Step 1: I press Ctrl+Shift+Space to activate the tab search. The popup looks like this:
Step 2: I type “hack”. The popup looks like this:
Step 3: I want to go to the tab that is the first search result. I press enter to “select” the result, and enter again to go to the tab.
How the feature should work
I would like step 3 to only require one enter press to go to the tab. The first item in the list should always be automatically activated before I even type anything. If this was the case, pressing enter would automatically go to the first tab, and pressing down would highlight the second result (not the first).
Basically, I’m asking for this to work the same way Chrome’s tab search functionality works. When the tab search shortcut is pressed, the popup shows up and the first item is already highlighted:
When I type “hack”, the Hacker News result is highlighted automatically:
At this point, I only need to press enter once to go to that tab.
How it works now
Step 1: I press Ctrl+Shift+Space to activate the tab search. The popup looks like this:
Step 2: I type “hack”. The popup looks like this:
Step 3: I want to go to the tab that is the first search result. I press enter to “select” the result, and enter again to go to the tab.
How the feature should work
I would like step 3 to only require one enter press to go to the tab. The first item in the list should always be automatically activated before I even type anything. If this was the case, pressing enter would automatically go to the first tab, and pressing down would highlight the second result (not the first).
Basically, I’m asking for this to work the same way Chrome’s tab search functionality works. When the tab search shortcut is pressed, the popup shows up and the first item is already highlighted:
When I type “hack”, the Hacker News result is highlighted automatically:
At this point, I only need to press enter once to go to that tab.