Reviews for TST Active and Total Tabs Counter
TST Active and Total Tabs Counter by Irv66
1 review
- Rated 4 out of 5by MrArtist, 6 months agoThis looks interesting and I'm guessing fairly new as an add-on. The first thing I notice is that the Window1/Window2 order shown is not what I consider to be my order or Firefox windows, i.e. my main window to me is '1' but this add-on shows it as '2' - perhaps if there were some way to define which window should be which in the count.
The other thing I notice is that the font display and arrangement feels a little crude and large for my compact liking - it's using a mono-space font on multiple lines which I appreciate helps with the layout of addition figures but maybe it would be nicer to just have the data display on one or more lines in a more compact way (it doesn't matter if each window's tab counts are under each other or not), just having something like this would do:
W1: 2/56, W2: 23/543, W3: 1/1, T: 27/600
Then maybe it would all fit on one line on my tab display and if not, in a small font/size on two lines (with narrow line-spacing) it could be informative without taking up valuable vertical tab space, i.e. treat it like a status line of data rather than an addition sum, one window on top of another.
The above figures are my count right now, W2 is my main window, W3 is that of my password manager and it would perhaps also be useful to exclude that maybe.
Otherwise, a nice idea and I look forward to it evolving.
Oh, one last thing, it seems to have obscured or obliterated the 'New Tab' description even though the function remains if I click in that area used for the tab count display.Developer response
posted 6 months agoThanks for the feedback. This was really more of a first attempt. (The mono-spacing was to better align the information into columns and support -> Title: xxxx / yyyy tabs ... and would look good up to 9999 tabs)
I have released v0.9.9 to add a compact view option that you can access by clicking on the addon button.
As for the Window numbering, I am just asking the API for a list of windows and I traverse them one by one assigning them 1 thru n. From an API perspective, each window just has an ID assigned to it but those numbers mean even less to the user. I could sort the windows by the number of tabs in each THEN assign them 1 thru n, but not sure how useful that is.
As for the "New Tab" description, please see: https://github.com/irvinm/TST-Active-and-Total-Tabs-Counter/issues/3. I could use more info please.
Feel free to start a discussion here if you have more feedback: https://github.com/irvinm/TST-Active-and-Total-Tabs-Counter/discussions