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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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Have tree-less tab bar replacement view #95

Open BugZappr opened 6 years ago

BugZappr commented 6 years ago

I'd just like to use TF as a tab bar replacement. I imagine that TF could have an option to live as a sort of replacement tab bar for Google's awful tab bar. I keep it open in a column to the left of a single browser window. The top-level tree view takes up valuable pixels in a vertical bar to the left of the tab. I think TF might just only show the tabs in the active window, changing them when another gets activated. True, it might not always be to the left of the newly activated window, but I can resize TF and the windows so that TF is always in a little vertical bar to the left of my active window.

cxw42 commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the request! Do you want any saving of tabs, or just the vertical display per window? If the latter, I would recommend a separate extension. Snapping the tab list to the open window is not too hard. It would be nicer if Chrome supported sidebars, of course, but as far as I know it does not.

cxw42 commented 6 years ago

See further discussion in #93

BugZappr commented 6 years ago

It could be a separate extension. There are many like it. The existing ones work poorly: either they don't remember their window position on re-opening the browser, they have small unsizeable windows, they have windows that are sections of webpages that don't always show up, or one (under development) doesn't even allow clicking on a tab in its tab bar to activate the tab. Some are unreliable at activating the current tab. Some don't show the URL as a tooltip when one of their tabs is hovered over. I did a shoot-out of all I could find recently. It would also be helpful if anytime a new tab is activated, that tab is selected in the tab bar.

One argument for not making it a separate extension, is that you wouldn't have to duplicate much of your code-base in another project to maintain; but in either case, I am suggesting a per-window vertical tabs, except one that works. Another reason might be users who might want to switch between the two views quickly. If you think of the now lost vertical tabs in Chrome, and the existing one in Vivaldi, I'd say they are evidently per-window. That would make of Tab Fern, a sort of tab bar works, IMHO: whatever 90%+ people would need in a vertical tab bar.

cxw42 commented 6 years ago

I will give this some thought. The point about duplication is well made, but will be less of an issue after #4. I also note that TabFern doesn't have URL-as-tooltip - feel free to open another issue of that's of interest to you in TF as it is now. Thanks!

Edit URL-as-tooltip is #104