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@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ Firefox, on macOS and Linux.[^otherbrowsers]
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Each of your open tabs is mapped to a folder.
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<div class="figure">
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<img src="doc/00-browser.png" style="width: 70%">
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<img src="doc/00-finder.png" style="width: 80%; max-height: 1000px">
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<a href="doc/00-browser.png"><img src="doc/00-browser.png" style="width: 70%"></a>
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<a href="doc/00-finder.png"><img src="doc/00-finder.png" style="width: 80%; max-height: 1000px"></a>
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<p class="caption" style="margin-top: -20px">I have 3 tabs open, and
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they map to 3 folders in TabFS</p>
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</div>
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@ -166,6 +166,20 @@ $ echo 'document.body.style.background = "green"' > mnt/tabs/last-focused/execut
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$ echo 'alert("hi!")' > mnt/tabs/last-focused/execute-script
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```
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### Get images / scripts / etc on page
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(TODO: [document better](https://github.com/osnr/TabFS/issues/5), put in screenshots)
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The [`debugger/`
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subdirectory](https://github.com/osnr/TabFS/blob/fef9289e3a7f82cda6319d5f19d5a5f13f3cc44b/extension/background.js#L355)
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in each tab folder has synthetic files that let you access loaded
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resources (in `debugger/resources/`) and scripts (in
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`debugger/scripts/`). (this is experimental)
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### Retrieve what's playing on YouTube Music: [youtube-music-tabfs](https://github.com/junhoyeo/youtube-music-tabfs)
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[thanks](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kok4dw/tabfs_mount_your_browser_tabs_as_a_filesystem/ghtbgw1/) to [Junho Yeo](https://github.com/junhoyeo)!
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### Reload an extension when you edit its source code
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Suppose you're working on a Chrome extension (apart from this
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@ -314,7 +328,9 @@ Choose manifest.json in the extension subfolder of this repo.
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First, make sure you have FUSE and FUSE headers. On Linux, for example,
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`sudo apt install libfuse-dev` or equivalent. On macOS, get [FUSE for
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macOS](https://osxfuse.github.io/).
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macOS](https://osxfuse.github.io/). (on macOS, also check [this
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bug](https://github.com/osnr/TabFS/issues/11) -- TODO work out the
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best path to explain here.)
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Then compile the C filesystem:
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click "Inspect")
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<div class="figure">
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<img style="max-width: 90%; max-height: 1000px" src="doc/inspector.png">
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<a href="doc/inspector.png"><img style="max-width: 90%; max-height: 1000px" src="doc/inspector.png"></a>
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</div>
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This console is also incredibly helpful for debugging anything that
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## things that could/should be done
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- add more synthetic files!! view DOM nodes, snapshot current HTML of
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page, spelunk into living objects. see what your code is doing. make
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more files writable also
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(maybe you can do these?)
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- [add more synthetic files!! (it's just
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JavaScript)](https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/1345113873792126976)
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view DOM nodes, snapshot current HTML of page, spelunk into living
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objects. see what your code is doing. make more files writable also
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- build more (GUI and CLI) tools on top, on both sides
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Unix, and Unix is by far the more accessible and programmable and
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cohesive as a computing environment (it has concepts that compose!
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shell, processes, files), even though it's arguably the less important
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to my daily life. how can the browser take on more of the properties
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of Unix?
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to my daily life. [how can the browser take on more of the properties
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of Unix?](https://twitter.com/jcreed/status/1344982366243213312)
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- it's [way too
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hard](https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/1342236988938719232) to make a
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why can't I just take a minute to ask my browser a question or tell it
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to automate something? lightness
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- ["files are a sort of approachable 'bridge' that everyone knows how
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to interact with" / files are like one of the first things you learn
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if you know any programming language / "because of this fs thing any
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beginner coding thing can make use of it now"](https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/1345490658836926464)
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- a lot of existing uses of these browser control APIs are in an
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automation context: testing your code on a robotic browser as part
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of some pipeline. I'm much more interested in an interactive,
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- my [fake filesystems talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfHpDDXJQVg)
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- <https://luciopaiva.com/witchcraft/> it has the right idea for
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how to set up userscripts. just make files -- don't make [your
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own weird UI to add and remove
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- [Witchcraft](https://luciopaiva.com/witchcraft/) has the right
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idea for how to set up userscripts. just make files -- don't
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make [your own weird UI to add and remove
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them](https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/1196536798312140800). (I
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guess there is a political or audience
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[tradeoff](https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/1290031845363466242)
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