Ability to search in Tabs Outliner DB ?

[macsunmood]

Hello! First of all thank you for the great extension, it's really useful and well-done.

My feature request may come as something extremely important for hundreds of thousands of TO users out there. One of the lacking (but crucial) options in Tabs Outliner extension is ability to filter search tabs and windows/groups titles ! Sadly, Tabs Outliner is currently abandoned, thus making hopeless the forthcoming of any new useful features.

Adding this option to Quick Tabs will make the use of both these chrome extensions in conjunction a great, level-up UI experience. The Quick Tabs solution may play the game!

P.S. Btw, TO db is simply an sqlite3, storing table with hierarchy of tabs in json. Unfortunately I'm not yet enough proficient in JS to be able to fully contribute.

[jaekyeom]

As a Tabs Outliner user I would love this feature, but I'm not sure if accessing TO's data from this extension without modifying TO is even possible.

[macsunmood]

As a Tabs Outliner user I would love this feature, but I'm not sure if accessing TO's data from this extension without modifying TO is even possible.

@jaekyeom Do you mean some additional permissions needed to read the local db file? Could certainly be the case..

[jaekyeom]

@macsunmood Afaik, yes. Actually, I believe it should be more hacky than just additional permissions to do that (e.g., writing a native application that reads and passes the DB for Quick Tabs, storing TO's DB in a synced storage service and reading it from Quick Tabs, ...).

[macsunmood]

@jaekyeom what do you think about back engineering TO ?

[SamHasler]

@macsunmood are you aware of the Tab Fern extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabfern-tab-manager-and-b/hbajjpcdbninabigakflkhiogmmjaakm https://github.com/cxw42/TabFern

It's not got all the features of Tab Outliner but contributing to that would probably be quicker than starting from scratch.

[macsunmood]

@SamHasler I'm quite aware of it and have been using it for a while, and, pardon me, it heavily sucks against the background of TO in terms of UI/UX and overall GUI speed. I really doubt it would be the good way, and TO has all the scripts open in it's core folder, it's just a great pity I'm not very proficient in JS to be able to reasonably back engineer it (I code python 95% time myself).

[macsunmood]

@SamHasler are you interested in reverse engineering some TO guts and making it orders of magnitude better? :)

[jaekyeom]

@jaekyeom what do you think about back engineering TO ?

I'm not sure what you meant by back engineering exactly, but I can't imagine a clean working solution to this issue 😢

[SamHasler]

@macsunmood my time is limited. I'd rather contribute incremental improvements to an existing open source project than start a project of my own from scratch. I might have some time soon (a few hours) to work on some Tab Fern improvements and that's it.

[rubycoder]

@jaekyeom I think back engineering == reverse engineering

[macsunmood]

@rubycoder you're right. TO is currently still the best browser tabs management extension on the planet. Abandoned.

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