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TabSearch by Enrico Baculinao

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  • by Firefox user 13442481, 8 years ago
    Overall does a great job for the intended task!

    Fixing a few details would be really nice:
    - Allow rebinding the list popup hotkey.
    - When typing to narrow down a tab search, the first item in the list should be highlighted.
    - Allow defining hotkeys for moving up and down in the list (besides the arrow keys.)

    I am coming from Chrome, and the equivalent plugin I use is called Quick Tabs. It also searches history / bookmarks if the search begins with a space.

    Update:
    (Not sure how to reply, so I updated the review to include other suggestions. Thanks for the great plugin!)

    Developer response

    posted 8 years ago
    What else do you think is missing?

    Update:

    Thanks for updating your review with the suggestions.

    1) Rebinding the popup key isn't possible in Firefox yet unfortunately. It'll be possible in future Firefox versions but I don't know exactly when. All we can do now is watch for the progress on this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303384

    2) Pressing enter from the search input should enter the first item in the tab list, but having a visual indicator to make this more obvious is a great suggestion.

    3) Another good idea. Will definitely add this.

    W.r.t to history and bookmarks, I'd love to add them. My main concern is presenting them in a way that doesn't clutter up the search results too much. Here's an open issue on GitHub regarding bookmarks: https://github.com/reblws/tab-search/issues/20 . If you have any more suggestions don't hesitate to contact me by email or comment in the issue tracker! https://github.com/reblws/tab-search/issues
  • by Firefox user 13412144, 8 years ago
    so far it seem easy
  • by javvvier, 8 years ago
    I'm still coping with the loss of TabGroups. With than in mind I decided to change the way I work with Firefox. Even after reducing the number of tabs per window I still had to figure out how to find the tabs quickly. This solves completely the link I was missing in my new (forced) workflow. Congratulations for the neat implementation of this tab searching. I hope your extension gets featured since even after searching 'tab search', it did appear but not at the top of the search results here in Addons. Nice work!

    Developer response

    posted 8 years ago
    Thanks for the positive review.

    If you think it deserves to be featured you can nominate the extension by emailing: amo-featured [at] mozilla [dot] org
  • by Migo, 8 years ago
    I work a lot with tabs and need such an add-on. Great also the search function.

    Under Windows the font is a little fuzzy. Not under Linux.


    Addendum: With the update the little fuzzy issue is fixed.
  • by Tangenta, 8 years ago
    Useful for us who have about 500 opened tabs :)
  • by OneArmBugg, 8 years ago
    This is a great add-on, I had to remove a macOS keyboard shortcut for "google search" that conflicted but after that it works perfect and I no longer have to take my hands off the keyboard to switch directly to a specific tab.

    Developer response

    posted 8 years ago
    Thanks for your feedback, I'm glad you like it.

    Just so you know, the extension shortcut is (probably) going to be changed soon. Don't hesitate to let me know your thoughts at https://github.com/reblws/tab-search/issues/2 if you have a github acct. Or reach me by email.

    I didn't know the shortcut conflicted with a macOS shortcut! If that's a default key-combo that makes me feel even more strongly about changing it.
  • by bsnsk, 8 years ago
    Great addon! Just what I need!

    One possible improvement is to let user customize the keyboard shortcut :)

    Developer response

    posted 8 years ago
    Sorry, right now that's not possible in Firefox :(

    If you have thoughts on a better shortcut let me know in the issue tracker! https://github.com/reblws/tab-search/issues/2
  • by Firefox user 13297728, 8 years ago
    This is a great add-on. Get it!
  • by Firefox user 13128982, 8 years ago
    This addon works well. Only one little niggle. The icon can't be seen when using a dark theme.
  • by kafene, 8 years ago
    I've been waiting for a quick tabs-search menu like my favorite "Quick Tabs" for chrome to come to Firefox. It's a little more convenient than using the location bar with the '%' filter.

    I'd like to see some new features if it's possible and you have time - namely screenshot previews of tabs (using the Webextensions captureVisibleTab API!), supplying bookmark and history results, and some options for tweaking how results are prioritized and sorted (e.g. non-fuzzy search, case-sensitivity, order bookmarks or history first)...

    Nevertheless this is very good for a new release and I love that it's keyboard friendly. Thanks!

    Developer response

    posted 8 years ago
    Thanks for the feedback. Love your new feature ideas, especially the captureVisibleTab idea! I'll look into implementing them.