I use these two features a lot and I find it a bit cumbersome to type so many keys to access them.
I think it would be useful to have two additional shortcuts, like ALT + B for bookmark search and ALT + H for history search.

Chrome is rolling out tab groups.

It would be great if QuicKey had support for tab groups. My initial thoughts are the following use cases:

1. Group tabs by tab group in the drop-down UI.

2. Type in a tab group name, see the list of tabs that match the typed text, or all the tabs for a tab group that matches the typed text. Clicking on a tab group (as opposed to one of the tabs under it) would take me to the first tab in the group.

For me it makes more sense to switch between recent tabs within one window. So each window should have it's own recent tab.

If I'd want to switch between chrome windows I would use ALT+TAB for that.

I suggest ALT+Q should only switch to the recent tab within the active window.

If you could point me where this can be changed, I'd be happy to see if I could make a PR

1. Open a tab with an app from the iOS App Store. Like for Facebook.
2. Search App Store in Quickey.
3. The tab doesn't appear in the results.

I sometimes have multiple Chrome windows open on one screen. When I switch between them, the Q logo for the extension goes from black to grey and back to black. It's a bit distracting and it's the only extension that does that. Is there a way to make it stop doing that?

It's hard to know if the page you want to open is already open. Thank you for making such a nice extension.

Chromium-based browsers other than Chrome will have a different extension ID, afaik
The code snippet I'm supposed to paste into the DevTools console won't work if I copy it just like that from the instructions page

E.g. on Edge I needed to:

• open extensions page (edge://extensions/)
• turn on 'Developer mode'
• find and copy the id
• change the code snipped appropriately: replace
  extensionId: "ldlghkoiihaelfnggonhjnfiabmaficg"
  with
  extensionId: "mcjciddpjefdpndgllejgcekmajmehnd"

I think fuzzy search works incorrectly. Dunno, if it's inherent to the algo itself, or the implementation.

IMO it should be sorted in tf order: 3-4-2-1

this one: 3-2-1-4

I've looked at the "trick" to assign ctrl+tab to tab navigation.

Is it possible to assign ctrl+tab to window switching (on Chrome OS)?

Background: I've got the alt/ctrl keys switched on my chromebook to have the ctrl key where the apple key would be on Macs. That turns most keyboard short cuts into "thumb operated" shortcuts as you would do on Macs. However, I would like ctrl+tab to switch windows, rather than tabs.

I thought you might know!

Thanks!

It would be nice if we could see the montitude of open tabs I leave on my Vivaldi hahaha BTW, your extension is marvelous. Thanks for sharing with us :)

I'm generally loving QuicKey but I've stumbled across a weird glitch. I had a dozen or so tabs open to various parts of a website. If I typed in the common string they all had, most of them would have an 'x' on the right side allowing me to close them. Some others, however, wouldn't have the 'x' on the right side. There was an 'x' on the left side but clicking on that just went to the tab.

If I try to close that tab, it still shows up in QuicKey when I type the string the tab would still be listed and clicking on it would reopen the tab that I had already closed.

One thing all of these phantom tabs seem to have in common is they were suspended by Tab Suspender. But I don't think all of the suspended tabs had this problem (although at this point I can't swear to that because all of the closeable tabs are closed.)

I appear to be using version 1.0.2 of QuicKey.

EDIT:
Also, I tried unsuspending the tabs and then closing them but the result was the same. The tabs still show up in QuicKey and it still reopens them if I try to click on them.

Hi -

I think there might be a way to do the extended functionality that QuicKey has on Windows (via AHK) while on Mac.

I'm using Hammerspoon to implement this script that was originally used for the CLUT extension: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39233870/mru-browser-tab-switching-with-hammerspoon-luamac-issue

-- MRU for QuicKey
local ctrlTab = hs.hotkey.new({"ctrl"}, "tab", nil, function()
  hs.eventtap.keyStroke({"ctrl"}, "q")
end)
chromeWatcher = hs.application.watcher.new(function(name, eventType, app)
  if eventType ~= hs.application.watcher.activated then return end
  if name == "Brave Browser" then
    ctrlTab:enable()
  else
    ctrlTab:disable()
  end
end)

I'm able to trigger the ctrl+q action using ctrl+tab, but I'm not sure how to clone the rest of the AHK script. Any help appreciated.

from the feature description
Now you can press ctrl + tab to switch to the previously used tab. If you press it again within .75 seconds, while the icon is inverted, you’ll switch to the tab before that. You can press ctrl+shift+tab to navigate in the other direction.

It would be nice if this feature could be optional (i.e. user can turn it off if desired or the user can set the desired delay).

I love constantly switch back and forth between the tabs and it's super annoying that you have to wait those 750ms to operate it in a desired way.

I'd use this extension instead of the default omnibar if when the tab list is empty or with a keyboard combo, i could search the term in Google. Is this possible?

Thanks for making QuicKey, it's pretty useful!

I'm using a dark theme in Chrome, in my OS, and in every app that supports it (most that I use do). So, the bright white of QuicKey kind of clashes with everything else.

Even better than a dark theme, would be custom theming with CSS, so I could match QuicKey's colors to the colors of my Chrome theme.

感觉QuickNavigator可以借鉴下;-)

(Saving original title here: 能否默认同时搜索历史&书签呢，最好还可以支持拼音)

Currently users can move/rearrange tabs as well as switch to next/previous tabs, based on the order in which they exist in the history.

It would be nice to have the ability to move to the tab that is physically to the left/right of the active tab, much like the native CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB shortcut in most browsers, but with custom shortcuts.

What do you think? Is this something that could be easily implemented?

Great work so far btw, 😀

When I separate words with a space in the search bar I expect the tool to find them anywhere in the URL/title.

This works fine:

This yields no results:

I think it would make sense to not handle the space character as a literal space, rather it could be just a separator for terms which I would like to see anywhere in the URL/title. Also, it would be nice if the ordering of the words wouldn't matter.

I love this application so so much.
I would like to know where I can support your project since I tried to find the support button but in vain.

By default, when searching for a tab, I assume that it's in the current window. If a tab in the search results is not in the current window, then please indicate it as such somehow, by prepending it with an icon, or dim the row or something.

Because I group my tabs in windows by how related they are, so this would be quite useful.

Your project seems to do the same as this project:

https://github.com/babyman/quick-tabs-chrome-extension

What are the benefits of QuicKey, compared to QuickTab?

If there are several tabs that have the exact same URL, then they both appear in the results. This is to be expected. But please add the tab's index in the all tab titles in the search results, so we know which position we're jumping to.

In a more complex scenario, I've got a bunch of tabs, and so I can only see the first few characters of each tab's title. I know I want to jump to the tab that is three tabs to the left, but can only see the first few characters. So I type the characters I see, like exa, and the results appear. There could be three results, and if they included their position, then I would better know which one I want to jump to.

So, tab titles could change from Test website to 3. Test website.

1. Open a link in a new tab by middle-clicking on it.
2. In QuicKey, search for the tab. The tab will appear in the results. But it doesn't appear in the dropdown at all, when it should possibly be the most recent item.

Hello! I normally use Quick Tabs and just came across QuicKey and I like some of the added features! I noticed though that in Quick Tabs, my last search is automatically prefilled in whereas QuicKey does not remember my last query. I sometimes need to perform the same search multiple times, and having it pick back up where I last left is helpful.

I recognize that some people may not want/like this behavior, so if this can at least be an option, that would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I found Quickey and I like it, Thanks.

Pinned tab don't show in search.

Hi,

Would it be good if we could navigate through the recent tabs list by pressing Q multiple times while holding Alt button? I am aware that quick double pressing Q switches the most recent tab, but navigating tab list by pressing Q multiple times (a bit slower), like Alt+Tab in windows, would improve user experience and removes the need to use the arrow keys, I think.

Regards, and thanks for the really nice extension

I use another Chrome extension to switch tabs, namely Quick Tabs, and implemented some new features which proved utmost useful.

For one, the ability to open the extension from anywhere, even outside Chrome, with a global shortcut. This is a gamechanger in terms of uxp. If this short descriptions teased your interest I can tell you more and how it's done.

Further features are, 0 loading time to detect rapid key releases by keeping extension open as a distinct background tab and simply changing it's window id to move it in view, tab release functions to select, tab/window preview UI like windows Alt+Tab and Win+Tab, to get overview of tabs in window and select/search tabs based on preview.

Please offer dark mode, when the browser/system is in dark mode.

Here I got to second tab and press Command + a to select text but it switches to first tab.

After re-opening chrome with 400+ tabs the extn stopped working.
It shows 0 tabs instead of 400 on the badge.
When I open new tab, the counter increases from 0 to 1 - but when I click the badge, the tab list is empty, search shows nothing.
None of the kb shortcuts work.
Options page is blank; with an error in the console (although, since it's minified, it's useless):

base.js:24 URIError: URI malformed
    at decodeURI (<anonymous>)
    at base.js:24

I tried turning on\off, uninstall-close_chrome-install, clearing chrome.storage.local - nothing helps.

From recent changes that I did were enabling tf options in The Great Suspender:

• Never suspend tabs when offline
• Apply Chrome's built-in memory-saving when suspending
• Instantly suspend when system memory gets very low
• Automatic deactivation of any kind of tracking

Maybe, the last option breaks smth, if you've got GA tracking. But unchecking those options didn't help.

Does the extension support fuzzy search/filtering? If not, any plans to implement it? Thanks!

E.g.: if I have a tab named "QuicKey Github", I can type "quic key hub" and the search would still match this tab.

For a practical example, check the https://github.com/janraasch/tab-ahead which uses https://github.com/krisk/fuse or another alternative that's fuzzy https://github.com/mattyork/fuzzy

Thanks for this extension, so far it's been much better than others I tried.

From my testing, it seems that the query is matched against either the URL or the title of the tab, but not both.
For example, the current tab with this issue a title of the form 'New Issue ... Quick Tabs', while the URL is github.com/.../QuickKey. However, If I use the query "qkgh", it doesn't match the tab. "ghqk" does match because it matches the URL, but I would expect the former to also match.

Is it possible to support this?

Thanks!

希望增加全局快捷键，也就是可以在后台运行， 如果能加上切换系统窗口就更强了（以窗口标题或者进程名来匹配切换）。

Hello,

If I'm using a non-Roman keyboard layout (e.g. Cyrillic) on my mac I still can open the MRU list with ctrl+q shortcut but nothing happens when I press 'w' (while keep holding ctrl).

Otherwise the extension is brilliant!
Hope this bug could be fixed, thank you.

When activating the results list, focus is in the search bar. The first result is not selected, though. I have to arrow-down to select it.

Instead, the first result should be automatically selected, so I can hit Enter to jump to that tab immediately.

Currently, the main UI is opened close to the extension bar, which may require some eye movement.
It would be nice to have an option to render it in the middle of the page, similar to the Vomnibar in vimium-c:

I also opened gdh1995/vimium-c#169 to support QuicKey's matching.

I'd like to use the home/end buttons to navigate in the search text instead of navigating the search results. Some similar option that exists for the 'Space' button would be nice.

I don't usually install Chrome extensions, so when I installed this one a few days ago, I noticed a new issue in Chrome, and thought the issue might be related to this extension.

The issue is, sometimes when I open a new tab in Chrome, then start typing in the address bar, the focus suddenly gets switched back to the last tab I was viewing, halfway while I'm typing something in the new tab's address bar. And then when I switch back to the new tab's address bar and continue typing, I get switched back to the previously active tab again. This happens usually twice or three times in a row.

Since this extension's primary feature is tab switching, I figure it could be related. And because this issue only started happening after installing this extension.

I'm on MacOS 10.14.6 (18G87), Chrome Version 76.0.3809.100 (Official Build) (64-bit).

If I use this ext to go to a tab, then use Ctrl-A to go back to the previous one, then when I hit Ctrl-S, nothing happens.

This is only a problem when the "next" tab that Ctrl-S is supposed to focus on was previously focused by this extension.

E.g. I'm on google.com. And the previous tab I've visited is github.com. And I have lots of other open tabs.
What I'd like to have is a kb shortcut to cycle bw google and github tabs.
There's something similar when I double-press alt-q - but it works haphazardly.
Can we make a special function for this? Or stabilize the current shortcut

I'm getting some inconsistent behaviour when using the "Switch Instantly Between The Two Most Recent Tabs" function.

I've bound the keyboard shortcut as below:

For the most part, this works as expected, where pressing the Alt+Q combination switches between the tabs as expected. However, occasionally it won't work as expected.

I have three tabs open:
Tab A
Tab B
Tab C

Tab A to Tab B = Works
Tab A to Tab C = Works
Tab A to Tab C, click Tab B, press hotkey = Goes to Tab A, hotkey will then jump between Tabs A and B, not between the expected Tab C and B

This seems to be related to some sort of timeout. If I perform the tab switching quickly manually, as in quickly click between Tabs A and B, then press the hotkey, the unexpected behaviour occurs. If I click more slowly between Tabs A and B, then press the hotkey, the expected behaviour occurs.

Is there any way I can decrease the time needed for the system to "capture" which tabs I'd like to switch between? This is quite important for me as often I know which tabs need to be switched between and click between them in rapid succession, but obviously need the functionality of this plugin to be able to do the switching for me via the keyboard.

I hope that this explanation makes sense. If someone could try the below steps to replicate it that would be appreciated:

1. Open three tabs (Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo in my instance)
2. Rapidly click between Tabs A and B slowly and press the "Switch Instantly Between The Two Most Recent Tabs" hotkey
3. The tabs should switch as expected.
4. Now, click quickly between the tab you are on and Tab C, then press the hotkey.
5. There will likely be some unexpected/undesirable behaviour as a result.

Thanks!

QuicKey seems to be using a lot of memory, is this expected behaviour? Any idea why it would be?

macos 10.15.5, Chrome 83.0.4103.106, QuicKey 1.5.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. ⌘L or ⌘F
2. type some text
3. ⌘A or ⌘Z

Expected behavior:

• select all or undo within URL or Find bar

Actual behavior:

• tabs switch as if QuicKey received ^A or ^Z

I personally find the default Alt+A behaviour a just a little bit too difficult to use to be useful. I think what it boils down to is two issues:

1. On pressing Alt+A, subsequent presses can have one of two completely opposite behaviours (depending on the 750ms cooldown) that is indicated only by the subtle colour shift in the corner. This behaviour is non-obvious and not clearly documented. I actually didn't realize it was there until I'd read about it in a comment on one of the project's pages, and would probably be quite confused by it if I hadn't come across that.

2. The 750ms cooldown is somewhat arbitrary, does not respond to user input, and does not seem to be configurable. When I do try to use an Alt+A shortcut, I often find that I'm still scanning a page to see if it's the one I want when the cooldown expires, meaning that I just go back to the page I started on when I press it again, give up, and just use Alt+Q instead.

I think an ideal solution for the second issue of arbitrariness would be to extend the behaviour of the cooldown to the entire duration that the Alt key stays pressed down. This would make sure that the user has a chance to find the page they actually want before they release the Alt key and reset the tab navigation sequence, and it would be consistent with conventional UI behaviour for operations that require selecting an item from a sequence as well.

For the first problem, it could nice too if the navigation sequence could be made more apparent by using Alt+A and Alt+S as aliases for pressing Alt+Q and then using the cursor keys or W. This would also unify all of the tab navigation functionality into the same menu feature, as right now there's a lot of different key commands that all do fundamentally the same thing but also all require the user to memorize slightly different rules for each of them (Q, A, S, W, Up, Down).

I also want to just add that on the whole, this add-on is great to use, looks very smooth, runs quickly, and deals with large amounts of information far better than the alternatives that I've tried. So this may seem nit-picky, but it's only because all the basic functions already work great and I'm just legitimately offering my opinion as an user on how the more specific commands could be easier to use in my opinion.

I found that, by default, focus moves to the first tab after selecting any tab via QuicKey.

This is inconvenient for users who use the Vimium extension.

If I'm loading a tab, then I open the Quickey menu, then the Quickey menu will close. And sometimes it will immediately jump to the last focus tab, also.

I encounter this issue frequently, when I open a new tab (that I want to read later), then want to switch focus to another tab.

To reproduce:

1. Open a new tab. Load a URL (just enter one in the address bar and hit Enter).
2. Open the Quickey menu immediately, while the URL is still loading. When the page begins loading, then the Quickey menu will close. And sometimes, focus will shift to the last focused tab.

This essentially means that Quickey can't be used while a page is loading.

It would be great if the search matched folder names as well (perhaps add a flag to the options to enable this in case not everyone wants it). For example, if one has the bookmark Computer science/Sorting/QuickSort (where / marks a directory separator), searching for csqsrt should match it.

Thanks!

I assume that this ext doesn't allow space, because it just takes the query string and searches for it in titles and URLs, with a case-insensitive match with spaces removed.

I suggest allowing spaces, then each word in the query is matched against another word in the title and URL of each tab.

So typing test example would still match Test | https://www.example.com/ but won't match Test | https://www.test.com/ or Example | https://www.example.com/.

Hello! I am comparing Quick Tabs and I noticed that a search today did not work in QuicKey as I expected it to. I wanted to ask if this is a bug, if I need to adjust my search, or if this scenario is not supported:

I have multiple pages on Yelp.com open for different Indian restaurants in 1 of my many open windows. I performed the search "yelp India" in the search, but none of the results I was looking for arose. I performed the same search in Quick Tabs and it worked and showed me the correct results of open windows.

Does QuicKey support searching for both the URL "yelp" (.com) and a title "India"? If so, how can I perform this search?

I am using QuicKey 1.5.1 in MS Chromium Edge.

Thanks!