work in Firefox on
> actual Android devices. (Security reasons, you know..)
> Nevertheless i think an exported html-snippet like described above could
> be the most universal solution.

Well, since the OP is mandating creation of a script that only works in
Windows, and posted to a Windows newsgroup, he expects his students to
open web browsers (and just the one of his choice) on Windows.

You're correct that there is no File -> Open menu in Firefox Mobile. A
user in a forum said they could use file:/// in the address bar of Opera
(I don't use it), but said that doesn't work in Firefox on Android. I
was not aware Opera has an Android app, just Windows, Linux, and MacOS,
but there is one at https://play.google.com/store/search?q=opera&c=apps.

Mozilla also took away about:config in Firefox Mobile figuring us users
were too stoopid. Likewise, some users reported an older version of
Firefox Mobile (before Fenix, FF Mobile 68.x) supported file:///, but
then Mozilla took that away, too.

I've read there are alternate file managers for Android that let you
assign handlers to filetypes, so you could open an .html file to have it
load in your web browser. Example: File Manager Plus
(https://play.google.com/store/search?q=file%20manager%20plus&c=apps).
However, it is adware, so unlikely to ever go on my smartphone. The
author's site (https://www.alphainventor.com/file-manager-plus) is very
bare, so no help there to get info on the feature set of his app. Plus
the solution adds more software into the mix.

The OP wants to write a batch script that runs only under DOS or
Windows, so Android just must not be an issue for any of his students.
In addition, the criteria that his students use Tor Browser seems
arbitrary. He might use it. I doubt those hundreds of students would
bother with tor or onion or VPNs or any of that hiding stuff. He isn't
linking to a book about building an a-bomb, WMDs, or DIY terrorism.

If this teacher intends to distribute his script or HTML file, how is he
going to do it? There must be some distribution channel he figures to
use to get it to his students. One way is to have it on a web server,
and his students access the file from the server. There are plenty of
free web host providers. I use one (epizy.com aka infinityfree.com) to
store an HTML version of my resume, and for free. Then I give the URL
to others to read. I don't use any fancy HTML, just really simple
stuff. Twas very easy to upload the files to my web host account. With
5GB for storage quota on a free account, the OP should find p-l-e-n-t-y
of room for a simple HTML doc that is just a list of hyperlinks, and
perhaps some more content, like titles on the hyperlinks (which an
export to HTML from Firefox would give the OP in the outputted .html
file). I'm sure I could find lots of other free web hosters to store
the file to let anyone just use a URL (and even a bookmark it) to reach
a file that renders as a web doc.

If he is a teacher, his school might have their own web site where he
could host his .html file. If he will not invest any time to copy an
..html output easily outputted by Firefox's Export to HTML to a web
server his students can access, I suppose he could mandate his students
install a local Android HTTP server (example:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phlox.simpleserver) to
get at a local file using http://localhost:[port]/<filepath>. Far
fetched, you say? Well, he's mandating they use Tor just to view his
list of books. Might've as well issue other mandates. Or he could
relax his mandates to allow hist students to use any web browser that
does support file:/// in their address bar.

If he wants to restrict access to just his students for his web page,
he'll need a web hoster that includes authentication. His school's
server might already have that to limit access (of all or some pages) to
just teachers or students. epizy lets me designate protected
directories in a free acount, but I've never used them to know how that
works other than the visitor has to login.

VanguardLH,

> Firefox will not pend the batch script until it exits.

Actually ? Yes, it does.

At least it did when I tried it just two days ago - which was why I (found
and) mentioned the "start" command.

> Loading lots of Firefox windows or tabs is overkill.

Indeed. But as long as it was what the user wanted that to happen to
himself, who's to judge ?

.... and as you might have noticed, as soon as the OP made it clear *others*
where expected to run the script my suggestion changed quite a bit.

> He has not reduced his effort, or that of his students, by
> using a script.

As far as I understood his "load all the tabs" script was generated*. So,
just a click for him and a click for his students. I do not see much of an
effort in that.

* if it wasn't there are already suggestions to how to do that, including
mine. As for how he got the list of websites itself ? The OP has not
mentioned that yet.

> Maintain and distribute a .json file

Someone else already mentioned that an export of the bookmarks or a
batchfile are limited to Windows and FF. IOW, rather limiting.

And at least my version of FF doesn't seem to have the capability to export
a sub-section (a branch?) of the bookmarks. - and I think you will agree
that exporting and sending off *everything* is't really a good idea.

Besides the question of if those students do actually like to have the
teachers (ever-changing?) links stored in their browsers. I know I would
not.

> In addition, his students will only be able to read the books
> in the order he decides.

:-) By using a script ? With enough students there is bound to be at
least one who opens the script and "breaks" it to do whatever (s)he pleases.
Starting with just copying any of the URLS mentioned in it and paste it into
the browser themselves. And ofcourse tell it to the others.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

Frank Miller wrote:
> The original poster Oliver stated that he wants to "send the batch file to
> *hundreds of others* (mostly students)". So you can guess that there's a good
> percentage of his recipients who have no use for a "Windows batch file",
> because they don't use Windows at all.

That is true, I was just answering the question asked. Nothing more.

--
Take care,

Jonathan
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LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

On 13/03/2024 12:56, knuttle wrote:
>
>
> If it were me, I would put the above links in a word processor that
> can save the file as an HTML file and send the students the HTML file.
>
> If that way the ope the HTML file in a tab in the browse and they can
> open each URL is separate tabs.

You could do something like this:

> firefox -url "http://www.authorama.com/"
> "https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/free/"
> "https://www.feedbooks.com/catalog/public_domain"
> "https://www.free-ebooks.net/" "http://www.freeengineeringbooks.com/"
> "https://scholar.google.com/" "https://www.gutenberg.org/"
> "https://archive.org/" "https://manybooks.net/" "https://pdfget.com/"
> "https://www.science.gov/" "https://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/"
> "https://librivox.org/" "https://pdfgrab.com/" "https://sci-hub.ru/"
> "https://openaccessbutton.org/" "https://www.researchgate.net/"
> "https://www.academia.edu" "https://unpaywall.org"
> "https://annas-archive.org/" "https://www.readanybook.com/"
> "https://www.base-search.net/" "https://openlibrary.org/"
> "https://www.tandfonline.com/" "https://libgen.rs/"
> "https://libgen.is/" "https://libgen.li/" "https://libgen.st/"
> "http://zlibrary.to/"
> "http://bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion/"
> "http://thepiratebay.org" "https://www.torrentdownload.info/"
> "https://www.limetorrents.lol/" "https://bitsearch.to/"
> "https://librarygenesis.net/"

Replace the full path for Firefox executable file. It could be:
"C:\Program Files\Firefox\firefox.exe"

On 13/3/2024 2:24 pm, Oliver wrote:
> Is there a Windows batch way to make firefox tor browser open tabs from a
> separate text list of book sites?
>
> This is the current getbooks.bat file but it's cumbersome to maintain the
> list of book sites in that huge line (which the newsreader may break up
> into multiple lines).

Firefox/CommandLineOptions - MozillaWiki
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/CommandLineOptions

On 13/3/2024 2:24 pm, Oliver wrote:
> Is there a Windows batch way to make firefox tor browser open tabs from a
> separate text list of book sites?

alt.comp.software.firefox is an active Usenet newsgroup!

On 13/3/2024 2:24 pm, Oliver wrote:
> Is there a Windows batch way to make firefox tor browser open tabs from a
> separate text list of book sites?
>
> This is the current getbooks.bat file but it's cumbersome to maintain the
> list of book sites in that huge line (which the newsreader may break up
> into multiple lines).
>

firefox addon open sites from list - Google Search
<https://www.google.com/search?q=firefox+addon+open+sites+from+list>