TabSorter2

A Tab Manager for Google Chrome; Merge, Sort, Split, and More :)

• Merge
  • merges all windows
• Sort
  • sort tabs by domain and titles
  • can sort all windows or just a single one
  • configurable in option window
• Split
  • splits a window in 2 ( by default )
  • can be change to 3 or 4 in option window
  • windows can be seen side by side if the option is checked
• Split by Domain (new)
• Shuffle
  • will shuffle the tabs within the current window (it's just fun xD)
• Unite (new)
  • bring all the tabs of a domain together at the most right of the current window
• Isolate (new)
  • extract all tabs of a domain into a new window
• Freeze (new)
  • Discard all open tabs to save on memory - all pages will turn blank
  • pages will remain open in your browser
• Close (new)
  • Closes all tabs under a domain
  • multiple subdomain are not currently supported
• Save
  • save current window to a text file
  • links are shortened using google URL Shortener
  • the file content is sorted by page title
• Load (new)
  • loads all the tabs previously saved in one new window and automatically freeze them
  • backward compatible
  • will load up to 2mb
• Deduplicate
  • remove deplicate open url tabs from current window
• Options
  • open the extension option window
  • options need to be saved to persist

Preview

--New v1.1--

--Old v0.1~0.5--

Build quirks

• build moved to webpack :)

Versions

Ideas and Enhancements - TODO: v1.2.0

HARD and Experimental ...

• [ ] Undo any steps (partially implemented)
• [ ] Alarm mode - a tab will become active and focused after some times- ... ( done - not added)

new features

• [ ] Add support for shotcuts
• [ ] Add support for context Menu
• [ ] Save current tab to Clipboard - ( sometimes we just want to copy all the url and not save them first 🤷🏾‍♂️ )

update to existing features

• [ ] enhance sort function
• [ ] ignore on merge - TS2 will ignore specific URLS on merge
• [ ] Create integration test
• [ ] revisit Deduplicate & ignore after delimiter
• [ ] ignore params after special characters - #,& ( expected to affect - sorting, deduplicating)

bug fixes

• [ ] improve handling of pinned_tabs

v1.1.0 - WIP - 01/05/2020

• v0.0.6 - Abandoned due to a change in chrome API - 08/21/2019
• [x] complete redesign and refactoring

Options Window

• [x] Improve sorting - add options to sort by regex pattern and parameters
• [x] Upgrade split function to split left on current tab - split Here
• [x] auto sort tabs - sort as they are loaded

Main Background

• [x] added support for subdomain - thanks to publicsuffix.org

• [x] Make loadfile backward compatible

• [x] useActive* function on start

• [x] split backgroundjs

• [x] Save pinned tabs

• [x] Transfer pinned tabs on-close

• [x] Ignore pinned tabs onClose

• [x] Add Support for pinned Tabs ( this was suprisingly complicated 😅)

• [x] Sort and pin tab separatly

• [x] Merge the last 2 windows

• [x] Subdomain subsorting - WIP

• [x] Options to automatically sort the tabs by title

• [x] Search my tabs ( 😁 - idk yet how it gonna happen lol ) (Done but not added to TS2)

• [x] Improve the design :)

v0.0.5 - 06/22/18 - Added new features and improved icon for visibility

• fixed windows id bug on split
• added tab recycling
• [x] Options to automatically sort the tabs by title
• [x] Isolate a single domain in a separate windows
• [x] Unite - bring all tabs of a domain in the same current window ~~
• [x] Close a domain
• [x] Backward compatible loading of previously saved Tabs YASSS !!!
• [x] Stress test split function and memory management
• [x] Freeze - (Discard) remove all tabs in current window from memory but leaves the tab visible in the browser

v0.0.4 - 09/18/17 - Completed the Option page with support for side by side split

v0.0.3 - 04/08/17 - Updated UI - added Save & Deduplicate

v0.0.2 - 03/23/17 - Fixed initialization issue.

v0.0.1 - 03/23/17 - Merge/split/shuffle functionality added.