Add Tab Sorting to items in Unopened Window

cxw42 / TabFern

Google Chrome extension for saving and restoring sets of tabs, and for switching between windows and tabs from a vertical, grouped list.

https://cxw42.github.io/TabFern/

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Add Tab Sorting to items in Unopened Window #159

Open philiprhoades opened 5 years ago

philiprhoades commented 5 years ago

I have used various window tab sorting extensions forever but now that I am TF centric, it would be nice to also sort tabs within an unopened window. Of course, for a window with a small number of tabs, it is still relatively quick and easy for me to open the window with ALL the tabs, sort and save - but it would be nice to be able to sort a window with a large number of tabs without having to open the window to do it because that is very slow - it grinds my (relatively fast) PC to a halt for some minutes . .

cxw42 commented 5 years ago

Sort by title, URL, other criteria, some combination? Tell me a bit more about your use case. Are you still using other extensions to sort open windows, and if so, which ones? Thanks!

philiprhoades commented 5 years ago

For me it would be almost always sorting by URL.

I attach an image of a TF window manually sorted - for some exercises I spend a lot of time looking at lots of different options and, typically, end up with a window with so many tabs it is hard to find my way around. A help in these sorts of situations is grouping the tabs together for the different domains ie sorting the tabs by their URLs.

The current tab sorter that suits me best is:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-sorter/nlnkcinjjeoojlhdiedbbolilahmnldj

cxw42 commented 5 years ago

Thanks! Sounds pretty straightforward; labeled as such.

philiprhoades commented 3 years ago

I just thought - would there be a way of doing this by getting access to the stored data directly (while exited from the browser)? If the data is in a DB of some sort, a sort should be able to be done?

philiprhoades commented 2 years ago

Following up my last comment - I did work out how to do what I asked but it is too much work except for unusual circumstances - I really need to be able to do it within TF . . I am guessing you are still very short of time though and not getting much help still - is it something I could help with somehow? I am guessing it might be faster for you to just do it rather than explaining a lot of things to me - but maybe it might be worth it so that I get more familiar with the code?

cxw42 commented 2 years ago

I would certainly appreciate the help! You are correct that there is more work than developer time.

Would you be willing to be in a Zoom recording? Maybe I could give you a live overview of the codebase sometime, and post the recording for other potential contributors' benefit.

philiprhoades commented 1 year ago

Chris,

Back again! . . sorry about the delay - since I "retired" I have been trying to keep too many balls in the air and, this year, there have been a number of life circumstances to deal with . .

Yes, happy to do a Zoom whenever we can find a mutually convenient time. Actually it would probably help if I go and have a look at "my first chrome extension" exercise again before you start to explain things . .

Are you on Telegram? - it would be convenient for me to have chats there: AT philip UNDERSCORE rhoades