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Should "Find Tab by Keyword" become a feature? Have 370 tabs open in various groups.

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Hirnsausen
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For business reasons, I usually have to keep around 370 tabs open in my Firefox. I use the famous and very useful "TabGroups" plugin. That helps to sort all these open tabs in some ways.

But the real question is, if many people would like to have a feature that allows to find a tab by using a search keyword. It would help me a lot, since I am one of these users that have to keep so many tabs open. What do you think about such a feature?

For business reasons, I usually have to keep around 370 tabs open in my Firefox. I use the famous and very useful "TabGroups" plugin. That helps to sort all these open tabs in some ways. But the real question is, if many people would like to have a feature that allows to find a tab by using a search keyword. It would help me a lot, since I am one of these users that have to keep so many tabs open. What do you think about such a feature?

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the-edmeister
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370 open tabs sounds like an "edge case" - IOW, a very small percentage of users would use Firefox in that manner.

CraneArmy
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I dont normally have more than 20 tabs open, but I also think this would be very useful, especially at those times when I have 40-50 and need the productivity boost the most.

Seems like it would be fairly simple to integrate. All you would need is a tick-box in the "find" ( ctrl-f / cmd-f ) dialogue box asking if the user would like to search for the keyword across tabs or tab groups. If the tab is open already but the only way to find the information, is to run queries on a search engine, its a huge unnecessary workflow disruption that FF could remedy pretty easily.

If the search were restricted to a single tab group i cant imagine it would be a big memory hog either.

I think this idea should be explored, I dont think you need to have 370 tabs open for this to be helpful.

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the-edmeister
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You can provide feedback to Mozilla here: https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/feedback

Start your feedback with something like "Request for Enhancement".

Or search the Add-ons website for an extension that does that. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ Although I don't recall ever coming across an extension with that feature.

CraneArmy
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the-edmeister said

Or search the Add-ons website for an extension that does that. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ Although I don't recall ever coming across an extension with that feature.

I'll post in the feedback.

I have definitely looked for extensions that do this and came up with nothing

CraneArmy
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The input / feedback post is here, if anyone is searching for a follow-up https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/dashboard/response/4925077