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Show HN: Fuzzy finder for Chrome tabs and windows

41 points by sina 11y ago

joe5150 11y ago
Orthogonal: I want Chrome to have fuzzy searching for history and bookmarks, like Firefox does. As it is, if I don't either type in the first part of a website's actual URL or some unpredictable magic string into the omnibox, I just get search suggestions instead of useful autocompletes from my history. In Firefox it works perfectly.
- Houshalter 11y ago
  I really don't want that to happen, because I have, um, embarrassing things bookmarked. Typing things into the url bar with other people around is already somewhat of a risk.
gcr 11y ago
The 'chromium' plugin has some fuzzy tab searching. From any page, tap `b` and type in a substring of a page title to match. It's quite nice. I always liked the model of browser tabs as buffers rather than tabs. It reminds me of the philosophy difference between vim and emacs: since accessing a certain tab is O(N), Vim gets unwieldy if I have more tabs open than I have horizontal screen space. On the other hand, I have more than 500 Emacs buffers open and never have to worry when I switch between them. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to use Chrome that way too!
- leppr 11y ago
  Just FYI Vim is buffer-based too [1], windows (tabs) are a layer on top. There's also a nice plugin called fzf [2] for fuzzy searching open buffers or tabs. [1]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Easier_buffer_switching http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Easier_buffer_switching [2]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
benvan 11y ago
Heh, I made one of these a while back :) https://github.com/benvan/mercury https://github.com/benvan/mercury
Houshalter 11y ago
"Apps extensions and user scripts cannot be added from this website." Is there any way around this? Is it possible to jailbreak Chrome?
- dylz 11y ago
  open the extensions tab, and drag the crx link from github into the extensions tab continue button appears bottom left
  - Houshalter 11y ago
    That worked, but when I restarted chrome, it was automatically disabled: https://i.imgur.com/zDEdoeK.png https://i.imgur.com/zDEdoeK.png The button to enable it on the extensions page is greyed out with a warning.
    - sina 11y ago
      Are you in developer mode? If not, enable "Developer mode" and try again. It's at the top of the chrome://extensions/ tab.
      - Houshalter 11y ago
        I am in developer mode. It still doesn't let me use third party extensions. Here's a screenshot http://i.imgur.com/d5y8icz.png?1 http://i.imgur.com/d5y8icz.png?1 Doing some more research, it looks like Chrome started doing this awhile ago to prevent malware, supposedly. You can now only get extensions through the Chrome web store.
        sina 11y ago
        Hmm. I'm not sure what is wrong. I don't have a Google store developer account, otherwise I would have published it there. Try this as a workaround: - clone the repo - go to chrome://extensions/ - enable "Developer mode" - Click on "Load unpacked extension..." and select the cloned directory The advantage of this method is that you will be able to upgrade the extension in the future with a git-pull!

41 points by sina 11y ago

Orthogonal: I want Chrome to have fuzzy searching for history and bookmarks, like Firefox does. As it is, if I don't either type in the first part of a website's actual URL or some unpredictable magic string into the omnibox, I just get search suggestions instead of useful autocompletes from my history. In Firefox it works perfectly.

Houshalter 11y ago
I really don't want that to happen, because I have, um, embarrassing things bookmarked. Typing things into the url bar with other people around is already somewhat of a risk.

gcr 11y ago

The 'chromium' plugin has some fuzzy tab searching. From any page, tap `b` and type in a substring of a page title to match. It's quite nice. I always liked the model of browser tabs as buffers rather than tabs. It reminds me of the philosophy difference between vim and emacs: since accessing a certain tab is O(N), Vim gets unwieldy if I have more tabs open than I have horizontal screen space. On the other hand, I have more than 500 Emacs buffers open and never have to worry when I switch between them. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to use Chrome that way too!

leppr 11y ago
Just FYI Vim is buffer-based too [1], windows (tabs) are a layer on top. There's also a nice plugin called fzf [2] for fuzzy searching open buffers or tabs. [1]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Easier_buffer_switching http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Easier_buffer_switching [2]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

benvan 11y ago

Heh, I made one of these a while back :) https://github.com/benvan/mercury https://github.com/benvan/mercury

Houshalter 11y ago

"Apps extensions and user scripts cannot be added from this website." Is there any way around this? Is it possible to jailbreak Chrome?

dylz 11y ago
open the extensions tab, and drag the crx link from github into the extensions tab continue button appears bottom left
- Houshalter 11y ago
  That worked, but when I restarted chrome, it was automatically disabled: https://i.imgur.com/zDEdoeK.png https://i.imgur.com/zDEdoeK.png The button to enable it on the extensions page is greyed out with a warning.
  - sina 11y ago
    Are you in developer mode? If not, enable "Developer mode" and try again. It's at the top of the chrome://extensions/ tab.
    - Houshalter 11y ago
      I am in developer mode. It still doesn't let me use third party extensions. Here's a screenshot http://i.imgur.com/d5y8icz.png?1 http://i.imgur.com/d5y8icz.png?1 Doing some more research, it looks like Chrome started doing this awhile ago to prevent malware, supposedly. You can now only get extensions through the Chrome web store.
      - sina 11y ago
        Hmm. I'm not sure what is wrong. I don't have a Google store developer account, otherwise I would have published it there. Try this as a workaround: - clone the repo - go to chrome://extensions/ - enable "Developer mode" - Click on "Load unpacked extension..." and select the cloned directory The advantage of this method is that you will be able to upgrade the extension in the future with a git-pull!