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tabist
JavaScript2016–2023
fiveNinePlusR / tabist

tabist

Simple Tab Manager Extension for Chrome and Firefox.

2Distinct people
21Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
45GitHub stars
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What it is

Simple Tab Manager Extension for Chrome and Firefox.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:02:05 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year21 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-08-02 19:19:01 UTC to 2023-02-18 23:13:16 UTC.

02468102016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 0 submissions, 10 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2023

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC10010
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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You might (might not) find my extension useful. I made it for people that horde tabs like you and me. It's a page that lists tabs per window visually and if you click on one of the links it focuses the tab for you. Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ and chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog... It's also open source: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist If you end up trying it, let me know if you find it useful/hate it or have something that should be added :)
In Why are browsers so slow?
I made a simple firefox/chrome extension for people that horde tabs as temp bookmarks. You might find it useful to find tabs and quickly navigate to them by clicking on the link in the list. It's free and open source. The github page has a gif showing usage. You can also type cmd-shift-e or ctrl-shift-e to switch to it. Chrome Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog... Firefox Extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ source code: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist Let me know if you find it useful or have any suggestions. (patches are awesome too)
In Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
Not sure if this warrants inclusion in this list, but I'll share it anyway. I made a simple firefox/chrome extension for people that horde tabs as temp bookmarks. You might find it useful to find tabs and quickly navigate to them by clicking on the link in the list. It's free and open source. The github page has a gif showing usage. You can also type cmd-shift-e or ctrl-shift-e to switch to it. Chrome Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog... Firefox Extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ source code: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist Let me know if you find it useful or have any suggestions.
In Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
Project name: Tabist Project description: Simple tab switcher webextension for Firefox and Chrome. What do you hope to build this month? Some kind of history store to be able to sort the tabs by MRU or age would be a good feature to have. Anything that seems like it would be a win for usability would also be great. There are issues on the github repository as well. What kind of skills do you need? Javascript/CSS skills. Github: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist Your license(s): MIT
In Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)
I made a simple firefox/chrome extension for people like you and me that horde tabs. You might find it useful to find tabs and quickly navigate to them by clicking on the link in the list. It's free and open source. The github page has a gif showing usage. Chrome Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog... Firefox Extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ source code: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist Let me know if you find it useful or have any suggestions.
In Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox
I made a simple firefox/chrome extension for people like you and me that horde tabs. You might find it useful to find tabs and quickly navigate to them by clicking on the link in the list. It's free and open source. The github page has a gif showing usage. Chrome Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog... Firefox Extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ source code: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist
In How Chrome ate 21GB of storage
Just thought I would throw out a simple firefox/chrome extension that I put together recently to help manage tabs. Basically, it's button in the toolbar that you can press to bring up a new tab with a list of all your tabs open, grouped by window. Clicking on one of the links will focus that tab and window. It's opensource and free. Hope it helps someone out there! Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog... Contribute feedback/feature requests/bugs: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist
In Project Tofino – A browser interaction experiment by Mozilla
I made a simple extension for Firefox and chrome that might be of some use to you. Like you I had trouble with many tabs being open and having a hard time finding them so I made a new extension that opens up a new tab window listing all your tabs that are currently open and when you click on them it navigates to that tab. Simple but very useful in my day to day activities. If you are anything like me you have a number of windows open for some project or research thing and you had one extra tab that you left open as the last active tab in the window but it's unrelated to the other 10 tabs in that window. The windows menu doesn't help you because that is the tab that is listed as the title of that window. It's free and opensource[1] for Chrome[2] and Firefox[3]. 1. https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist 2. https://chrome.google.com/webstor
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e/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog... 3. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ If you try it and like it/hate it let me know what you might want put into future versions to keep it good/change your opinion of it to the better. It's still early in its development but what's implemented works well so far. Cheers! Edit: There is a bug in Firefox that I have a patch submitted that will allow the tab titles to show up correctly even when they have been unloaded. for now it shows the URL of the tab until it has been loaded. The patch should land by Firefox 51 hopefully.
In What’s Next for Multi-Process Firefox

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