Add Tab-Search Bar at Top of Vertical Tabs

[franzschneider]

Please add an independent search bar just for searching tabs at the top of vertical tabs as in the add-on, Tab Center Redux. It's so fast and efficient! As you type, it instantly filters your tabs to show only those that match your search text and hides those that do not.

Before anyone says it, yes–I am aware that you can type "%" in the search bar to search tabs you have open. But this bar is faster for quickly filtering tabs you have open in your current group–especially when you have a gazillion tabs open and need to find one without scrolling for ten minutes or stop audio in a tab you can't find.

[Jon]

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[okay_okay]

yes to this

[Mudbock]

Great idea.  That would be very useful.

[rag2]

It's a big loss not to have search for vertical tabs. With horizontal tabs, the tab selection drop-down includes a search facility. That is great for folk who routinely—and for good reason—keep many tabs open, frequently over 100. [We all interact differently with our machinery. What works very efficiently for one of us might be personal anathema to another. Each of us configures the system to suit our productive working methods.]

[rammalamma]

Yes, those of us who have been using vertical tab extensions for a long time are very accustomed to having a search/filter bar for the tabs.

[rammalamma]

To add to my previous comment: The "Open tabs" section of the Firefox View page does not cut it.  Nor does the Tabs search in the address bar.  The tab filter/search needs to be integrated into the vertical tabs pane in the sidebar.  And there must be an option for the filter/search word to be persistent until manually deleted, i.e. the filter/search word must not disappear after you select a tab.  (There are one or two vertical-tabs add-ons whose filters annoyingly do that.)  One might need to select multiple tabs from the filtered list to, for example, add them to a new group or move them to a new window.