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I'd like to see a functionality in Orion that's similar the command+p function in applications like Sublime/VS Code, or launchers like Alfred. Basically, with a shortcut(configurable) pressed, a list of all open tabs and their titles are presented in a modal or popover, and users can either use the arrow keys to scroll through the list, or start typing to fuzzy search the tab they want to jump to.

I understand this is somewhat already possible, by typing in the address bar. However, the difference or what's missing is that, when focusing on the address bar, nothing shows by default unless users start typing, and only tabs matched the input will show up, but not the full list of tabs.

  • Fortrikka replied to this.

    • Vlad

    • Best Answerset by Vlad

    We can add Find Tabs... in File -> under Open Location... and shortcut to shift cmd a. This will open address bar only in tab search mode similar to chrome.

    2 months later

    Yijia This feature has partially been added, with the list of previews being shown when control+tabbing.
    The issue here is that you do not want the previews, so only the window title previews should be kept alongside the arrow key navigation, which has not been implemented yet.

        2 years later

        Oh yea, this would be nice. Since sometimes you can have multiple saved windows and multiple opened profiles. If there is a way to search across all of that that would be awesome

          3 months later

          Would love this. Or even something similar to chrome's shift+cmd+a functionality:

          • Vlad replied to this.

            Ibash What does this do that cmd l does not?

                The main difference is that cmd+l is optimized for searching for new things while shift+cmd+a is optimized for switching tabs and finding things you've seen before.

                It's subtle but it means that when my intention is to switch tabs, but I'm a tab hoarder who has a lot of tabs, shift+cmd+a quickly gets me what I want. Without that if I can't quickly find an open tab I end up reopening duplicate results.

                In particular:

                1. shift+cmd+a only allows searching tabs or recent history. So if you search for a word "atm" you can't accidentally do a google search for "atm" or go to "atm.com"
                2. Since currently opened tabs are the first thing showin in shift+cmd+a results, the first result is usually what you want. Vs with cmd+l the first results are top hits, suggestions, and then bookmarks, before you get to open tabs.
                3. Shift+cmd+a seems to operate on substring exact matches, which means if you see a result lower in the list you can quickly keep typing to filter down to one tab and select it (vs having to reach for the arrow keys).

                cmd+l vs shift+cmd+a comparisons below

                "free atm"


                When I don't have a tab open / haven't seen it before:

                • Vlad replied to this.

                  Ibash OK so this could easilly be solved by shift cmd a still wroking off the address bar, just turning off anything that is not tab search. The question is how would users discover this?

                      easilly be solved by shift cmd a still wroking off the address bar, just turning off anything that is not tab search

                      I would use that 😃

                      The question is how would users discover this?

                      Not sure, I only discovered the feature in chrome when a friend of mine told me about it.

                        We can add Find Tabs... in File -> under Open Location... and shortcut to shift cmd a. This will open address bar only in tab search mode similar to chrome.

                        a year later

                        Hey @Vlad any updates on this? I see cmd+shift+a does open up the search bar but is not resetricted to the open tabs?

                          a month later

                          I see it was "Under Review" a whlie ago. Was this ever implemented @Vlad ?

                          Work around would be to use the PowerSwitch Chrome extension but unfortunately, that extension is not working on Orion.

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