My firefox-tabsearch extension (as mentioned by Sylvain) might have appeared on addons.mozilla.org, except I gave up after finding myself drowning in red tape trying to get the extension added.

I tend to find google is a much better resource for finding firefox extensions, since 100% of addons.mozilla.org is visible through google and you get the bonus of finding extensions not hosted on that site (keyconfig, for example).

Thanks for the feedback. I’ve posted and update to it to include your first suggestion, which does make it much more usable.

Unfortunately, the menu normally consumes all key events, which prevents the user from entering text into the textbox. The only way I could find around that was to set ignorekeys to true. The side effect of that is to disable keyboard navigation within the menu. I tried to reimplement the keyboard navigation with a keypress listener, but it seems that calling menuitem.focus() has no effect. Do you know of any other potential solutions?

And finally, I think the slowness is due to repeated string operations (toLowerCase() and match()). I was able to eliminate on call to toLowerCase per iteration though, which should speed things up a bit.

– the search field should start with keyboard focus, and with the last entered text selected so that a new search term can easily be entered or the existing term can be deleted

– it doesn’t maintain keyboard focus, which is a problem if I search for something and then try to down arrow (common, as my hands are already on the keyboard)

– it seems to be redrawing a lot, which is slowing things down

Cool work, though! Very helpful.

Do you use tippy by the way? It displays the recently closed tabs inside the tab menu on top-right.

Which gives me an idea: also include recently-closed tabs in your search.

It shows thumbnails of all the open tabs (either in the current window, or in all windows), supports searching and you can even do “bulk” operations (like move several tabs from one window to another, or delete a group of windows).

josh, I thought about that, but was’t sure how the UI should look. One thing I did think of was having some indication in the awesomebar that a particular URL was already open in a different tab or was in the history of an open tab.

However, find across multiple windows would be even better.

I wonder what changes might be required to have it show which tabs have changed form information – https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370318

It uses a keyboard shortcut instead of plugging in the tab menu.