Show HN: Fuzzy finder for Chrome tabs and windows (opens in new tab)

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41 pointssina10y ago12 comments

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Orthogonal: 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.

Houshalter10y ago

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.

gcr10y ago

The '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!

leppr10y ago

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.

[1]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Easier_buffer_switching

[2]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Houshalter10y ago

"Apps extensions and user scripts cannot be added from this website."

Is there any way around this? Is it possible to jailbreak Chrome?

dylz10y ago

open the extensions tab, and drag the crx link from github into the extensions tab

continue button appears bottom left

Houshalter10y ago

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.

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benvan10y ago

Heh, I made one of these a while back :)

https://github.com/benvan/mercury

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joe515010y ago

Houshalter10y ago

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.

gcr10y ago

The '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.

leppr10y ago

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.

[1]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Easier_buffer_switching

[2]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Houshalter10y ago

"Apps extensions and user scripts cannot be added from this website."

Is there any way around this? Is it possible to jailbreak Chrome?

dylz10y ago

open the extensions tab, and drag the crx link from github into the extensions tab

continue button appears bottom left

Houshalter10y ago

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.

1 more reply

benvan10y ago

Heh, I made one of these a while back :)

https://github.com/benvan/mercury

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