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yoasif
Making moves
Status: New idea

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).

 
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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.

30 Comments
backsideofdawn
Strollin' around

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
New member

i need it

unl0ckd
Strollin' around

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
New member

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
Strollin' around

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

Professor
Strollin' around

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

myspace
Making moves

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

anand
New member

yes, please implement this feature asap. my vote.

emoxam
Strollin' around

lack of such a good feature! +1!

SagaciousB
New member

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
New member

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

th0rgall
Strollin' around

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
New member

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

ScottDeagan
Strollin' around

If you love kittens, you would implement this feature!

cawabunga
Strollin' around

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.