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firefox tabsearch extension - tab searching == win.

Posted Wed, 30 Apr 2008

Table of Contents

What is tabsearch?
How do I use it?
Compatibility with other extensions
Compatibility with firefox versions
Screencast demo
Download/Install

What is tabsearch?

It's a firefox extension that lets you quickly search your tabs by URL and page title.

How do I use it?

Type keywords, and only the matching tabs will remain showing.

Activate the search by pressing CTRL+' (single quote).
Pressing enter will go to the first tab.
Escape cancels your search. Cancelling means it will restore all the tabs hidden while searching.
Clicking anywhere else (other than in the input box) will cancel the search

Compatibility with other extensions

The following tab-enhancing extensions are known to work properly along side tabsearch:

Tab mix plus
Vertigo

Compatibility with firefox versions

The following firefox versions are known to work with tabsearch 20080430:

Firefox 3.0b5
Firefox 2.0.0.12

Screencast demo

View Screencast (req. Flash 6 or better)

Download/Install

tabsearch-20080430.xpi

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Cheston wrote at Wed May 23 09:02:42 2007...

No more swimming through a gazillion tabs. What a great idea, thanks. <3

John wrote at Wed Sep 19 08:17:34 2007...

Just wanted to say thanks - been looking for this plugin for a while and it's already making my life a lot simpler! I tend to leave tabs open for things I use a lot and things I'm in the middle of looking at. Hence a lot of tabs. This makes them worth keeping open! Great job and nice interface.

GNUlancer wrote at Sun Dec 23 11:13:46 2007...

That's a nice and useful one :-)

Alexey Romanov wrote at Tue Apr 15 22:21:15 2008...

It is great (I was planning to write something like it myself when I stumbled onto it). Except I don't see any way to switch between the tabs which remain from the keyboard. Ctrl-tab and Ctrl-shift-tab switch between all tabs, not just those shown.

me wrote at Wed Apr 15 05:47:27 2009...

For users who have a german keyboard:

You have to type Shift-Ctrl-#

My comments:

It would be nice to be able to have some way to change the key.

And also a button that i can put on my navigation bar would be great.

Thank you very much for this great tool!

Jordan Sissel wrote at Wed Apr 15 08:44:38 2009...

I'm pretty sure you can use the keyconfig extension to change the key binding.

Casey Jones wrote at Wed Jul 8 15:40:35 2009...

Thanks a lot, Jordan! I've just downloaded your extension and haven't yet installed but, based on the screenshot, it looks like precisely what I had dreamed of!

Ashcroft wrote at Thu Jul 16 12:37:15 2009...

Great tool! Thanks a lot! Also beats https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10164/ for me!

Works fine with FF 3.0.12, too! Haven't tested it with FF 3.5 yet, though.

Could you please implement a way to lock the current filter/selection for a while. This way this tool would become even more useful. I think that's similar to what Alexey Romanov and Kai Mai were asking for, too! Right now any input outside the search box would reset the filter!

Tobias wrote at Mon Aug 31 08:02:32 2009...

Awesome! Best FF Add-on ever! (works with latest 3.5 too)

Well at least for everyone who has like 23479823479284724 Tabs opened all the time, me for example.

Thanks a lot dude!

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