Keyboard shortcut for "Search Tabs"

[yoasif]

This came through as a question on reddit with 87 net votes, showing a screenshot of Chrome's "Search Tabs" feature (in the tab strip).

People pointed out that you can search tab titles via the address bar using the % restriction token. However, this is a bit of a multi-step process, unlike the same feature in Chrome, which allows people to do a Ctrl-shift-a and begin typing for the tab vs. the Firefox feature, which requires people to do Ctrl-l then type % space and begin typing the tab title.

Ideally, there would be a keyboard shortcut that would focus the address bar with the restriction token already populated.

[backsideofdawn]

I was searching for this feature, but I don't see any easy way. Most other browsers have this ability, it would be great if Firefox had it too.

[dkphhh]

i need it

[unl0ckd]

Please add this functionality. As others have pointed out, finding the right tab quickly is a very common activity and the fewer keys needed to accomplish this, the better.

[zhou]

Life is short, implementing keybinding support for searching across active tabs is crucial for the lives of millions of developers.

PLEASE ADD THIS FUNCTIONALITY

[Tubbe]

It's been two years and we are still missing this feature :')

[Professor]

I was researching this. Please add this very useful feature.

[myspace]

this is a great idea. bumping it with vote and comment 👍

[anand]

yes, please implement this feature asap. my vote.

[emoxam]

lack of such a good feature! +1!

[SagaciousB]

I use this so much in my work-policy-enforced Chrome usage that ctrl-shift-a is now muscle memory to switch tabs. For my personal browsing in Firefox, I just get taken to the add-ons page, which just wastes even more time.

[trreuiotue]

I'm kind of shocked that there’s not already a keyboard shortcut for this. What exactly is the problem?

[th0rgall]

I'm switching back from Chrome to Firefox, and I'm sorely missing this being built-in as a single shortcut.

As others already pointed out, Chromium has this feature. On macOS with Chrome it's activated with Cmd+Shift+A. In Firefox this opens "about:addons", which is an action I'd much rather do manually, clicking through GUI or typing it, since I perform the action about 100x less 🙂

To me it sounds reasonable to make this the same as the Chromium shortcut in Firefox, since many people will be coming in from Chromium-based browsers. If some people still want single-shortcut access to add-ons, it could be made configurable?

[r1sk]

please lord give us this shortcut it's a nobrainer!

[ScottDeagan]

If you love kittens, you would implement this feature!

[cawabunga]

Also moved from Chrome and miss this feature, I used it a lot for navigating between tabs and searching recent closed tabs. This feature increases my productivity a lot. Hope Firefox team will implement this feature too.