Very basic extension for vertical, grouped tabs. Inspired by Tabs Outliner by Vladyslav Volovyk. However, TabFern is not derived from or in any way affiliated with Vladyslav or his (excellent!) work.
See INTERNALS.md for details of how the code is structured.
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Click the icon to open the TabFern view. The view will also open when you start Chrome.
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When you open windows or tabs, or rearrange windows or tabs within a particular browser window, the tree will update.
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To mark a window to be saved, you have two choices:
- Give the window a name using the pencil icon (
). - Hit the middle icon showing a rectangle with a red dot
(
). The window will close.
- Give the window a name using the pencil icon (
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Folder icons are:
- Open, unsaved: a monitor (
) - Open, saved: a monitor with a green dot (
). - Closed, saved (closed unsaved aren't in the tree): a white file folder.
- Open, unsaved: a monitor (
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Saved windows will be saved even if you close them manually. To remove them from the tree, hit the delete icon (red X,
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Windows you do not expressly save will not be saved when you exit! I am open to discussion of better ways to handle this.
- There is only a two-level hierarchy --- tabs cannot be the children of other tabs in the tree.
- You cannot open and close individual tabs --- you have to open and close the window as a whole.
- Where new windows open may not always be where Chrome would open a new window. Currently, the original size/position of the last-focused or last-closed window is generally where the new window will end up.
- Lots of others I'm not going to list right now!
Copyright (c) 2017 Chris White, Jasmine Hegman. CC-BY-SA 4.0 International. See LICENSE.md for details, which are controlling in case of any difference between that file and this section.
