jyro2080 / tabsense

Chrome extension to manage Tabs

TabSense is a Google Chrome extension that helps you manage your Tabs

What is TabSense?

TabSense is primarily inspired by Firefox's Tab Candy concept.

While browsing in Chrome, we end up with tens of tabs spread across many windows. TabSense replaces your newtab page with a summary view of all these tabs. Each time you open a new tab, it will be populated with tabs organized by their parent windows.

It is still a WORK IN PROGRESS. More features remain to be added. (tab movement between windows, searching through tabs)

tabsense's Issues

Tab Groups

The ability to have tab groups. (Inside each window.)

I'm assuming you've seen TabSugar? You can steal some source code, if you want.

Crashes chrome 9.0.595.0 on Linux when one maximizes the tab tree, then clicks on the restore icon

This is recreatable.

Browsing behavior analytics

There is lot of data about user's browsing habits stored. It can be displayed graphically, so that user can get insight into his/her own browsing habbits.

e.g. Total time spent on twitter/facebook/amazon during the day. Productivity analysis like rescuetime does.

For implementation, jquery flot library is a good candidate for graph plotting (http://code.google.com/p/flot/)

feature request to save tab bundles

The application would be able to cash tab bundles (shrink?) for later review. Basically an alternative bookmark interface.

Reside permanently in a sidebar instead of in a window

This would be perfect if it allowed tabs to reside permanently in a sidebar like the firefox tree style tab extension. As it stands, it's not as usable as "tree style tabs" as one needs to click to open the tab window first. For serious organized browsing a vertical tab tree is second to none.

Window titles don't persist across browser shutdown

Window titles are stored in localStorage, so they do exist even if browser is shutdown and restarted, however they are keyed with Window ID. When chrome restarts and opens the tabs and windows that were open when it was closed, the windows have new ID. Therefore when TabSense tries to find title for them, it's not found.

Possible fix: Save list of tabs (even for windows that are not saved in bag) in localStorage. Compare it with new window's tab list and try to guess if they are the same windows that we have a title for.