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Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs by Sephr on Saturday January 03, 2015 @09:55PM (#8833004)
This extension can be made without a content script and with many fewer permissions. You should look into https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/commands to see how to properly integrate keyboard shortcuts, and https://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_window for the floating UI.

Unfortunately, Chrome extensions are not allowed to use chrome.app.window.create (which you will need to make the floating UI without modifying the content page), so you will need to convert your extension into an app to use this API.

Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs by fishnchips on Saturday January 03, 2015 @05:22PM (#8832268)
That's a great idea. Two suggestions though:

- this only seems to search the page title. As such it provides a limited value;

- I'd love to be able to navigate through results using my keyboard;

Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs by fishnchips on Saturday January 03, 2015 @05:25PM (#8832279)
Also, I think you should be explicit about using tracking (Google Analytics).
Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs by fouadmatin on Saturday January 03, 2015 @06:03PM (#8832402)
You're right! I was in a hurry building this; just made an issue https://github.com/fouad/chrome-tablight/issues/2
Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs by kawera on Saturday January 03, 2015 @05:57PM (#8832385)
Or at least make it opt-out.
Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs by jhgg on Saturday January 03, 2015 @07:15PM (#8832602)
A screenshot or demo on the page would be very valuable, so I know what's going to happen before I install!
Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs by Jonovono on Saturday January 03, 2015 @07:11PM (#8832588)
Sweet. I've been using Vimium (http://vimium.github.io/) which has something similar but it shows bookmarks and history and what not. I wanted something to do the same but for the current tabs. Thanks.

Can you make it so I don't have to click on the dropped down tabs? Instead I want to just use my cursor to select one.

Also, I noticed if I am in a different window, it will show tabs in the dropdown for tabs in other windows but if I click them nothing happens. Is that just me, or not possible?

ESC button to exit the searching.

(Notice it's open source but don't have time right now to dig into it, but maybe in the future!)

Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs by kawera on Saturday January 03, 2015 @07:49PM (#8832707)
You can search your current tabs on Vimium using shift-t.
Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs by Timothee on Saturday January 03, 2015 @10:19PM (#8833114)
I didn't know that either and that made me look at all the other options and features that Vimium offers. So many things I didn't know about! :)

Thanks for making me look! (it's like vim, there's always more to learn)

Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs by Jonovono on Saturday January 03, 2015 @07:54PM (#8832718)
I didn't know this! Thanks.
Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs by ckuijjer on Sunday January 04, 2015 @05:32AM (#8834023)
Nice! For my own purposes I once started on a Chrome extension like this: TabSwitch (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-switch/jibghim...), that uses a Most Recently Used ordered list and searches for domain and page title.

I really like that you have the interface on top of the web page itself!

Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs by dcre on Saturday January 03, 2015 @11:53PM (#8833385)
Looks nice. For similar functionality I currently use Quick Tabs:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-tabs/jnjfein...

Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs by capex on Saturday January 03, 2015 @04:51PM (#8832141)
This is nice. But the shortcut you've given 'Cmd/Ctrl + O' should be 'Cmd + Ctrl + O'
Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs by josh-skidmore on Saturday January 03, 2015 @04:57PM (#8832156)
I wasn't able to get the hotkey working until after I restarted Chrome. After that, I could use both [CMD] + O and [CTRL] + O on my Mac.
Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs by fouadmatin on Saturday January 03, 2015 @04:56PM (#8832152)
thanks! will add customizable shortcuts https://github.com/fouad/chrome-tablight/issues/1
Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs by aakilfernandes on Saturday January 03, 2015 @04:58PM (#8832162)
Awesome plugin and yes! please do
Re:Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs by prayerslayer on Saturday January 03, 2015 @08:11PM (#8832751)
Awesome, thank you!