Re: emacs <----> firefox

[Jonas Damm]

Hi,

The following is a solution I copied from David Wilsons
"emacs-from-scratch" repository:

You could configure Firefox to open every tab as a new window, for
example by using the "i hate tabs" extension.

I am using exwm, so I have this in my emacs config:

  (defun efs/exwm-update-title ()
    (pcase exwm-class-name
      ("Firefox-esr" (exwm-workspace-rename-buffer (format "Firefox: %s" 
exwm-title)))
      ("qutebrowser" (exwm-workspace-rename-buffer (format "Qutebrowser: %s" 
exwm-title)))))

You can find out more about this here:
https://github.com/daviwil/emacs-from-scratch/blob/f4918aadf6970b098999d28bdbc212942aa62b80/show-notes/Emacs-Desktop-03.org

With this, you can fuzzy search your tabs by the switch-to-buffer
command or with counsel-switch-to-buffer, which i prefer.




 
Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> that sounds very interesting.  i am glad alternatives like that are
> being developed.  however, i am very interested in the emacs <---->
> firefox thing, but i don't think i have it in me to try an entirely
> new gui browser, for a variety of reasons.
>
>
> On 4/21/22, Hendursaga <hendursaga@aol.com> wrote:
>>> i thought perhaps some firefox <----> emacs thing could help.
>>>
>>> any ideas here?  other than don't have 1000 tabs?
>>
>> This doesn't directly answer your question, but have you looked into the
>> Nyxt browser[1]? It's mostly written in Common Lisp and one could describe
>> it as an aspiring Emacs of web browsers. Tab filtering / switching is one of
>> its strengths. In addition, there are ways of interoperating with Emacs, see
>> for instance, some of Andrea's blog articles[2].
>>
>> [1] https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/
>> [2] https://ag91.github.io/tags/nyxt/
>>