CTRL + SHIFT + TAB (to list all tabs) - request for improvement

[joefiesta]

Currently, CTRL + SHIFT + TAB displays all the tabs in the current window WHEN  the setting "CTRL + TAB cycles through tabs in recently used order" is enabled.

(It also allows choosing to activate a tab in the list.)

I find this great, but:  I want to write a routine to find and activate a given (by Title) in ANY of my Firefox Windows.  I onliy need ONE THING from this CTRL + SHIFT + TAB function:     to  be able to COPY the output or have the OUTPUT automatically copied to my Cliplboard.  

With that, I can write my routine.  It would cycle through each Firefox window (easy to code) and examine the list of tabs for each until the target tab is found.  I then just have to active the window the tab was found in, and then activate the target tab.  This could be done by cycling through the tabs in that window, or, BETTER YET but tricky, programming the CURSOR the select the tab from the CTRL + SHIFT + TAB output display.  (This is easy too, but, requires writing code to click a position based solely solely or parameters of the Firefox windowl, and firefox loves to change window layouts.)

My present, hopelessly inadequate, routine cycles through each window and then activates each tabs until a hit is found.   this is horrid.   The screen flashes each time a new tab is activated, is hopelessly ineffecient and slow, etc etc.

I hope others like this idea.   I will add that I write routines to control web pages with Autohotkey!!!  A BLESSING.l

[Jon]

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[anijatsu]

Sounds like this addon could help you a bit:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab_search/

I still agree with you though, ctrl+shift+tab should have some customizability - like:

- having it go to the previous tab rather than a menu while keeping "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order" option on

- allowing to do a search so that you don't need an addon 🙂