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All features currently work on Firefox except for the favicons. Favicons cannot be accessed in Firefox extensions, so some changes would be needed for it.

Webpage titles are absent in some rare cases and in those cases, the URL has a margin at the top. This margin should not be there and the URL should be vertically aligned center with respect to the favicon.

Currently unTab shows the search results for all the currently opened tabs but there is no provision to close the tabs right from the unTab window itself. We have to go to the respective window and either close it with the cursor or use ctrl+w or make use of tab actions (which closes only the currently open tab).

If there would be a hot-key or a button combination like ctrl+c to close the opened tab right from the unTab results window, it would be great enhancement.

The user will only have to navigate to the respective tab which they wish to close using the arrow keys and then the highlighted tab would then be closed using the provision provided.

Taking inspiration from advanced ways of making searches in Google, I propose features including but not limited to the following features:

1. Search for a specific site

The unTab query to show results under history and bookmarks from a specific website

url:<site> <search-query-here> 

2. Remove searches related to a specific keyword or site

The unTab query to show results under history and bookmarks, not from a specific website

exclude:<keyword> <search-query-here>

These are a few of the many creative query ideas we can build to enhance the search queries for hardcore unTab users. Please let me know if this enhancement can be included.

While Google's search API is not available for free, we can try integrating with the DuckDuckGo Instant answer API in some way.
https://duckduckgo.com/api

This integration would be available in the DuckDuckGo search plugin and would show the results from the user's query.

Plugins API should be documented inorder to make Plugin creation easier for new contributors. This would be documented in the GitHub wiki for the time being.

Currently tabs are searched only by their title and urls. Tab page content may be added to the index that would make it easier to search in pages without having to use Ctrl+F.

The unTab window, on some websites might not be distinguishable at all from the background. Example given below 👍

Thus inclusion of a border around the outermost container div would really help distinguish the unTab window from all kinds of background.

It would be great to type in certain keywords such as #ls localStorage and be able to view if there are any localStorage items present. The usual way of doing it involves slightly more steps.

A possible way to encode these actions could be to have them in the following format:

action entity {entity-identifier}

Where action can be :

• listing items (#ls localStorage)
• permanently deleting an item (#rm localStorage {key})

The entity identifier will be optional since it depends on the use case.

The keywords for actions can be similar to bash commands to keep familiarity. This feature could then be scaled to incorporate things like cookies, session storage, etc.

If possible, these type of commands could have their own dedicated input/tab section where we can type it out. Toggling between the two (commands input and search input) could be provided via some hotkey or if the design could incorporate a visual cue to clearly hint if the input tab is in search mode or commands mode that would be great.

A possible way to do so could be to replace the search icon with an appropriate command icon upon the press of the toggle hotkey.

Another possible way could be to hand this just like we handle plugins. Once the user enters / the tab shows the available plugins. In a similar fashion if the above commands can be shown upon entering # then it would be great.

Bundling the fonts will not make a network request each time untab's frame is injected, increasing performance. As it injects the frame into the page, the font loading (might) block the loading of other content request by the website itself. Also, if we open untab while some page asset is still loading, the asset loading is cancelled and further requests are blocked until untab's fonts are loaded

The most active tab can be defined as the tab which the user visits most.
This parameter can be used to rank the results better where the more visited tabs show higher in the results.

Steps to replicate the issue

1. Open a couple of tabs in the web browser (we shall refer to these tabs as formers). Make sure that when these tabs are opened, unTab isn't added as an extension.
2. Now, add unTab as an extension.
3. Open some more tabs now (we shall refer to these as latters).

One could notice that upon trying to open the unTab window in the formers it does not open, however when we try to do the same in latters it works fine. What causes this issue?

A request to add the question label as welll to this issue.

Few examples

1. appending outline.com/ before a web article removes all the clutter from the page
2. replacing github.com/user/repo with github1s.com/user/repo opens the repo in an online vscode editor
3. appending ss before a youtube link leads to page where the video can be downloaded

#35 is a special case of this functionality

Feature request: Ability to SELECT multiple tabs and close them at once.

This is a really great project. Thank you so much.

Hunting for the tab from where the sound is coming out of all the open tabs is a bit painful and time-consuming. If the results for tabs section could be listed in a manner such that all the tabs from which the sound is coming are listed before other open tabs then it would be much easier and quicker to navigate to the correct tab and take care of the unwanted audio/music playing in the tab.

This would be a really helpful feature.

Content script appends the UnTab iframe to the body of the page. For file URLs, the DOM is not present which causes the following error.

The unTab window displays the total number of matching results at the top. It would be a good add-on to be able to see the section-wise count of the matching results. The count could be shown at the beginning of the header indicating the section name.

A reference :

Currently, the results that are being displayed, show the close and pin options always. Would it be possible to display these options only when the option is selected/hovered upon? That would improve the experience and make it look cleaner.

Building on that, additional useful action words can be shown such as Open Bookmark at the end of a bookmark result. Which currently is not shown.

Currently unTab supports two features for the tabs section results:

1. Close Tab
2. Pin Tab

An addition of the bookmark tab in the form of a bookmark icon would be really helpful too.

Right now I would have to download the project, get dependencies and built the project before using it.
It would be really helpful if a prebuilt version is available as a GitHub release.

The unTab window shows results for all the currently open tabs in the browser windows. It would be great if it could show the currently active tab in a certain way.

I would propose the following two ways, although the developer must feel free to incorporate the feature as per his own liking.

1. Use a different color to highlight the currently active tab
2. Use an asterisk before the tab icon to represent the tab is currently active.

Inspired by this theme https://rainglow.io/preview/#horizon on Rainglow, here's a similar theme for UnTab.
Feel free to suggest a name for this theme.

Note: Colors need not be exact, as above picture was created as a reference.

I keep this open for the community to suggest logos for this project. Would add concepts from my side too in the coming weeks.

Would love to use this on Suspended Tabs as well. Is there a way to get it to work on Suspended Tabs?

I am using "The Marvellous Suspender" :)

When the search term does not match any item, we can show a message informing the user that nothing was found instead of not showing anything.

Some points from design:

• color used for the text and icon is --gray-600 from the theme
• size of the text is 18px (use rems in code)
• size of the icon is 24px x 24px
• icon used is the frown icon

Really awesome plugin, can't wait to see where you take it!!

One feature request that would really help improve my workflow and use of this extension would be if the default sort, after triggering the extension, was by most recently used.

Often times I want to switch tabs and I don't remember the title but I do know that I was using it recently, similar to alt-tab.

Maybe implement this as a plugin where the sites in the browser's history can be queried and the selected result would open that URL in a new tab.

Feature request: Duplicate tab auto closer

Webextension-polyfill is created by mozilla and is a polyfill for the promise-based browser API available only in Firefox only. Migrating to this can improve #4 and development experience as well since we are mostly wrapping the chrome API in Promises and consuming them.

https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill/
Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Build_a_cross_browser_extension#The_WebExtension_browser_API_Polyfill

Analytics from development conflict with real usage of the extension, hence we should disable it by adding some "Development build" process.

Clicking the extension icon in the extensions bar should open the UnTab search similar to how Ctrl+Shift+Space opens the interface.
This can be particularly useful when the user may not recall the shortcut.

A plugin that would open the typed URL in the input in a new tab.

Current problem

The plugins are currently shown only if their regex is matched. While this covers many use cases, there are already some plugins that only match when the query beings with / and then matches some pattern. Examples:

• Google search: /g or /google
• DuckDuckGo search: /d or /duck /duckduckgo
• Tab actions: /t or /tab

As the number of plugins increases, there will be cases where multiple plugins match similar patterns (if they are small). To resolve this plugin searching can be added for these special types of plugins that begin with /.

Proposed solution ✨

• Similar to the autocomplete menu in code editors, a special plugin search menu may be shown when the query begins with / which would show a list of plugins that are currently active.
• Typing anything after / would be considered as a query that would search in the list of plugins. When the user chooses a plugin (using arrows to navigate and enter to select), all items related to only that plugin would show up.
• The user can then continue typing the query to search through the plugin items (similar to the current behavior).

But doesn't this seem like increasing the steps to search for something? 🤔
It initially did feel as if the number of steps would increase. But thinking about it more, it actually doesn't! When regex was used for matching patterns, the user had to be careful about what they are typing (so that it matches the pattern and shows the results). Whereas in this approach, after typing / plugins would be fuzzy searched against the query thus decreasing the scope of errors. Selecting the plugin might feel like an extra step but selecting a plugin would just be Enter which technically replaces Space usually needed after /g or /d right now.

What would the plugins be searched against? 🤔
Plugins would be searched against their display name (which is shown to the user) and a set of keys defined for the plugin. Example: for Google search plugin, it could be [ 'g', 'google' ].

.new domain is used for various shortcuts on the internet. Maybe we can create a plugin called new-shortcuts that has a small set of common productivity tools listed here https://whats.new/shortcuts

This plugin can be accessed by doing /new and then typing the name of the shortcut.

I'd love to be able to search for "https://github.com" and then with a simple small button "Move all results to new window".

Thank you for consideration.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions

From #12 we should have a CI setup to add built version of the extension as an asset in the release

Despite using the unique key combination of Ctrl+Shift+Space I am unable to open the unTab window. I have tried to uninstall and re-install the extension again in chrome but unfortunately, I haven't been able to use it. The extension was working fine 3 days ago.

A point to be noted is that I am able to access the unTab window after clicking on the icon under my listed extensions. But that kind of defeats the purpose of not using touchpad.

Additionally, I have even tried restarting the browser application. Even that did fix the issue. Could you please let me know how to get it to work again?

Some screens like Browser new tab, settings and few others cannot have a content script embedded in them. This makes it impossible to open UnTab and requires the user to switch to a tab with some webpage open.

Since UnTab already has index.html as a web-accessible resource which gets loaded in an iframe via the content script, for these special pages, we can directly open the URL itself in a new tab.

Hello again,

Sorry for taking such an interest in your project, but I do want to make it better. Right now, I've managed to get a window.matchMedia working to listen for the current browser theme. Would you prefer to append a class to the elements (something like dark or light) or do you have anything else in mind?

The total results count shown is not pluralized correctly and it shows 1 results instead of 1 result when there is only one result found.

I just installed this and instantly loved the extension.

But I rarely use bookmarks now and I know many people who use a read later service as a bookmark tool as well.

It would be great to see 3rd party integrations such as InstaPaper and Pocket for the search results, It might be slow but if I want pocket's result, I'm okay to wait.

Right now, it's impossible, at first glance or scrolling back up, to know whether the user is looking at tabs or history. Making the categories stick at the top of the results should help.

I'm not familiar with Svelte, however, for sticky to work, there needs to be a div surrounding both the category div and the appropriate results.

The addition of a /Scholar Search as a plugin would really save some time while trying to search google scholar for desired results. When looking up research papers, articles, reports, etc students and developers tend to make use of google scholar for refined search results. doing the same would become much faster with the addition of a /Scholar Search plugin.

The dialog doesn't close unless I press esc, having to click outside the box to close would be a nice addition

The unTab window opens only in those tabs which aren't empty. If we open a new tab and try to open unTab window by pressing ctrl+shift+space then it does not open. It would be really helpful if we could open unTab window even in empty tabs.

Bookmark searching can be added as a plugin almost exactly as how history searching is implemented right now.

Feature request: Ability to chance the height and width and font size and font type.

That would be highly appreciated :-)

A blue theme(suggest a better name!) for UnTab. Here's a small preview of what it can look like
Note: Colors may not be exact, as an image with the spearmint theme was photoshopped to get this!