get urls of firefox tabs from firefox extension

Question

In a firefox extension, how do you enumerate the current window's tabs and retrieve their URLs?

Imprimatur

Answer 1

There's a code snippet at MDC that does exactly that:

var num = gBrowser.browsers.length;
for (var i = 0; i < num; i++) {
  var b = gBrowser.getBrowserAtIndex(i);
  try {
    dump(b.currentURI.spec); // dump URLs of all open tabs to console
  } catch(e) {
    Components.utils.reportError(e);
  }
}

Patton

downvote, because you should add the code snippet to your answer. – Blau

Link is dead. This is exactly why we shouldn't do link only answers. – Paleolith

fixed the link for now. – Benzidine

Answer 2

When using Firefox SDK, see this:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tutorials/List_Open_Tabs

var tabs = require("sdk/tabs");
for (let tab of tabs)
    console.log(tab.url);

Additionally, the tabs object seems to have array interface, so you can use also the .length property:

var tabs = require("sdk/tabs");
for (var i = 0; i < tabs.length; i++)
    console.log(tabs[i].url);

Ramification