TabFern

A Google Chrome extension that:

• Gives you a vertical list of all your open tabs
• Groups your tabs by window
• Saves sets of tabs so you can close them and resume later
• Backs up and restores sets of tabs

See INTERNALS.md for details of how the code is structured.

Usage

• Click the icon to open the TabFern view. The view will also open when you start Chrome.

• When you open windows or tabs, or rearrange windows or tabs within a particular browser window, the tree will update.

• To mark a window to be saved, you have two choices:

  1. Give the window a name using the pencil icon ().
  2. Hit the middle icon showing a rectangle with a red dot (). The window will close.

• 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.

• Saved windows will be saved even if you close them manually. To remove them from the tree, hit the delete icon (red X, ).

• Windows you do not expressly save will not be saved when you exit! I am open to discussion of better ways to handle this.

Limitations

• 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!

Thanks

• Extensionizr
• jstree
• jstree-actions
• jquery
• Barnsley fern generator
• famfamfam Silk icons

Legal

Copyright (c) 2017 Chris White and contributors. 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.

Contributors:

• Jasmine Hegman

Originally inspired by Tabs Outliner by Vladyslav Volovyk. However, TabFern is not derived from Tabs Outliner. TabFern is not affiliated in any way with Vladyslav or Tabs Outliner.