alan-daniel / tabby

A web extension for managing great amounts of windows and tabs at ease.

What is it?

Tabby is an open-source window & tab manager that can manage great amounts of windows and tabs at ease.

You can install the latest stable version of Tabby on it's Firefox Add-on page: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/tabby-window-tab-manager/ Or, to install the newest development version, see the Building, Installing, and Editing section.

Contributing

If you like this project, please share it. Your support is always welcomed!

Tabby is an open-source project and is in active development, so feel free to submit any issues that you are experiencing and I will do my best to fix it. And if you can fix the issue altogether, feel free to submit a pull request!

Building, Installing, and Editing

Prerequisites

• Git
• Node.js
• Firefox >= 59 (recommended)
  or
  Chrome >= 49 (fully tested on Chrome 72)

Building Tabby

1. Open a git enabled shell of your choice (e.g. Command Prompt, Git Bash)
2. Get the source code
   git clone https://github.com/Bill13579/tabby.git
3. Go into the Tabby directory
   cd tabby
4. Install dependencies with npm
   npm install
5. Build Tabby
   Firefox: npm run build:firefox
   Chrome: npm run build:chrome
   WebExtension: npm run build:webext

Installation

Firefox

This will install Tabby as a temporary add-on, so you will need to re-do this everytime you restart Firefox.

1. Start Firefox
2. Go to about:debugging
3. Press on the Load Temporary Add-on... button
4. Select the manifest.json file in the dist directory

Chrome

1. Start Chrome
2. Go to chrome://extensions
3. Press on the Load unpacked button
4. Select the dist directory

Editing & Testing

After you edit the code, you will need to build again.

Re-do Step 5 of Building Tabby and

• on Firefox, press the Reload button in the Tabby section of the about:debugging page.
  
• on Chrome, press the button in the Tabby section of the chrome://extensions page.

Note: Content Scripts will only be reloaded for each tab once that tab is refreshed.

File Structure

icons/ - Directory for storing Tabby icons
icons/tabby.svg - Tabby icon (Vector)
icons/tabby.png - Tabby icon (Raster)

release/ - Release zip files

screenshots/ - Screenshots
screenshots-archive/ - Old screenshots of old releases

dist/ - Distribution directory
src/ - Source code directory (for more info, go to the README.md file in that directory)

LICENSE - License file
README.md - README file