342831 - Simple way to jump to currently visible tabs with the keyboard

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, enhancement)

Description

[Håkan Waara]

I just got an idea for a nifty feature.

One of my friends was complaining the other day that cmd-number doesn't jump to the nth tab.  

Apparently, he has lots of tabs open, and likes to switch between - say - tab 2 and tab 12 easily.   

I find it hard to remember arbitrary numbers like that, so we could do something like this:

When a certain command is pressed down, say cmd-alt-ctrl, all tabs would "darken out" and show numbers on them.  Then you could go on to press cmd-alt-ctrl-number to go to that tab.  The details might need some work, but I think it could be very useful.

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

How would you go to tab 10+?

Comment 2

[Håkan Waara]

(In reply to comment #1)
> How would you go to tab 10+?
> 

You can't with this feature, it's only for the visible tabs.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Could we make it so that we lock focus out of the content area of all visible tabs while the numbers were up, and then you could just hit a number to jump to that tab? It'd be easier than hitting the shortcut once, then looking at a tab number, then hitting the shortcut plus the number again. Four-key shortcuts are REALLY challenging for most people.

cl

Comment 4

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

if we do tab expose, we could have #s be shortcuts for the first N tabs. just a thought.....

Comment 5

[Håkan Waara]

Another idea materialized: Make the Cmd-<num> feature visible by "darkening" them. We could show the shortcut above each bookmark (e.g., "Cmd-1" (with the real sign for "Cmd")).

Cl: in comment 3, do you mean that we could make it a "sticky" shortcut?

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Another idea materialized: Make the Cmd-<num> feature visible by "darkening"
> them. We could show the shortcut above each bookmark (e.g., "Cmd-1" (with the
> real sign for "Cmd")).
> 
> Cl: in comment 3, do you mean that we could make it a "sticky" shortcut?

Basically, here's what I'm thinking would happen.

1) User hits some defined shortcut.
2) Camino overlays its entire window with a darker translucent layer, sort of an "inverse" Exposé. The tab bar would be its normal colour, with numbers overlaid on open tabs (the first 10, probably, to be reasonable).
3) User presses a number 1 through 0 to jump to the numbered tab, and the visual effect goes away, returning to normal browsing.

I basically envision what you described in the bug as an implementation of "tab exposé". Like Exposé, there's no reason we couldn't have multiple modes of exposing tabs, just as Exposé has multiple modes of exposing windows (per-app, global, or push everything out of the way so you can see the desktop).

cl

Comment 7

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

*** Bug 359629 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

The bug I just duped to this has some potentially interesting implementation ideas:

> So if I currently have the following tabs open it would function as follows:
> [Gmail - Inbox (3)] [Enter A Bug] [Google]
>
> I could hit option+tab to enable, then if I typed E it would bold the Enter A
> Bug tab and select it if I hit enter. If I instead paused a few seconds and
> then typed Gm it would select Gmail tab and then open it if I hit enter, etc.

Comment 9

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This bug has been buried in the graveyard and has not been updated in over 5 years. It is probably safe to assume that it will never be fixed, so resolving as WONTFIX.

[Mass-change filter: graveyard-wontfix-2014-09-24]