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Thu, 01 May 2008

firefox tabsearch extension - tab searching == win.

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

Comments: 5 (view comments)

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posted at: 02:46

5 responses to 'firefox tabsearch extension - tab searching == win.'

Cheston posted at Wed May 23 12:02:42 2007...

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

John posted at Wed Sep 19 11:17:34 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 posted at Sun Dec 23 14:13:46 2007...

That's a nice and useful one :-)

Alexey Romanov posted at Wed Apr 16 01:21:15 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.

Kai Mai posted at Mon Aug 25 21:40:20 2008...

Thank you for writing this great extension.
just what I need to navigate my long list of tab.

Can you make a shortcut for selecting a tab in the search result? like control+shift+{a number} where the number is the index of the tab.

note that the shortcut control+ {a number} is already in used by the tax mix plus extension.

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