aaemnnosttv / quick-tab-switcher

Browser extension for switching tabs in a flash, without leaving the keyboard.

Quick Tab Switcher ⚡

A cross-browser extension for switching and managing tabs in a flash, without leaving the keyboard.

Overview

This extension is currently only working in Chrome, and not yet available in the webstore.

Installation (Chrome)

Clone the repository

$ git clone [email protected]:aaemnnosttv/quick-tab-switcher.git
$ cd quick-tab-switcher

Install dependencies

$ yarn

Build the extension files

$ yarn run build

Add extension in Chrome

• Open the chrome://extensions page
• Check the box for Developer Mode in the top right corner if it isn't already
• Click the button to Load Unpacked Extension
• Navigate to {path-to-cloned-quick-tab-switcher-directory}/browsers/chrome/ and click Select

That's it! The extension is now loaded.

Configuring the hotkey to toggle the switcher

By default, the hotkey to toggle the switcher is Cmd + K (Mac) or Ctrl + K (Win). To change this, open the chrome://extensions page, scroll to the bottom and click the link for Keyboard shortcuts.

Choose whichever key you want to toggle the switcher. I plan on making this more accessible in the future as well.

Hotkeys

In addition to toggling the switcher, you may also perform the following actions while the switcher is active:

• Ctrl + J Move selected/highlighted tab down
• Ctrl + K Move selected/highlighted tab up
• Ctrl + X Close the selected/highlighted tab
• Enter or Return Switch to the selected/highlighted tab
• Esc Close the switcher

Note that Ctrl is used for all platforms for these hotkeys, and they are currently not changeable.

Acknowledgements

This extension is largely inspired by Fast Tab Switcher. I wanted to build a similar extension which would work cross-browser; not just for Chrome.

As this extension is built with Vue, the Vue Devtools extension source was a very useful example of a cross-browser extension with Vue.