/hare-chrome

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Highlights

  • Gives a familiar macOS Spotlight like interface to quickly jump between tabs across windows.
  • Jump to a tab and quickly return to where you were for replying to that quick message or changing a song.
  • Fuzzy search in all the open tabs across windows. Search on the title or URL of the tabs.
  • Quickly mute-unmute tabs from a filtered down list of tabs which are audible.
  • See the tabs which aren't audible now but were a while back. This is useful for times like when you want to reply to a message you got a couple of minutes back.
  • Highly accessible. Completely navigable usable just your keyboard.
  • Keyboard shortcuts for switching to a tab, toggling mute of a tab, jumping back to the last tab, etc.

Setup for local development

Clone the repo. In the root of the cloned repo run the following commands,

npm install

npm run watch This will keep the files in dist directory updated.

Installing the extension

  1. Open the Extension Management page by navigating to chrome://extensions.
  • The Extension Management page can also be opened by clicking on the Chrome menu, hovering over More Tools then select Extensions.
  1. Enable Developer Mode by clicking the toggle switch next to Developer mode.
  2. Click the LOAD UNPACKED button and select the extension directory.

After making any changes press the reload button on the extension card on chrome://extensions page.

Build instructions: For development

  1. npm install
  2. npm run watch This will keep the files in dist directory updated.

To build it for adding it to the firefox:

  1. npm run build
  2. Run command node build/create-archive.js, this will output a zip file in the chrome-extension-archive folder which can be used to add to the firefox.