joelweinberger/tab-rocker

Tab Rocker extension for Chrome

tab-rocker's Issues

"Reload and Close This Tab" button does not always close tab

On the install screen, the "Reload and Close This Tab" button successfully reloads the other tabs but fails to close the install tab on some platforms. This seems to be reproducible in Windows, but not Linux (and perhaps Mac, but I have not tested this directly).

Credit to @dweinberger for finding and reporting this bug.

Create multiple bindings

Dependent on #3

Create a way of having at least two different bindings for different kinds of history rocking. For example, ctrl-b cycles between the last two, and ctrl-B cycles between the last 10.

It might even make sense if this is an adjustable number of bindings so users can have as many as they want.

Change to use activeTab instead of all hosts

Current we use All Hosts permission to grab the shortcut keystroke to change tabs. This really should be changed to use a combination of chrome.activeTab (https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/activeTab) and chrome.commands (https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/commands) so it's not running on all pages (and, in fact, we never have to run a content script).

This should give both performance and security improvements, not to mention better behavior guarantees to the user.

Create custom icons

We need to create/add in some custom icons for the extension before we post it to the Chrome store.

Expand keys available for shortcut

Right now, users are limited to configuring their shortcuts to upper and lower case alphabet keys plus ctrl/alt/meta. It would be great if users could use more keys, but it's a little tough because the key codes in JavaScript on a keydown event are tough to deal with. Maybe there's some jQuery magic that will normalize things and make it easier? Or maybe we just have to suck it up and create a moderately complex function to figure out what's going on?

Create a stack of tabs, not just two

It might be worth somehow making a stack of "last used tabs," rather than just two tabs to switch between. Need to think about this though.