Reviews for Tabhunter
Tabhunter by Eric Promislow
3 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Scoox, 2 years agoI use this add-on all the time. Knocking two stars off because the hotkey feature is broken. The default hotkey (Ctrl+Shift+S) is used by Firefox to take a screenshot and the hotkey text box doesn't seem to allow typing, so I can't enter a custom key shortcut. It only allows deleting but once deleted you can't type anything, is this a bug?
Developer reply on 2023-05-22 16:35 PM: Which platform are you on?
Me on 2023-05-22 16:58: Windows 11 64-bit - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15656388, 5 years agoThe Tabhunter Extension is impossible to use when using a Dark Theme or Night mode or Reverse colored text on Computer Tablets, in Firefox or Windows where the window background color of Tabhunter has been switched to black or dark, because the Tabhunter text and button label text colors are hardcoded to be a very dark grey almost close to black, which is not distinguishable against a dark theme black background window color
A picture is worth a thousand words, so here's a screen snapshot capture of the problem - can you read anything in the Tabhunter window or on the buttons at all with near black text against a black window background color?
https://i.imgur.com/NKDDPQX.jpg
I would recommend un-hardcoding the text color to a dark grey color and instead do a call to get the current default text color for firefox window text or Windows (whichever applies) for the current Theme (in a dark theme scenario, in my case, it would be white text on a black background).
This is a high priority bug to fix because some people with vision problems have to switch to white text on black background because the glare from a white background screen is overpowering to look at and blinds them, and other people just like to run a dark theme because they hack at night in the dark at night, or a dark theme just looks cool. If you can't read the Tabhunter listing of Tabs or the Tabhunter button labels, it looks broken and functionally is unusable.
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A second unrelated recommendation I have is to make the Tabhunter window stretchable and expandable downward, so you can increase the viewing area of the list, or make the window detachable so it can be a floating window (if that is even possible with a Firefox extension dialog).Developer response
posted 5 years agoVersion 3.2.0 now puts Tabhunter in dark mode if the main theme is using dark mode. More specifically, the main theme needs to use a dark text background. A dark upper theme in the toolbar isn't sufficient.
As for the second request, I wish. Tabhunter used to be a resizable standalone window, but Mozilla removed that capability for add-ons when they switched to the current extension API. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14213852, 7 years agoThanks for the quick reply!
I will try CTRL+SHIFT+U but the main issue is that there is nothing I can do change the keys - the only key that does anything is the backspace key and I cannot put anything else in!
I am running Firefox nightly 64 bit - Minefield V63.0a1
(previous comment:)
Loved this addon for years. Have 717 tabs open at present. Glad to see it got updated recently - unfortunately I cannot use it on Windows 10 64bit as the default keystroke CTRL+SHIFT+S opens some firefox debugger tools
And I cannot alter the keystrokes - can delete keystrokes in the settings but not either type in a sequence such as CTRL+SHIFT+Y in text or using the 3 keys. There is no toolbar or menu item so I simply cannot get to it.
And no, I do not have the CTRL+1 option enabled.
I am using AllTabs Helper instead - it's a tad clunky, but would use TabHunter in preference if I could get to it.
Developer response
Sorry to hear that. There aren't many key-combinations that aren't owned by Windows. I got Ctrl-Shift-U to work (see https://github.com/ericpromislow/tabhunter/issues/92#issuecomment-393412713 ) And maybe you can use the Customize feature to put the Tabhunter icon in the toolbar