A good live tab search add-on, but as others have written, the shortcut key is not working and cannot be changed. Also there is no black theme. The window is too short. I wish it was a sidebar extension. An "x" sign on the left of each title would be nice (pressing closes).

I have used it for about a year at a guess. Never given me any trouble. Made it easy to find tabs and I often have hundreds open (well, about 200 say). And those annoying vids that play and you can't find them? I use the 'audio only' checkbox and find them easy. Yep, I like it. I can bulk delete a whole bunch. When I see them listed there I can decide to junk 'em a lot quicker easier than I will when I check each tab one by one - that way I always seem to decide I still need 'em. :) Tabhunter helps me grow up and get ruthless and just zap 'em.

I use this add-on all the time. Knocking two stars off because the hotkey feature is broken. The default hotkey (Ctrl+Shift+S) is used by Firefox to take a screenshot and the hotkey text box doesn't seem to allow typing, so I can't enter a custom key shortcut. It only allows deleting but once deleted you can't type anything, is this a bug?

Developer reply on 2023-05-22 16:35 PM: Which platform are you on?
Me on 2023-05-22 16:58: Windows 11 64-bit

Thanks for this Firefox addon! My name is Victor and I'm a tab messie/junkie (currently 2161 tabs open... 😞). Tabhunter helps me taking control back over my browser (macOS). And the "audio only" checkbox is... priceless!

This addon is really nice, quick and does the fuzzy searching how I'd like. But you can't change the keyboard shortcut to start search and on Linux it's a fairly horrendous default (ctrl+5) :(

Just what I needed with my (too) many open tabs.

I have been using this since v1.0.5.1 with older browsers using the non web extension type extensions and I much preferred the way that worked with a separate window. That is no longer possible with the current extensions :( I am now using Waterfox Classic 2021.10. However every version after v3.1.2 stops showing any search tabs with the last search entry when the Tab search button is clicked. When the button is clicked, the previous search term is there but no tabs are shown. The only way to get it to show any tabs is to laboriously click the More button, scroll down the window to the bottom and click one of the Sort by radio buttons. It will then show tabs in the window. Up to and including 3.1.2 everything works okay but anything from 3.2.0 onwards makes this extension unusable for me. BTW the Audio only check box is unticked in all these cases.

I will stick to 3.1.2 unless this is fixed in later releases. BTW I need older extensions for my fully Sandboxed browser usage which is why I use Waterfox Classic.
Carl

I have many youtube tabs that have audio on it and when I select audio only and go, this addon cannot go to each of these tabs!

by far the most sophisticated tab inspector out there! I had to figure out the audio tab from a buttload of tabs every single time and all the other options out there were a joke!! Simple, facile and gets the job done. Period! Love

I tend to keep open far too many tabs and this tool enables my disease. I was having trouble with it not showing anything until I emptied the pattern string and reopened the list. I just realized this is because when opened it shows the last search, but ALSO turns on the audio only checkbox so that nothing shows! Doesn't matter if you change what is typed until you unclick the audio only. When the pattern box is empty audio only is auto turned off. Is this a bug? At least now I know.

If the window is opened with text in the search field and the audio only flag is set there were no search results. If the search string is cleared, the window closed and reopened, the audio only flag is now turned off. I didn't turn it off, the tool did. That's why it was confusing. I didn't notice the flag was on in one state and off in the other.

[Edited] Tabhunter is wonderful! I only discovered it a week ago, and it's a life saver for those of us with hundreds of tabs open.

The most recent Firefox update (83.0 (64-bit)) seemed to have broken it. Double clicking on the selected tab link, or clicking Go, now shows the selected tab for a split second but then returns to the current tab. *edit: the bad behaviour has stopped, and I have no idea why.

The Tabhunter Extension is impossible to use when using a Dark Theme or Night mode or Reverse colored text on Computer Tablets, in Firefox or Windows where the window background color of Tabhunter has been switched to black or dark, because the Tabhunter text and button label text colors are hardcoded to be a very dark grey almost close to black, which is not distinguishable against a dark theme black background window color

A picture is worth a thousand words, so here's a screen snapshot capture of the problem - can you read anything in the Tabhunter window or on the buttons at all with near black text against a black window background color?

https://i.imgur.com/NKDDPQX.jpg

I would recommend un-hardcoding the text color to a dark grey color and instead do a call to get the current default text color for firefox window text or Windows (whichever applies) for the current Theme (in a dark theme scenario, in my case, it would be white text on a black background).

This is a high priority bug to fix because some people with vision problems have to switch to white text on black background because the glare from a white background screen is overpowering to look at and blinds them, and other people just like to run a dark theme because they hack at night in the dark at night, or a dark theme just looks cool. If you can't read the Tabhunter listing of Tabs or the Tabhunter button labels, it looks broken and functionally is unusable.

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A second unrelated recommendation I have is to make the Tabhunter window stretchable and expandable downward, so you can increase the viewing area of the list, or make the window detachable so it can be a floating window (if that is even possible with a Firefox extension dialog).

Thanks for the quick reply!

I will try CTRL+SHIFT+U but the main issue is that there is nothing I can do change the keys - the only key that does anything is the backspace key and I cannot put anything else in!

I am running Firefox nightly 64 bit - Minefield V63.0a1

(previous comment:)
Loved this addon for years. Have 717 tabs open at present. Glad to see it got updated recently - unfortunately I cannot use it on Windows 10 64bit as the default keystroke CTRL+SHIFT+S opens some firefox debugger tools

And I cannot alter the keystrokes - can delete keystrokes in the settings but not either type in a sequence such as CTRL+SHIFT+Y in text or using the 3 keys. There is no toolbar or menu item so I simply cannot get to it.
And no, I do not have the CTRL+1 option enabled.

I am using AllTabs Helper instead - it's a tad clunky, but would use TabHunter in preference if I could get to it.

Developer response

Sorry to hear that. There aren't many key-combinations that aren't owned by Windows. I got Ctrl-Shift-U to work (see https://github.com/ericpromislow/tabhunter/issues/92#issuecomment-393412713 ) And maybe you can use the Customize feature to put the Tabhunter icon in the toolbar

This once-awesome add-on, whose functionality is as indispensable as glasses to a severely myopic person and ought to have been part and parcel of Mozilla's Firefox distribution a long time ago, has been going from bad to worse, partly for changes in Firefox itself. At version 1.0.5, it was almost perfect. Then, due to Electrolysis, it became a lot slower at least. It would not be a problem if the author could set the compatibility range properly, so that it does not upgrade itself on older platforms that retain older functionality. For this single offending add-on, the otherwise useful automatic updating of add-ons must be switched off. But at least we got had a comfortably large and, above all, resizable window. Since about version 2, we got this loathsome, ridiculously clumsy non-resizable window, that sits at only about 1/9 of my pretty average 1920 x 1200 screen, making me scroll it to and fro in every direction for just about any query, if this is not meant to be pure design sadism, then it surely is an exercise in colossal stupidity and perceptual incompetence. What is wrong with the Western world and its craze for this dumbed-down minimalistic design: the bigger screens we have, the more controls get tucked away and hidden, which not only arrogantly lays the purportedly precious screen estate to waste, but also drives user interaction complexity to insanely high levels?! If i have a large screen, I want to have a rich visual interface with all the controls at hand! (That is why we get large screens, not to be forced to squint through some claustrophobic window, trying to glean the information that we want in a desperate struggle against the dictatorship of erratic and, especially as of late, often almost invisible scrollbars!) Sadly, because of the claustrophobic, non-resizable window, Tabhunter has become such a pain in the ass to use that it makes one puke with fury and anger... and, as such, Tabhunter has reached the point of virtual unusability. The fading of unloaded tabs will not help it. It may be much faster now, but it is negated by the need to type something into the search bar to make something appear in the search pane, e.g. a space if I want to get list of all open tabs, as I got them before. (Again, on design sadism: if there is some search facility with a search icon, why I cannot just click into the search bar to focus it and start typing, why do I have to click on the search icon to reveal the search bar before I can focus it ans start typing into it?!)

Hotkey combinations are not saved. Ctrl-5 on Windows switches to fifth tab.

It is so cool that i even decided to find my password and login to give it 5 stars. The search audio playing tabs is killing feature. TY very mush!