343846 - search tab titles for text

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[salsaman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729

I would like to be able to search open tabs for some text in the tabs.

For example, if I have a lot of tabs open, and I know one of them is for Google news, I would like to somehow enter the text "Google news" and have that tab open up.

The tab tooltips could be used to match my entered text against the current tabs.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open "search in tabs" dialog
2. Enter some text
3. Text is matched against tab tooltips
4. Mozilla opens the first tab which matches my entered text

Comment 1

[Ryan Jones-Ward [:sciguyryan]]

Found dupe for Camino (bug 185916) but not for Firefox. Mrking as new unless someone disagrees?

Comment 2

[salsaman]

I read the comments on the other bug. I agree that it should have the same options as "search in page", i.e find forwards, find back, wrap around and match case.

As for the utility, it would be VERY useful. After a while of browsing, I have 20-30 tabs open, and so it is impossible to see the tab titles. I know for a fact that one of my tabs is Google news, but I can't find which one unless I either click or cycle through all tabs, or I hover the mouse over where I guess the tab is. What happens is, each time I want Google news, I end up opening a new tab. This ends up with about 5 tabs opened at that page. Since the page has an autorefresh, this starts to noticably slow the network, since I now have 5 pages all autorefreshing.

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

Reveal (the extension) allows you to do this.

Comment 4

[salsaman]

I am using mozilla, Reveal seems to be Firefox only.

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

If you want this to be fixed in SeaMonkey, then you filed it in the wrong product...

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

Do you want to find text in page bodies (like in bug 328613) or just in page titles?

Comment 7

[salsaman]

Just the titles. I changed the summary to "Search tab titles for text" to make it clearer.

It would be nice if it could be fixed in mozilla/sea-monkey as well as firefox.

Comment 9

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

Attachment: adds search box to all tabs popup

I wrote this as an extension, and some one pointed out that there was an open bug asking for it.

Comment 10

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Ooo, me want. Can you request review and ui-review on the patch? Would be nice to get into Firefox 3. :)

justdave wrote a blog post on why something like this would be useful -- http://www.justdave.net/dave/2007/11/29/trying-to-find-that-long-lost-tab/

Comment 11

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

This doesn't necessarily address justdave's request since it only searches the tabs in a given window.  There's been some suggestions in the discussion on my blog of searching the tabs in other windows as well as the history of tabs.  Perhaps once you begin typing this functionality could kick in, but for now this patch only searches what already appears in your all tabs popup.

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Created an attachment (id=295900) [details]
> adds search box to all tabs popup
> 
> I wrote this as an extension, and some one pointed out that there was an open
> bug asking for it.

glad I found you blassey :)  

yeah, for this to be totally awesomely productive it needs to cross window boundaries.  justdave's semi-related bug is 405933
then we'll be able to keep FF open for 2 months instead of just one.

Comment 13

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

(In reply to comment #10)
> Ooo, me want. Can you request review and ui-review on the patch? Would be nice
> to get into Firefox 3. :)

It seems pretty late in the Fx 3 game for the patch to go in.

But interesting enhancement, nonetheless.

Comment 14

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Brad, if you take a screenshot (or a few) of the interaction of this, I'd be happy to take on the ui-r.

Comment 15

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Comment on attachment 295900 [details] [diff] [review]
adds search box to all tabs popup

obsoleted by dao's all tabs work

Comment 16

[Jesse Ruderman]

A fix for bug 455650 would take care of this.

Comment 17

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

I think we can close this out since both all-tabs and tab candy has implemented a solution for it.