'Search all Tabs' is a Chrome extension for indexing and searching tabs. It's designed to work offline, providing users with a powerful tool to find relevant terms in tab's title and content across multiple tabs swiftly. The extension supports search operators like 'AND' and 'OR' and over 30 languages. It also allows users to index their local files, avoiding duplication and even facilitating search within PDFs. Additional features include copying all URLs to the clipboard, grouping matched tabs into a new window, and closing selected tabs from the search results.
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This extension provides a powerful content searching tool for you to easily find the relevant tab among many open ones. Like all search engines, this extension supports search operators like "AND" and "OR". You can use this extension to find the relevant content when there are many open tabs like a normal tab manager extension. It is also possible to index local files as well. This extension supports parsing content from around 30 languages and displays a preview (snippet) for the matching result. You can click on each search entry to directly activate the container tab.
Notes:
Make sure to read the FAQs page to get yourself familiar with the search operators and keywords.
This extension works offline and stores the indexing database in your browser memory. There is no server-side interaction whatsoever.
This extension supports two different indexing engines: Xapian (a C++ engine) and Lunr (a pure JavaScript engine).
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Pros
Works well even with many open tabs
Great performance with minimal CPU load
User-friendly and improves searching through tabs
Useful for organizing and managing numerous tabs
Effective search results for specific content
Cons
Sometimes fails to find results in pages
Recent updates have caused slower indexing
Limited features for displaying results (e.g., small popup window)
Does not highlight searched terms on the page
Inconsistent search performance
Most mentioned
Works great with many tabs open
Slower indexing in recent updates
Fails to find results occasionally
Useful for searching through multiple tabs
User query about source code and licensing
Recent reviews
It seems very useful but really need a way to open the results in a new tab so plenty of space to show the list, or a way the user can define the popup window size, & also not to make it hover in available space, rather than cut off if it is 'outside the window'. It is extremely annoying how so many 'extensions' have very small display windows, far smaller than the minimum allowed size for the browser window itself, which is absurd, because it forces us to scroll like crazy & very inneficient because can't scan or remember everything at once in a tiny little microscopic window. You are literally throwing away 90% of the space you could be using to display results. The 'display results in a new tab' can fix all of that (if you don't cripple it by only using part of the space, like some crazy extensionsforce a 'line wrap' way before the edge of the window =)) More ideas at 'balkanguy (at) live (dot) com' =D
It's okay, but a much better search tab chrome extension is the suburb tab manager, TABLI, which, in a side-by-side comparison with this app, showed many more open and closed tabs with the search word.