Mimieam / TabSorter2

Google Chrome Tab Management Extension - Merge, Sort, split and more :) - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabsorter2/lmmmdnmgmgnimgcfbnomdgeldehlfafn

TabSorter2 - Enhancing your browsing experience 1 click at a time

Welcome to TabSorter2, the Browser extension that helps you sort, merge, and manage your tabs intuitively.

New Website - TabSorter2.com

Features Documentation

Permissions Documentation

Disclaimer: I'm still not a Designer 😅, but I've learned a thing or two over the past few years of working on TabSorter2 and I still welcome feedbacks – please be nice 🙂

New Direction

First of, I would like to thank you all for the love and support, from all your emails and comments! I really wish I could have kept working on TS2 for free, but as the past few years have shown, that isn't sustainable anymore.

So starting with version 2.0.0, TabSorter2 will be a subscription-based extension following a freemium model.

What was once a little weekend project 6 years ago has turned into a daily commitment with little to no rewards. Don't get me wrong, I truly love working on TS2, especially coming up with fun new features to enhance the browsing experience. I have plans for many new features, options, and enhancements on the Roadmap and strongly desire to bring TS2 to other browsers! In short, I want to focus on that without worries of becoming homeless 😅

And if I've learned anything from migrating to Manifest... massive, free refactoring work doesn't pay the bills 🤷🏾‍♂️

So what can you expect with TabSorter2 v2.0.0?

• The basic core features, Merge/Sort/Shuffle/Save/Load along with bug fixes/security updates, will remain free forever for everyone
• The advanced and experimental features will require a small monthly payment of $4.99 to enjoy.

My hope is that with your continuous support, I will be able to keep on improving TS2 and release new features every ever 2 to 3 months (I do have a long list of new features as well as other productivity extensions... WsL👀.

Roadmap / Backlog

Suggestions:

• Add support for context Menu
• Save current tab to Clipboard - (sometimes we might want to copy all the url and not save them first 🤷🏾‍♂️)
• enhance sort function
• ignore on merge - TS2 will ignore specific URLS when merging all windows
• revisit Deduplicate & ignore after delimiter
• Add a whitelist to prevent deduplicating on specifics URLs
• ignore params after special characters - #,& ( expected to affect - sorting, deduplicating)
• Optional sorting on pinned tabs
• deduplicate on all windows not just the current one
• Welcome page / Wiki and Documentation
• Safari and Mozilla experimentation

Enhancements:

• add behavioral options to remove redundant all/current buttons?
• Undo last 2 action

Wild Ideas:

These are some ideas that I have been thinking about, but have yet to figure out their feasibility and if they are worth investing dev time.

• split in multiple layout patterns.. e.i: 3x1, 4*4
• add Group support to sorting/merging/split
• save and reload tab groups (the tabGroup API isn't sorting friendly...)
• user defined functionalities?

Version History

[v2.3.0] WIP(#42) by priorities

• tab group
• auto close
• session page
• undo

[v2.2.12] - 04/08/2023

• Fixed deploy Incident.
• updated webpack prod build

[v2.2.8] - 03/31/2023

• Hotfix for version 2.2.0 - a file got ignored by the new packaging system, resulting in the app not working.

[v2.2.0] (#35) - Released - 03/30/2023

Added/Done:

• Free trials of all features
• Regular option page
• Popup Option on Right Click
• Click Counter initial implementation
• Chronological Sorts
  • lto - last tab opened
  • mrv - most recently viewed
• The Box 😎 (highly experimental)
• firefox migration investigation

Changed:

• UI updates
• security updates (npm dependencies)
• fixed storage issue
• Tab Info Map (TIM) - 2nd Iteration - improved speed
• fixed internal messaging (some clicks were not received by the service worker)
• WIP - a library grouping of many of the custom internal functions to reuse in newer projects

v2.1.0 - 09/13/2022 (Released - Current)

Added:

• Basic shortcuts added
  • sort_current: Alt+Shift+S
  • merge_all: Alt+Shift+M
  • shuffle: Alt+Shift+F
  • discard (freeze): Alt+Shift+D
• Behavioral button
  • Auto Sorting (Active Sorting)
  • Pinned Tab auto follow (Active Pinning)
  • Discard tabs after 45min of inactivity
  • Auto Save and Close tabs after 1hr of inactivity (done but disabled - pending session companion page... )
• Tab Info Map (TIM) - initial implementation
• Alarms permission (used by TIM to determine when a tab should be discarded)
• Help Tooltip

Changed:

• fixed pin tab indexing bug

v2.0.0 - Targeted Release date: August 2022

Added:

• Switch to MV3
• Focus/Unfocus functionalities
• Reload extension button
• Stack windows functionality ( stack all windows in a corner of you screen )
• alarms permission to manifest - workaround to keep SW alive when MV3 tries to kill it every 3minutes... sigh

Changed:

• complete re-write of the extension
• full support for MV3 and cross-browser
• Download permissions is now an optional_permissions
• Active Sorting - temporarily disabled
• Active Pinning - temporarily disabled

Removed:

• Removed Permissions: activeTab, management, notification
• Option page (de-prioritized to handle permissions refactoring)
• disabled Regex Sorting
• exclusion_list from merge all tabs
• fuzzy search for tabs - no point anymore ... chrome has it natively
• Tab Alarm mode - temporarily disabled

v1.2.0, v1.6.0, v1.8.0 - discontinued due to migration to Mv3... (Dec2020 ~ May2021)

• 8 new features added:
  • focus/Unfocus
  • stack
  • layout preference
  • global fuzzy search
  • Undo x3
  • Time Base Tab Closing
  • reloadAllWindows
  • vertical domain tab: force each new tab to merge be with another one with the same domain... a vertical collapsible bar appear to let you navigate the many tabs under a domain
• 15 enhancements ( smart deduplicate, smart load, bifrost freeze... and so much more :D )

v1.1.0 - 01/05/2020

• v0.0.6 - Abandoned due to a change in chrome API - 08/21/2019

• complete redesign and refactoring

• Options Window:

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

• Main Background:

  • added support for subdomain - thanks to publicsuffix.org
  • Make load-file backward compatible
  • useActive* function on start
  • split background.js
  • Save pinned tabs
  • Transfer pinned tabs on-close
  • Ignore pinned tabs onClose
  • Add Support for pinned Tabs ( this was surprisingly complicated 😅)
  • Sort and pin tab separately
  • Merge the last 2 windows
  • Subdomain sub-sorting - WIP
  • Options to automatically sort the tabs by title
  • Search my tabs ( 😁 - idk yet how it gonna happen lol ) (Done but not added to TS2)
  • Improved design :)

v0.0.5 - 06/22/18

• Added new features and improved icon for visibility
• fixed windows id bug on split
• added tab recycling
• Options to automatically sort the tabs by title
• Isolate a single domain in a separate windows
• Unite - bring all tabs of a domain in the same current window ~~
• Close a domain
• Backward compatible loading of previously saved Tabs YASSS !!!
• Stress test split function and memory management
• 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.