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TabFS a browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer. (omar.website)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I don't get. Why would you want to do this? I understand to run standard os tools, but why? Just curl the page and use tools.

Also i wonder if there's any kind of vulnerability that can be exploited somehow.

Maybe i'm not understanding though?

Can anyone explain it to me please?

It does sound interesting though.

[–] TheAgeOfSuperboredom 3 points 3 years ago

Haha! Why not? Back to the Unix philosophy that everything is a file. :)

I can see some practical use for this in terms of resource manipulation. The page gets into being able to download videos (YouTube right now it seems) or live editing a page. You could use an extension for that (like Greasemonkey) but this probably lets you use your normal tools (awk, cat, etc.)

For downloading, youtube-dl is probably better right now, but who knows where this will go. It's kind of a fun idea if nothing else.