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> I’m happily walking away from this with an extra 21GB in my pocket! And now I ask you: is your Chrome bigger than mine?

Given I don't have to rely on third party updaters, I doubt it. Let's see...

    $ let size=0; dpkg -L chromium | while read path; do if [ -f "$path" ]; then let size=$size+$(du -sb "$path" | awk '{print $1}'); echo $size bytes, $(($size/1024/1024)) megabytes; fi; done;
    172060669 bytes, 164 megabytes
    $ du -sh .{cache,config}/chromium
    8.4M  .cache/chromium
    25M	  .config/chromium
So the cache is 8M, config files 25M and program files 164M (listed by dpkg -L, then some command line magic to add up file sizes). A grand total of just under 200MB.


heh, nice

    user@t61:~$ let size=0; dpkg -L chromium | while read path; do if [ -f "$path" ]; then let size=$size+$(du -sb "$path" | awk '{print $1}'); echo $size bytes, $(($size/1024/1024)) megabytes; fi; done;
    162190110 bytes, 154 megabytes
    user@t61:~$ du -sh .{cache,config}/chromium
    386M    .cache/chromium
    84M     .config/chromium


I win? :P

    zod@DESKTOP MINGW64 ~/AppData/Local/Google
    $ du -sh ~/AppData/Local/Google
    2.9G    /c/Users/Zod/AppData/Local/Google
Edit: I do have 885 tabs open. (yikes! D:)


I made a simple firefox/chrome extension for people like you and me that horde tabs. You might find it useful to find tabs and quickly navigate to them by clicking on the link in the list. It's free and open source. The github page has a gif showing usage.

Chrome Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog...

Firefox Extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/

source code: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist


Cool! Is it possible to bring up Tabist with a hotkey? (Ideally configurable, but I'll take whatever I can get.) I'd use it all the time then.


It sure it is... any idea what it should be? Firefox has a problem with re-assigning keys but in chrome you can change them inside the extension manager area. There's a bug filed for firefox to fix this.


Any shortcut that could be pressed with one hand on a qwerty keyboard would probably be good.

I'm partial to Ctrl-` since it's cross-platform and seems to be unused, but some international keyboards might have difficulty with that.

Ctrl-Space would also be pretty nice.


can't bind to Ctrl-` because of some limitation of the browser and Ctrl-Space didn't work for some reason as well. I ended up using (ctrl/comamnd)+Shift+E as it didn't seem to have a shortcut assigned to it and it is very easy to use with one hand. Hopefully that works well for most people. I'll update the extensions today but it takes a few days to get code approval on firefox. Chrome update should be available within a few hours of submitting.


Sweet!

My next feature request would be to show the domain (e.g. "news.ycombinator.com") next to each link, like HN does. That'd let ctrl-F find by domain.

Additionally, being able to sort by domain would be good. Not per-window, but globally. Just a big list of tabs. I'm almost never looking for a particular window, but rather a particular tab of a specific site.

Another minor feature request is to put the total number of tabs as a badge number on the icon itself. I.e. instead of just showing tabist's icon, show the icon with "53" on it if I have 53 tabs open.

Or, y'know, it's pretty good how it is now, so feel free to just ignore this. :)

Thanks for the extension!


Thanks for the feedback!

Those are all good ideas and I am likely to implement them. I published the new version so it should be available within a few days for firefox and within a few hours for chrome.

If you have any other issues/feature requests/concerns you can submit an issues over here: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist


Just updated to 0.1.6. Unfortunately the new shortcut doesn't seem to be working on OS X Chrome. Version info: 53.0.2785.116 (64-bit)

Is there any debugging or diagnostic info I can provide?

In addition to Command-Shift-E, I've tried all variants of control/option/command/shift E.

The favicon change was awesome. Globally sorting by domain seems a little less necessary now.

Thanks again for the extension / update. This is great!


Not sure why that's not working for you. Let me download it from the chrome store and see. it's working for me on chrome osx 64bit same version of chrome.

Perhaps try restarting chrome and if that doesn't work you can try uninstalling the extension and reinstalling it. I just got the extension from the chrome store and command-shift-E worked fine. there is also the possibility that you have command-shift-e shadowed by another command(system wide shortcut or another extension). try going to chrome:extensions and going to the very bottom and selecting "keyboard shortcuts" and changing the one labeled "Toggle or activate a Tabist tab" the Tabist entry.

feel free to email me at the email in my profile if that doesn't work or if you figured out what the issue was.

cheers!


Aha! Thanks for that.

I think the problem was that I had Tabist installed before, and so the suggested keybind didn't take effect when I upgraded to a new version. Not a big deal with only a few users.

I didn't know about the keyboard shortcut menu. Here's what it originally looked like: http://i.imgur.com/jmTInyL.png

Much appreciated.

EDIT: On second thought, I have Tampermonkey installed, which apparently defaults to Command-Shift-E: http://i.imgur.com/DAEvgNB.png I think that was shadowing it.

Yeah, this extension rocks! I'm going to use this forever.


> Yeah, this extension rocks! I'm going to use this forever.

Awesome :D

Shoot me an email or add an issue on github if you think of anything that might be worth adding.

cheers!


The only other feedback I have is that when you open Tabist and click on a tab, it'd be nice if you automatically close the tabist tab (and if possible to re-focus the previously active tab, which isn't necessarily the rightmost tab). Otherwise you end up with multiple windows with Tabist in focus.

This is fantastic though. I've been telling my friends about Tabist and everyone's saying how useful it is.


That's on my list of todo items... thanks for the feedback and the recommendations! :)


>885 tabs

is that intentional, or do you just never close tabs? How do you navigate tabs without losing your mind?


Well it's part laziness (and priortising) and part working on an abstraction layer for the DOM API which can be quite hairy (it is known :P). So I have 10 windows open in total.

I have lots and lots of pages open of DOM documentation from many sources and many GitHub code searches to see how others' code deals with the mess. ~30% tabs are probably StackOverflow. The rest is (potentially useful) Google searches, programming blog posts and the usual pinned tabs (Gmail etc.).

I use a AutoHotKey script to make the scroll wheel switch between tabs (this is the default behavior on Ubuntu but I'm on Window), this way I can quickly scroll/look for the desired tab through an entire 100-150 tab window in 10-15 seconds. Thinking of this.. I would have probably indeed gone insane without the AHK script.. (or just kept fewer tabs opened instinctively? :P).


Please share your autohotkey script!


or without losing his Chrome ? - to a crash, I mean. Idda thought it would crash well before 885.




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