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https://github.com/cxw42/TabFern

Google Chrome extension for saving and restoring sets of tabs, and for switching between windows and tabs from a vertical, grouped list.
https://github.com/cxw42/TabFern

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Google Chrome extension for saving and restoring sets of tabs, and for switching between windows and tabs from a vertical, grouped list.

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/cxw42/TabFern
Owner: cxw42
License: other
Created: 2017-08-10T15:12:45.000Z (over 7 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2024-05-17T00:07:48.000Z (6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2024-10-20T11:47:06.736Z (24 days ago)
Topics: chrome, chrome-extension, google-chrome, google-chrome-extension, hacktoberfest, javascript-applications, jstree, research-tool, tab-management, web-browsing
Language: JavaScript
Homepage: https://cxw42.github.io/TabFern/
Size: 10.3 MB
Stars: 170
Watchers: 16
Forks: 29
Open Issues: 139
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE.md

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README

        # TabFern

[![Join the chat at https://gitter.im/TabFern/Lobby](https://badges.gitter.im/TabFern/Lobby.svg)](https://gitter.im/TabFern/Lobby?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge)

## Developing on TabFern

 - For more information on developing TabFern, see

   [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).

 - See [INTERNALS.md](INTERNALS.md) for details of how the code is structured.

**Update 2019-09-30** Please do not use any code from Stack Overflow —

see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

## What is TabFern?

![screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cxw42/TabFern/gh-pages/assets/img/screenshot.png)

**TabFern** is a [Google Chrome extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabfern-tab-manager-and-b/hbajjpcdbninabigakflkhiogmmjaakm) that:

 - Gives you a vertical list of all your open tabs

 - Groups your tabs by window

 - Saves sets of tabs so you can close them and resume later

 - Backs up and restores sets of tabs

# Usage

 - Click the icon to open the TabFern view.  The view will also open when

   you start Chrome.

 - When you open windows or tabs, or rearrange windows or tabs _within a

   particular browser window_, the tree will update.

 - To mark a window to be saved, you have two choices:

     1. Give the window a name using the pencil icon (![image](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cxw42/TabFern/master/static/assets/icons/pencil.png)).

     1. Hit the middle icon showing a rectangle with a red dot

   (![image](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cxw42/TabFern/master/static/assets/icons/picture_delete.png)).  The window will close.

 - Folder icons are:

     - Open, unsaved: a monitor (![image](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cxw42/TabFern/master/static/assets/icons/monitor.png))

     - Open, saved: a monitor with a green dot (![image](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cxw42/TabFern/master/static/assets/icons/monitor_add.png)).

     - Closed, saved (closed unsaved aren't in the tree): a white file folder.

 - Saved windows will be saved even if you close them manually.  To remove them

   from the tree, hit the delete icon (red X,

   ![image](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cxw42/TabFern/master/static/assets/icons/cross.png)).

 - Windows you do not expressly save will not be saved when you exit!

   I am open to discussion of better ways to handle this.

# Limitations

 - There is only a two-level hierarchy --- tabs cannot be the children

   of other tabs in the tree.

 - You cannot open and close individual tabs --- you have to open and close

   the window as a whole (work is in progress --- see issue 35).

 - Where new windows open may not always be where Chrome would open a new

   window.

   Currently, the original size/position of the last-focused or last-closed

   window is generally where the new window will end up.

 - Lots of others I'm not going to list right now!

# Thanks

 - [Extensionizr](https://extensionizr.com)

 - [jstree](https://www.jstree.com/)

 - [jstree-actions](https://github.com/alexandernst/jstree-actions)

 - [jquery](https://jquery.com/)

 - [Barnsley fern generator](http://www.chradams.co.uk/fern/maker.html)

 - [famfamfam Silk icons](http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/)

# Legal

Copyright (c) 2017--2019 Chris White and contributors.  CC-BY-SA 3.0, or any

later version.  See [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md) for details, which are controlling

in case of any difference between that file and this section.

Contributors are listed in [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md).

Originally inspired by

[Tabs Outliner](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggkanocgddhmamlbiijnphhppkpkmkl)

by Vladyslav Volovyk.  However, TabFern is not derived from Tabs Outliner.

TabFern is not affiliated in any way with Vladyslav or Tabs Outliner.

![logo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cxw42/TabFern/gh-pages/assets/img/fern128.png)