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Brief Summary
I often make a new tab so that I can get an empty search bar into which i can type the name of a tab I'm looking for.
It would be nice if these left-over tabs would auto-close

Details:
I would be open to other solutions to my "quick navigation" use case. The idea is that it's faster for me to remember a part of the URL/Name than it is for me to find it in the 100 tabs

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  • Vlad replied to this.

    Sorry, it's a bit messy.

    These are probably two things. I'll focus on the "ideal" one.

    It would be nice to have a keyboard-based quick navigation for open tabs.

    Slack and Discord both have "quick nav" bound to CMD+K, which brings up this

    It would be nice to have something similar for tabs. In the list under the "search", it would be nice to have a small selection of

    • recently visited tabs
    • tabs that are currently playing something
    • tabs using camera/mic
    • tabs that have recently triggered notifications.

    I don't think the UX needs to be necessarily similar, the "layout" is different to the chat apps and there already is a "search bar" of sorts that could be extended for this usecase.

      As a sidenote, I currently "abuse" a new tab which I can create with a CMD+T for this. I can quickly find some of the currently open tabs there, but the annoying thing with that is that it leaves behind a useless empty tab.

      The original ask was to auto-close tabs that are created like this, but thinking more about it, that's probably bizarre behaviour for a usecase that might deserve its own attention.

      • Vlad replied to this.

        That shortcut is bound to "italicise" in a lot of the apps I use already, and it still leaves behind an extra tab.

        Having an "internal spotlight" of sorts would be ideal I think.

        • Vlad replied to this.

          Vlad

          Comparing it with Ctrl+A of Chrome the main concern is that the Orion implementation is not snappier as it should be to replace a cursor / cycle tab navigation.
          That's because while typing the url the already open tab appears below "Top Hits", and so requires one or multiple bottom arrow taps

          4 months later

          Came back to Onion today, i'm gonna bump this thread 😄

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