Opening multiple tabs in a webbrowser on Android

[przemolb]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to migrate my firefox between two Android phones. The FF on the old phone has multiple tabs open (a lot ...), I don't want to lose them and I couldn't find a way to do that without hacking.
After researching I found Beeware/briefcase. The simple Python script I developed is:

import webbrowser
import os

urlList = [
    'https://www.cnn.com',
    'https://bbc.co.uk',
    'https://www.example.com'
]


def main():
    webbrowser.register("firefox", None)
    for url in urlList:
        print(url)
        webbrowser.get("firefox").open_new_tab(url)

but I am getting an error

D/AndroidRuntime: Shutting down VM
--------- beginning of crash
E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime: Process: com.example.firefoxtabs, PID: 14801
E/AndroidRuntime: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.firefoxtabs/org.beeware.android.MainActivity}: com.chaquo.python.PyException: Error: could not locate runnable browser
E/AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3946)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:4126)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:108)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeNonLifecycleItem(TransactionExecutor.java:195)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:157)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:90)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2544)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:107)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:232)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:317)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8501)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:552)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:878)
E/AndroidRuntime: Caused by: com.chaquo.python.PyException: Error: could not locate runnable browser
E/AndroidRuntime:       at <python>.webbrowser.get(webbrowser.py:66)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at <python>.firefoxtabs.app.main2(app.py:67)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at <python>.firefoxtabs.app.<module>(app.py:69)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at <python>.java.chaquopy.import_override(import.pxi:26)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at <python>.__main__.<module>(__main__.py:1)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at <python>.runpy._run_code(<frozen runpy>:88)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at <python>.runpy._run_module_code(<frozen runpy>:98)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at <python>.runpy.run_module(<frozen runpy>:226)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at <python>.chaquopy_java.call(chaquopy_java.pyx:354)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at <python>.chaquopy_java.Java_com_chaquo_python_PyObject_callAttrThrowsNative(chaquopy_java.pyx:326)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at com.chaquo.python.PyObject.callAttrThrowsNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at com.chaquo.python.PyObject.callAttrThrows(PyObject.java:232)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at com.chaquo.python.PyObject.callAttr(PyObject.java:221)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at org.beeware.android.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:85)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:8767)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:8745)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1519)
E/AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3928)

Does anybody know how can I fix this ?

[mhsmith]

Unfortunately the webbrowser module doesn't work on Android yet. I've created an issue for that at chaquo/chaquopy#1149.

Even if it did work for a single URL, I'm not sure whether Android would allow you to open multiple tabs at once in this way.

But if you already have a list of the URLs, why not just paste them into a Markdown GitHub Gist or something, and then open that page on your new phone? Then you can create new tabs from them whenever you want.