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I was a VERY late convert to tabs, and I only use them for browsers now (and not all the time, either). I always felt that the OS X command-tilde functionality,

by rconti 5y ago

I was a VERY late convert to tabs, and I only use them for browsers now (and not all the time, either). I always felt that the OS X command-tilde functionality, for switching between windows the same way you switch through applications using command-tab, was superior. You're always switching between the most recently used windows, chronologically. You can even remember when something was several keystrokes back, and if you don't remember, you can see it in realtime. It's insanely frustrating to try to switch between two arbitrary tabs in a browser, you have to use the mouse, and keep track of which tab you want to use. I was just running into this problem earlier today, switching between a doc I was reading and a tab I was working in. Of course, having separate windows for everything leads to more visual clutter, and hurts discoverability a little bit.

bobbylarrybobby 5y ago
I’ve often wondered if a sort function that could switch between “manual” tab order and recent tab order. So that you could keep things organized in both space and time.
- Vinnl 5y ago
  Firefox can have Ctrl+tab run chronologically, and then Ctrl+PageUp/Down still use the 'manual' order.
febed 5y ago
This is one of the things that annoys me about Chrome. Last I checked, there wasn't a solution for this. Opera had it as a feature a long time ago.
Vinnl 5y ago
New Firefox installs have Ctrl+tab run chronologically, and you can this behaviour for existing installs as well if you want.
- stonewareslord 5y ago
  I cannot stand this functionality and it's the first thing I disable on new installations. For me, Ctrl+tab is right and Ctrl+shift+tab is left. I much prefer Firefox's awesome bar navigation when jumping around. % app will show all tabs with a title or URL containing app, * yo does the same for bookmarks containing yo, and ^ for history. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-keyboard-shortcuts?redirectslug=awesome-bar-keyboard-shortcuts https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-keyboard-sh... Edit: unfortunately, the % shortcut does not work with containers.
  - shostack 5y ago
    Is there a way to get FF to enable the mouse wheel to wrap tabs in a loop once you go past either end of your tab list? It used to do this and now seems like there's no way to get this behavior back
    - stonewareslord 5y ago
      Looks like no. Here is the one reference to `toolkit.tabbox.switchByScrolling`: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/content/widgets/tabbox.js#450 https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/content... You can see here that the second param to advanceSelectedTab is false This param controls wrapping according to the definition: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/content/widgets/tabbox.js#757 https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/content... To confirm, we can see that the shift+tab/shift+ctrl+tab (which wraps) definition passes that param as true: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/content/widgets/tabbox.js#137 https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/content... Maybe you can file a bug to add another bool pref instead of hardcoding false?

by rconti 5y ago

bobbylarrybobby 5y ago

I’ve often wondered if a sort function that could switch between “manual” tab order and recent tab order. So that you could keep things organized in both space and time.

Vinnl 5y ago
Firefox can have Ctrl+tab run chronologically, and then Ctrl+PageUp/Down still use the 'manual' order.

febed 5y ago

This is one of the things that annoys me about Chrome. Last I checked, there wasn't a solution for this. Opera had it as a feature a long time ago.

Vinnl 5y ago

New Firefox installs have Ctrl+tab run chronologically, and you can this behaviour for existing installs as well if you want.

stonewareslord 5y ago
I cannot stand this functionality and it's the first thing I disable on new installations. For me, Ctrl+tab is right and Ctrl+shift+tab is left. I much prefer Firefox's awesome bar navigation when jumping around. % app will show all tabs with a title or URL containing app, * yo does the same for bookmarks containing yo, and ^ for history. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-keyboard-shortcuts?redirectslug=awesome-bar-keyboard-shortcuts https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-keyboard-sh... Edit: unfortunately, the % shortcut does not work with containers.
- shostack 5y ago
  Is there a way to get FF to enable the mouse wheel to wrap tabs in a loop once you go past either end of your tab list? It used to do this and now seems like there's no way to get this behavior back
  - stonewareslord 5y ago
    Looks like no. Here is the one reference to `toolkit.tabbox.switchByScrolling`: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/content/widgets/tabbox.js#450 https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/content... You can see here that the second param to advanceSelectedTab is false This param controls wrapping according to the definition: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/content/widgets/tabbox.js#757 https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/content... To confirm, we can see that the shift+tab/shift+ctrl+tab (which wraps) definition passes that param as true: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/content/widgets/tabbox.js#137 https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/content... Maybe you can file a bug to add another bool pref instead of hardcoding false?