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Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs

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This extension can be made without a content script and with many fewer permissions. You should look into https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/commands to see how to properly integrate keyboard shortcuts, and https://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_window for the floating UI.

Unfortunately, Chrome extensions are not allowed to use chrome.app.window.create (which you will need to make the floating UI without modifying the content page), so you will need to convert your extension into an app to use this API.

That's a great idea. Two suggestions though:

- this only seems to search the page title. As such it provides a limited value;

- I'd love to be able to navigate through results using my keyboard;

Also, I think you should be explicit about using tracking (Google Analytics).

Or at least make it opt-out.

You're right! I was in a hurry building this; just made an issue https://github.com/fouad/chrome-tablight/issues/2

A screenshot or demo on the page would be very valuable, so I know what's going to happen before I install!

Sweet. I've been using Vimium (http://vimium.github.io/) which has something similar but it shows bookmarks and history and what not. I wanted something to do the same but for the current tabs. Thanks.

Can you make it so I don't have to click on the dropped down tabs? Instead I want to just use my cursor to select one.

Also, I noticed if I am in a different window, it will show tabs in the dropdown for tabs in other windows but if I click them nothing happens. Is that just me, or not possible?

ESC button to exit the searching.

(Notice it's open source but don't have time right now to dig into it, but maybe in the future!)

You can search your current tabs on Vimium using shift-t.

I didn't know this! Thanks.

I didn't know that either and that made me look at all the other options and features that Vimium offers. So many things I didn't know about! :)

Thanks for making me look! (it's like vim, there's always more to learn)

Nice! For my own purposes I once started on a Chrome extension like this: TabSwitch (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-switch/jibghim...), that uses a Most Recently Used ordered list and searches for domain and page title.

I really like that you have the interface on top of the web page itself!

Looks nice. For similar functionality I currently use Quick Tabs:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-tabs/jnjfein...

This is nice. But the shortcut you've given 'Cmd/Ctrl + O' should be 'Cmd + Ctrl + O'

thanks! will add customizable shortcuts https://github.com/fouad/chrome-tablight/issues/1

Awesome plugin and yes! please do

I wasn't able to get the hotkey working until after I restarted Chrome. After that, I could use both [CMD] + O and [CTRL] + O on my Mac.

Awesome, thank you!

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