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Personally, I like being able to Cmd+tab to commonly-used chat apps. Really hard to have a conversation (while doing other stuff) when you have to Cmd+tab to Ch

Personally, I like being able to Cmd+tab to commonly-used chat apps. Really hard to have a conversation (while doing other stuff) when you have to Cmd+tab to Chrome, and then find the tab.

hjgrtrtr 11y ago
You can just move the "tab" to it's own window :)
- ghayes 11y ago
  But then it's Cmd+`
  - OJFord 11y ago
    Worse, it's Cmd+Tab to _a_ Chrome window (maybe you get lucky) and only then Cmd+` to cycle through Chrome windows.
takno 11y ago
I can see some value to a chat app, not least to hold your presence to online. It's the app for the rest of it and the Instagram app that have me confused
Pxtl 11y ago
In general is there a good browser extension or something for a "browser chat tab" that you keep open and don't want to manage as a normal browser tab/window? With a pulse-on-change feature?
- gcr 11y ago
  Could be a good use case for tab pinning, I suppose. Not quite what you're looking for though.
- jmiserez 11y ago
  Chrome->File->Create Application shortcut does this. Or is that not what you're looking for?
gcr 11y ago
I would personally love it if Chrome tabs showed up in Spotlight. Then, ⌘+Space "slack" would either open up the app or the tab, no sweat. :-)
- kawera 11y ago
  There is a plugin for Alfred where you can search/switch to a tab on all open browsers. Works on FF/Chrome/Chromium/Safari.
ThrustVectoring 11y ago
Vimium helped me with this - the `T` shortcut opens an omnibar that searches your open tabs for the text you're entering. It's still two-part, but it's keyboard shortcut + text search instead of visually identifying the correct tab and clicking on it.
50901 11y ago
So you need an app because OS X's window manager is terrible.
- jeff_tyrrill 11y ago
  The window manager is not semantically aware that a particular tab in a particular window in a particular browser is the canonical navigation target for switching to a particular app. A first class platform-native app provides this.
knight17 11y ago
We can move tabs to new window. In that the task switcher will be able to go to the window directly.
sixothree 11y ago
I agree with the sentiment. Also typing 'facebook' into the address bar of FireFox the first result will be to switch to the facebook tab.

Personally, I like being able to Cmd+tab to commonly-used chat apps. Really hard to have a conversation (while doing other stuff) when you have to Cmd+tab to Chrome, and then find the tab.

hjgrtrtr 11y ago

You can just move the "tab" to it's own window :)

ghayes 11y ago
But then it's Cmd+`
- OJFord 11y ago
  Worse, it's Cmd+Tab to _a_ Chrome window (maybe you get lucky) and only then Cmd+` to cycle through Chrome windows.

takno 11y ago

I can see some value to a chat app, not least to hold your presence to online. It's the app for the rest of it and the Instagram app that have me confused

Pxtl 11y ago

In general is there a good browser extension or something for a "browser chat tab" that you keep open and don't want to manage as a normal browser tab/window? With a pulse-on-change feature?

gcr 11y ago
Could be a good use case for tab pinning, I suppose. Not quite what you're looking for though.
jmiserez 11y ago
Chrome->File->Create Application shortcut does this. Or is that not what you're looking for?

gcr 11y ago

I would personally love it if Chrome tabs showed up in Spotlight. Then, ⌘+Space "slack" would either open up the app or the tab, no sweat. :-)

kawera 11y ago
There is a plugin for Alfred where you can search/switch to a tab on all open browsers. Works on FF/Chrome/Chromium/Safari.

ThrustVectoring 11y ago

Vimium helped me with this - the `T` shortcut opens an omnibar that searches your open tabs for the text you're entering. It's still two-part, but it's keyboard shortcut + text search instead of visually identifying the correct tab and clicking on it.

50901 11y ago

So you need an app because OS X's window manager is terrible.

jeff_tyrrill 11y ago
The window manager is not semantically aware that a particular tab in a particular window in a particular browser is the canonical navigation target for switching to a particular app. A first class platform-native app provides this.

knight17 11y ago

We can move tabs to new window. In that the task switcher will be able to go to the window directly.

sixothree 11y ago

I agree with the sentiment. Also typing 'facebook' into the address bar of FireFox the first result will be to switch to the facebook tab.