[Ext] Tab Utilities 1.5 - light but featureful

[WHiZ]

Small glitch in 1.5.. When you right click on the back button, you get a history list to select from. Normal operation when you click is takes u back to that page etc. For some reason, now it pops up the menu, but when you click an item is doesn't go to that page it just does nothing.

[Floyd77]

The new tab moving animation feature introduced in Fx17 definitely conflicts with many TU features. I have temporarily disabled it as a workaround.

It seems that you disabled the animation as well. Thanks for the fast update!

Small glitch in 1.5.. When you right click on the back button, you get a history list to select from. Normal operation when you click is takes u back to that page etc. For some reason, now it pops up the menu, but when you click an item is doesn't go to that page it just does nothing.

Fixed in 1.5pre2. Update.

[Noooooo]

Thank you very much for the update!

Bugs FF17 clean profile, TU1.5pre2 default settings
Bug 1
Start opening new tabs in order to make scroll arrows on left and right of the tab bar appear. After arrows appear, start closing the tabs - you'll see that arrows are left even if there is only one tab open. You need to keep focus on FF window all the time because arrows dissappear if you switch to another application and back to FF.

Bug 2
Start opening new tabs in order to make "List of all tabs" button appear on the right end of the tab bar. Click on "List of all tabs" button - the dropdown list has some strange grey line on the right edge.

Bug 3
Multi-row tab bar enabled

Start opening many tabs in order to make 2nd row appear. Now click with LMB on any tab in the 2nd row and try to move it to any other place in the 2nd row. You'll see that after you release the LMB this tab suddenly moves to the 1st row.

And if you try to move any tab from the 1st row the same way, that tab will be moved to the 2nd row.

Bug 4
Open any site in tab, pin this tab, click middle mouse button on it. Tab will become transparent, click RMB on it. Should this menu "Cut, Copy, Delete, New Bookmark, etc" be there?

Bug 5
Open any site in tab, pin this tab, open another tab. Click middle mouse button on tab you've just pinned. It will become transparent, now click on it with LMB - you'll see that your current tab dissapeared.

UPDATE
Bug 6
When I click on tab with LMB and start dragging it, there is no arrow that shows the future position of the tab.

[fishnbird]

Works great, except for tab stacking (dragToStack). I really love that feature, can you fix it? Cheers!

The new tab moving animation feature introduced in Fx17 definitely conflicts with many TU features. I have temporarily disabled it as a workaround.

I understand about disabling features until the issue can be fixed. However, since the feature is still somewhat working - see below - I'm just going to share observations, hoping that it's helpful.

I opened my firefox this afternoon, still running TU1.5pre1. I noticed that I was able to stack tabs, but only if I drop my mouse below the address bar. If I drag the tab just horizontally, the tab will only be moved but not stack. I could reproduce this behaviour ~80% of the time, so there might be something else interfering also. I'm not sure what it could have been, because then I updated to TU1.5pre2, and the behaviour changed: now I can stack tabs (regardless of the trajectory of my mouse), but moving them is difficult. The small upward arrow indicating where a tab will be moved is not there anymore (probably part of the disabled features), but if precisely pointed between 2 tabs, the dragged tab is moved. This is finicky though, and most of the time, the tab ends up being stacjed. Also, once stacked, I cannot un-stack a tab. Only way I found was to drag it down to open it in a separate window, and then drag it back to the original window. This method only works when dragging the first tab in a stack, otherwise it drags the whole window instead.

I noticed another bug with TUpre2: open enough tabs to have too many to see them all in 1 row (I don't use a 2nd row). The left/right scrolling arrows are not visible in maximized window.

Like I said: hope this helps.

[ithinc]

Bugs FF17 clean profile, TU1.5pre2 default settings
Bug 1
Start opening new tabs in order to make scroll arrows on left and right of the tab bar appear. After arrows appear, start closing the tabs - you'll see that arrows are left even if there is only one tab open. You need to keep focus on FF window all the time because arrows dissappear if you switch to another application and back to FF.

It's the "delay resizing" feature.

Bug 2
Start opening new tabs in order to make "List of all tabs" button appear on the right end of the tab bar. Click on "List of all tabs" button - the dropdown list has some strange grey line on the right edge.

Not TU issue.

Bug 3
Multi-row tab bar enabled

Start opening many tabs in order to make 2nd row appear. Now click with LMB on any tab in the 2nd row and try to move it to any other place in the 2nd row. You'll see that after you release the LMB this tab suddenly moves to the 1st row.

And if you try to move any tab from the 1st row the same way, that tab will be moved to the 2nd row.

Confirmed, known issue.

Bug 4
Open any site in tab, pin this tab, click middle mouse button on it. Tab will become transparent, click RMB on it. Should this menu "Cut, Copy, Delete, New Bookmark, etc" be there?

Yes.

Bug 5
Open any site in tab, pin this tab, open another tab. Click middle mouse button on tab you've just pinned. It will become transparent, now click on it with LMB - you'll see that your current tab dissapeared.

Not reproduced.

Bug 6
When I click on tab with LMB and start dragging it, there is no arrow that shows the future position of the tab.

Confirmed, known issue.

[ithinc]

now I can stack tabs (regardless of the trajectory of my mouse), but moving them is difficult. The small upward arrow indicating where a tab will be moved is not there anymore (probably part of the disabled features), but if precisely pointed between 2 tabs, the dragged tab is moved. This is finicky though, and most of the time, the tab ends up being stacjed. Also, once stacked, I cannot un-stack a tab. Only way I found was to drag it down to open it in a separate window, and then drag it back to the original window. This method only works when dragging the first tab in a stack, otherwise it drags the whole window instead.

The black bold outline of the target tab indicates it's a stacking, otherwise it's a move. You may unstack a tab with the tab context menu.

I noticed another bug with TUpre2: open enough tabs to have too many to see them all in 1 row (I don't use a 2nd row). The left/right scrolling arrows are not visible in maximized window.

Not reproduced.

[fishnbird]

The black bold outline of the target tab indicates it's a stacking, otherwise it's a move. You may unstack a tab with the tab context menu.

I noticed the black bold outline. However, sometimes a tab gets stacked even though the outline is not present.

I noticed another bug with TUpre2: open enough tabs to have too many to see them all in 1 row (I don't use a 2nd row). The left/right scrolling arrows are not visible in maximized window.

Not reproduced.

Hmmm. I don't see this bug anymore either. Sorry about that, perhaps that restart I did solved it or I dreamed it. Anyways, not a problem anymore.

Thanks for the real quick responses!! Really appreciate it.

[Noooooo]

Bug 5
Open any site in tab, pin this tab, open another tab. Click middle mouse button on tab you've just pinned. It will become transparent, now click on it with LMB - you'll see that your current tab dissapeared.

Not reproduced.

Are you sure? Clean FF profile, TU1.2pre3 default settings. Tab you pin must have a site opened in it, google.com for example. Tab you open should be blank.

One more bug:
extensions.tabutils.pinTab.showPhantom=false.
Open google.com in tab, pin this tab, close this tab with middle mouse button click. Now open google.com in the only tab that is present on the tab bar. You'll see that the length of this tab was cut 50% and it is pinned (if you click with right mouse button on it you'll see that there is option to unpin tab).

[ithinc]

Bug 5
Open any site in tab, pin this tab, open another tab. Click middle mouse button on tab you've just pinned. It will become transparent, now click on it with LMB - you'll see that your current tab dissapeared.

Not reproduced.

Are you sure? Clean FF profile, TU1.2pre3 default settings. Tab you pin must have a site opened in it, google.com for example. Tab you open should be blank.

So you meant new blank tab. That's by design.

One more bug:
extensions.tabutils.pinTab.showPhantom=false.
Open google.com in tab, pin this tab, close this tab with middle mouse button click. Now open google.com in the only tab that is present on the tab bar. You'll see that the length of this tab was cut 50% and it is pinned (if you click with right mouse button on it you'll see that there is option to unpin tab).

Confirmed, thanks. This was introduced by 1.5pre2.

[K4RBQT99]

Glad to see that TU still lives. Thanks, ithinc.

Having Focus new tabs from: Duplicate Tab no checked, if I use Duplicate tab from the tab context menu, the new tab is open in background unloaded. Unexpected. A bug? EDIT: I see that it's a Fx behaviour (using shift + middle click on the reload toolbar button). Oh, well.

EDIT: I see the next message in the Error console at startup. Maybe harmless, tabs in titlebar isn't supported by Fx in linux:

Code: Select all

Error: Failed to hook TabsInTitlebar._update: TabsInTitlebar._update is not a function
File: chrome://tabutils/content/tulib.js
Line: 23

[ithinc]

Having Focus new tabs from: Duplicate Tab no checked, if I use Duplicate tab from the tab context menu, the new tab is open in background unloaded. Unexpected. A bug? EDIT: I see that it's a Fx behaviour (using shift + middle click on the reload toolbar button). Oh, well.

It's controlled by "Don't load tabs until selected" option, so no problem.

EDIT: I see the next message in the Error console at startup. Maybe harmless, tabs in titlebar isn't supported by Fx in linux:

Code: Select all

Error: Failed to hook TabsInTitlebar._update: TabsInTitlebar._update is not a function
File: chrome://tabutils/content/tulib.js
Line: 23

Yes, it's harmless here, but another practical error will happen when changing tab bar position. I'll fix it.

[Diamanti]

Double click on tab not close it.

[ithinc]

Double click on tab not close it.

Not reproduced.

[ithinc]

Version 1.5pre4 is released.

Works great, except for tab stacking (dragToStack). I really love that feature, can you fix it? Cheers!

Bug 3
Multi-row tab bar enabled

Start opening many tabs in order to make 2nd row appear. Now click with LMB on any tab in the 2nd row and try to move it to any other place in the 2nd row. You'll see that after you release the LMB this tab suddenly moves to the 1st row.

And if you try to move any tab from the 1st row the same way, that tab will be moved to the 2nd row.

Bug 6
When I click on tab with LMB and start dragging it, there is no arrow that shows the future position of the tab.

One more bug:
extensions.tabutils.pinTab.showPhantom=false.
Open google.com in tab, pin this tab, close this tab with middle mouse button click. Now open google.com in the only tab that is present on the tab bar. You'll see that the length of this tab was cut 50% and it is pinned (if you click with right mouse button on it you'll see that there is option to unpin tab).

EDIT: I see the next message in the Error console at startup. Maybe harmless, tabs in titlebar isn't supported by Fx in linux:

Code: Select all

Error: Failed to hook TabsInTitlebar._update: TabsInTitlebar._update is not a function
File: chrome://tabutils/content/tulib.js
Line: 23

All fixed in 1.5pre4.

[K4RBQT99]

EDIT: I see the next message in the Error console at startup. Maybe harmless, tabs in titlebar isn't supported by Fx in linux:

Code: Select all

Error: Failed to hook TabsInTitlebar._update: TabsInTitlebar._update is not a function
File: chrome://tabutils/content/tulib.js
Line: 23

All fixed in 1.5pre4.

I still see it at startup with TU 1.5