Quick Tabs Ported
Ported version from the Chrome extension Quick Tabs, with a few small tweaks. Their description reads: A keyboard centric most recently used (MRU) ordered tab list plugin with search and switch functionality inspired by IntelliJ IDEA
Quick Tabs Ported - Firefox Add-on
Quick Tabs Ported is a Firefox add-on that provides a user-friendly tab switching experience. It lists all open tabs, excluding the current one, in most recently used order. You can search for tabs, bookmarks, and browser history using fuzzy search. The add-on also allows you to customize keyboard shortcuts and provides various shortcut keys for tab navigation. Additionally, it displays the number of open tabs and tracks recently closed tabs for easy restoration.
Add-on stats
Weekly download count: 5
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact 
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- tabs
- bookmarks
- history
Size: 123.60K
Email: al*****@gmail.com
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Add-on summary
A user who switched from Chrome to Firefox said this addon was the thing they missed the most about Chrome. I checked it out and as it had very good reviews, I decided to port it to Firefox. I made a few tweaks to make the shortcuts customizeable in Firefox in the Options page. Note that for the time being, I have disabled the previous/next tab in history shortcut implementation, because it seemed buggy, until I can figure out what the problem is.
Features (taken from the Chrome Web Store edition)
- Lists all the open tabs in Chrome across all of your open windows
- Tabs are listed in most recently used (MRU) order and excludes the current tab (since you're switching tabs)
- Fuzzy search your bookmarks:
- Bookmarks are automatically searched when only a few tabs match your search string
- Add a space at the start or end of your search string to search bookmarks along with tabs
- Add two spaces at the start or end of your search string to search only bookmarks
- Fuzzy search your browser history:
- Add three spaces at the start or end of your search string to search browser history
- Find noisy tabs by searching for '<))' (then close them all with shift+ctrl+d ;-))
- Chrome keyboard shortcuts (configured using the keyboard shortcuts dialog at the bottom of the Chrome Extensions page):
- Shortcut key to launch popup window from most tabs (default ctrl+e, cmd+e on Mac, ctrl+q on Linux).
User reviews
Very useful addon when you reguarly have lots of tabs opened. Only major issue is poor search peformance as one gets done on every keystroke. This means that a search gets done after entering every single character which is useless.
This can be fixed with the following simple change to popup.js in order to only search when the string is 3 characters or longer.
On line 665 of popup.js:
Change:
if (!this.shouldSearch(query)) {
to:
if (!this.shouldSearch(query) || query.trim().length < 3) {
Hopefully the above fix can be implemented in a future add-on version. A user configuration option could also be added to specify the minimum length instead of having it hardcoded to 3.
by pwrsurge, 2024-12-06
by rsuan, 2024-07-19
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Quick Tabs Ported requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Quick Tabs Ported has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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