Show HN: Fuzzy finder for Chrome tabs and windows
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Re: Show HN: Fuzzy finder for Chrome tabs and windows
#2Orthogonal: I want Chrome to have fuzzy searching for history and bookmarks, like Firefox does. As it is, if I don't either type in the first part of a website's actual URL or some unpredictable magic string into the omnibox, I just get search suggestions instead of useful autocompletes from my history. In Firefox it works perfectly.
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#3The 'chromium' plugin has some fuzzy tab searching. From any page, tap `b` and type in a substring of a page title to match. It's quite nice.
I always liked the model of browser tabs as buffers rather than tabs. It reminds me of the philosophy difference between vim and emacs: since accessing a certain tab is O(N), Vim gets unwieldy if I have more tabs open than I have horizontal screen space. On the other hand, I have more than 500 Emacs buffers open and never have to worry when I switch between them. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to use Chrome that way too!
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#4Heh, I made one of these a while back :)
Re: Show HN: Fuzzy finder for Chrome tabs and windows
#5The 'chromium' plugin has some fuzzy tab searching. From any page, tap `b` and type in a substring of a page title to match. It's quite nice. I always liked the model of browser tabs as buffers rather than tabs. It reminds me of the philosophy difference between vim and emacs: since accessing a certain tab is O(N), Vim gets unwieldy if I have more tabs open than I have horizontal screen space. On the other hand, I ha…
Just FYI Vim is buffer-based too [1], windows (tabs) are a layer on top. There's also a nice plugin called fzf [2] for fuzzy searching open buffers or tabs.
Re: Show HN: Fuzzy finder for Chrome tabs and windows
#6Orthogonal: I want Chrome to have fuzzy searching for history and bookmarks, like Firefox does. As it is, if I don't either type in the first part of a website's actual URL or some unpredictable magic string into the omnibox, I just get search suggestions instead of useful autocompletes from my history. In Firefox it works perfectly.
I really don't want that to happen, because I have, um, embarrassing things bookmarked. Typing things into the url bar with other people around is already somewhat of a risk.
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#7"Apps extensions and user scripts cannot be added from this website."
Is there any way around this? Is it possible to jailbreak Chrome?
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#8"Apps extensions and user scripts cannot be added from this website." Is there any way around this? Is it possible to jailbreak Chrome?
open the extensions tab, and drag the crx link from github into the extensions tab
continue button appears bottom left
Re: Show HN: Fuzzy finder for Chrome tabs and windows
#9"Apps extensions and user scripts cannot be added from this website." Is there any way around this? Is it possible to jailbreak Chrome?
open the extensions tab, and drag the crx link from github into the extensions tab continue button appears bottom left
That worked, but when I restarted chrome, it was automatically disabled: https://i.imgur.com/zDEdoeK.png
The button to enable it on the extensions page is greyed out with a warning.
Re: Show HN: Fuzzy finder for Chrome tabs and windows
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
open the extensions tab, and drag the crx link from github into the extensions tab continue button appears bottom left
That worked, but when I restarted chrome, it was automatically disabled: https://i.imgur.com/zDEdoeK.png The button to enable it on the extensions page is greyed out with a warning.
Are you in developer mode? If not, enable "Developer mode" and try again. It's at the top of the chrome://extensions/ tab.