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I made a simple extension for Firefox and chrome that might be of some use to you. Like you I had trouble with many tabs being open and having a hard time findi
by weaksauce 10y ago
I made a simple extension for Firefox and chrome that might be of some use to you. Like you I had trouble with many tabs being open and having a hard time finding them so I made a new extension that opens up a new tab window listing all your tabs that are currently open and when you click on them it navigates to that tab. Simple but very useful in my day to day activities.
If you are anything like me you have a number of windows open for some project or research thing and you had one extra tab that you left open as the last active tab in the window but it's unrelated to the other 10 tabs in that window. The windows menu doesn't help you because that is the tab that is listed as the title of that window.
It's free and opensource[1] for Chrome[2] and Firefox[3].
1. https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist
2. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiogfkaldbfphfdkpggjemaha https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog...
3. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/
If you try it and like it/hate it let me know what you might want put into future versions to keep it good/change your opinion of it to the better. It's still early in its development but what's implemented works well so far. Cheers!
Edit: There is a bug in Firefox that I have a patch submitted that will allow the tab titles to show up correctly even when they have been unloaded. for now it shows the URL of the tab until it has been loaded. The patch should land by Firefox 51 hopefully.
- djhworld 10y agoHi, I've just installed it. I like it. I'm a tab hoarder too and I've never found a solution that works for me. I've raised a few issues on github, feel free to ignore them!
- weaksauce 10y agoGlad you like it! So far I am liking the issues you raised and will likely implement them when I have some time. cheers!
- yoasif_ 10y agoYou may not be aware of this, but although I also installed the extension and I am trying it out, Firefox has a way to manage the tab hoarder use case, built into the default install. Using the Awesomebar and typing "%" and a tab name will find the tab. Navigating to it and clicking (or pressing enter) will open the tab in its existing window. Docs here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-firefox-bookmarks-history-tabs#w_changing-results-on-the-fly https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire...
- weaksauce 10y agocreator here... problem I had was with discovery mainly. Listing the title of whatever tab was last focused didn't really indicate what was there at least for me. Sometimes I'd check the weather and forget to close it but the other 9 tabs are related to whatever project I am working on. If you liked the extension I'd love to know what you'd like to see. If you hated it I'd love to know why. Either way thanks for trying it out!