Reviews for TabSearch
TabSearch by Enrico Baculinao
105 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13230603, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Fredrik Berglund, 7 years agoNot having an easy way of searching tabs was the only inconvenience after permanently switching from Chrome to Firefox Quantum (which is a delight to use in so many ways). This extension solved that - works great!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Suraj, 7 years agoGreat add-on, does what to says it does.
Thanks for making it (and open sourcing it). - Rated 5 out of 5by recycler.fox, 7 years agoGood one!
If someone gets "the cursor doesn't immediately focus the search box" on windows, just hit Tab before typing your search. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13719368, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by revija, 7 years agoUPD: thanks, much better now!
Still, 'click to close tab' option needed (I know about 'ctrl', I even used to work with just keyboard, but...). And also would be nice to have grey count badge, not RED.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for your feedback! Customizable colors is next on my list. I'll also add a delete tab button for mouse users. In the mean time please bear with holding CTRL before clicking to delete tabs.
Edit: You can now click to delete and change the tab count color - Rated 3 out of 5by rhpops96744, 7 years agoHow about adding a close tab option to each tab while in view tabs mode: point and click!
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHold the Ctrl/Cmd key while clicking the tab. You can also press Ctrl+Backspace while the tab is selected. - Rated 4 out of 5by Matthew, 7 years agoSimple tool that does the job. Looks nice.
One caveat - I am one of the people for whom the cursor doesn't immediately focus the search box, and it can be a bit infuriating sometimes to press the shortcut only to have to move the mouse anyway. Windows 8.1 FF 57.0.4. Still a keeper for adding basic functionality the browser lacks, and for going some way towards mitigating the issues of having hundreds of tabs!Developer response
posted 7 years agoI'm so tired of this bug, sorry that it affects you. The best we can do right now is wait for someone to finish submitting a patch for this bug, since it's a Firefox issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1324255
If you're comfortable with coding and building an npm project, you can try: you can try extending the timeout values in this function https://github.com/reblws/tab-search/blob/master/src/core/pages/popup/side-effects.js#L81in focusSearchInputWorkaround and see if that might help. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13674089, 7 years ago新しいFirefoxに移行したら今まで使っていたタグを検索するアドオンが使えなくなったので、このアドオンのお陰で助かりました。
機能的に普通に満足。 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13661533, 7 years agoI try to organize my tabs in multiple profiles but my workflow always gravitates back to one. My tab count is steadily growing to 400 once again. I think I'll just go with the flow now that I found this neat extension. This enables me to work my browser as I do my download folder. No file structure, only search and metadata. A bit like working a database. I love it!
I'd love to be able to resize the result list from top to bottom and like I saw someone else say; minimize space one entry uses.
I have one issue though. In my browser the search field is not focused after using the shortcut. Quite annoying. I saw I'm not the only one with this issue but that it was a bug that only plagues a few. Can you please contact me Enrico? 8aa1a912[at]opayq[dot]com (
Thanks for the add-on! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13594294, 7 years agoGreat extension! Exactly what i was missing.
A suggestion / feature request: it would be great also to have a "condensed" view of the tabs, where each entry in the list uses up less space.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for the suggestion, for the next release I was adding an option to remove the URL from the list view. May as well use this opportunity to trim the size of each tab down and call it "Compact View". - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13529122, 7 years agoInput might not focus when the search popup is activated for certain users (Windows users mainly report this)
it's true :-(
and thats why uninstall :-(
beatuful idea - bad realization. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13537026, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13509766, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Matvey Soloviev, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 10620720, 7 years agoPretty great. However, a couple of issues:
1) the extension icon needs to be visible for this to work (if you hide it completely, the keyboard shortcut doesn't work, and if you hide if behind the arrows, the animations take a long time to show the list)
2) the first time you press down or right arrow to focus the first item, it doesn't work - you need to press it twice - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13459908, 7 years agoPretty great so far except that unchecking the "Display total number of tabs above the popup icon" setting doesn't seem to stick. It turns off the popup icon for a while, but then stops working in new tabs, other tabs, or even the same tab if other tabs are closed or just switching to a different tab. The tab popup reappears pretty much the minute you do anything tab wise.
Another bug I experienced is that if you move the TabSearch button into the Overflow Menu from it's default position on the toolbar through Firefox's "Customize", and then use the hotkey to activate/toggle TabSearch, the cursor doesn't automatically focus on the textbox and you need to manually click it to start searching. - Rated 4 out of 5by M. Samuel, 7 years agoSo far so good but I'd appreciate if the cursor flashes right away in the search box instead of placing it manually ourselves, so that we start typing right away when we use the keyboard shortcut or clicking the extension icon.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThis sounds like a bug, the input should be focused right away once you open the popup.
I know at least one other user raised the point https://github.com/reblws/tab-search/issues/13 here, but I'm having trouble replicating it.
Could you let me know you browser version & OS? You can also contact me by email or that GitHub issue (if you have a GitHub account) if that makes it any easier for you. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13442481, 7 years agoOverall 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 7 years agoWhat 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 - Rated 5 out of 5by javvvier, 7 years agoI'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 7 years agoThanks 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 - Rated 5 out of 5by Migo, 7 years agoI 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.