Ability to search in Tabs Outliner DB ?

[macsunmood]

Ability to search in Tabs Outliner DB ?

[jaekyeom]

As a Tabs Outliner user I would love this feature, but I'm not sure if accessing TO's data from this extension without modifying TO is even possible.

[rubycoder]

@jaekyeom I think back engineering == reverse engineering

[macsunmood]

@rubycoder you're right. TO is currently still the best browser tabs management extension on the planet. Abandoned.

[macsunmood]

As a Tabs Outliner user I would love this feature, but I'm not sure if accessing TO's data from this extension without modifying TO is even possible.

@jaekyeom
Do you mean some additional permissions needed to read the local db file? Could certainly be the case..

[jaekyeom]

@macsunmood
Afaik, yes.
Actually, I believe it should be more hacky than just additional permissions to do that (e.g., writing a native application that reads and passes the DB for Quick Tabs, storing TO's DB in a synced storage service and reading it from Quick Tabs, ...).

[macsunmood]

@jaekyeom what do you think about back engineering TO ?

[SamHasler]

@macsunmood are you aware of the Tab Fern extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabfern-tab-manager-and-b/hbajjpcdbninabigakflkhiogmmjaakm
https://github.com/cxw42/TabFern

It's not got all the features of Tab Outliner but contributing to that would probably be quicker than starting from scratch.

[macsunmood]

@SamHasler I'm quite aware of it and have been using it for a while, and, pardon me, it heavily sucks against the background of TO in terms of UI/UX and overall GUI speed. I really doubt it would be the good way, and TO has all the scripts open in it's core folder, it's just a great pity I'm not very proficient in JS to be able to reasonably back engineer it (I code python 95% time myself).

[macsunmood]

@SamHasler are you interested in reverse engineering some TO guts and making it orders of magnitude better? :)

[jaekyeom]

@jaekyeom what do you think about back engineering TO ?

I'm not sure what you meant by back engineering exactly, but I can't imagine a clean working solution to this issue 😢

[SamHasler]

@macsunmood my time is limited. I'd rather contribute incremental improvements to an existing open source project than start a project of my own from scratch. I might have some time soon (a few hours) to work on some Tab Fern improvements and that's it.

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