03-29-2025 12:49 PM - edited 03-29-2025 12:51 PM
While I'm grateful for you guys thinking about those of us with countless tabs to sift through, in its current state the 'Search tabs' feature is pretty terrible. I'm going to be brutally honest about this and I'm hard on you guys not to put you down but because I know you guys can do better than this, I believe in you guys and wholeheartedly support you all working on Firefox but this is ridiculous what I'm seeing, I don't know if people are being lazy or what but this is pathetic. I
It's extremely frustrating when you need something like this tab search feature the most it fails spectacularly and that's when you realize how poorly thought out and mostly useless it is.
Take for example today, I'm looking for some Reddit tabs I opened last week and was reading through. I put that to the side, on pause to work in some other tabs, new tabs were opened, life is happening, busy life, today I need to reference back to those Reddit tabs from a week ago, I'm not able to immediately locate those tabs so I figure now is a perfect time to put this 'Search tabs' feature to use, this is what it's for right?
I do a tab search for 'Reddit' and what do I get? Nothing but 10 Reddit tabs when I actually have far more than what's shown in the search results which I can clearly see if I do a quick skim of the vertical tabs, another recent new addition funny enough, I can clearly see that all of the Reddit tabs aren't even being displayed in the search results.
It's even worse if you watch a lot of videos. You like to browse YouTube? TikTok? You have a bunch of new interesting videos in other tabs that you planned to watch later? Well the tab search is ONLY going to show you 10 of them!
This is just infuriating....it's a major letdown from you guys that you implement something that has so much potential, that a lot of people could really use to make their lives easier then we immediately discover how useless it actually it is and how little thought has been put into it. And its been like this for several months now, likely over a year or few years now, however long this has been a feature, its remained the same.
Maybe you chose to limit it to 10 search results to reduce clutter - well at least add a dropdown arrow TO GIVE US THE OPTION to view more search results, not just only show us 10 results and hide the rest from us and leave us on the dark like what we're actually looking for doesn't matter. Add a tab search sidebar to display ALL of the relevant results not just 10 of them...SOMETHING that actually displays all of results not just the first 10...this is ridiculous, you guys are college graduates and not thinking about these things.
What good is a tab search feature that only returns useless results? Only the first 10 results???
05-03-2025 01:38 PM - edited 05-03-2025 01:39 PM
Try searching tabs from firefox view's open tabs. If you prefer something supercharged you can also use extension like tab manager plus.