If you’re like me. You have too many tabs open. So many in fact that you might open the same tab multiple times because you forgot when you last opened it.
Firefox tab search is your friend
When using Firefox, there’s a hidden feature which I only found out about last week. You can restrict to search to your own open tabs. This avoids you opening the same site multiple times because
Try hitting cmd+L (or ctrl l on linux, I guess) as usual, to start entering a new url to visit.
But first add a percent symbol, add a space then start typing. Firefox will show a list open tabs that match the text you’re typing:
Not bad eh?
One day every browser will have this.
Till then, it’s nice that firefox is free.
Update: it turns out there are even more nice things here. It turns out that there are a whole raft of different searches you can carry out with the mozilla awesome bar thing, to only search your favourites, only in your browsing history and so on. I found this out from Antony Ricaud’s tweet below after Simon picked up on my own tweet when I discovered this nifty little feature.
There’s even more shortcuts like this: https://t.co/4DYkfocKPJ
* filters bookmarks (because star)
# filters titles
@ filters URLs
and more.— Inactive Anthony Ricaud – @anthony (@anthony_ricaud) January 8, 2018