tab creation time as file ctime

[osnr]

tab creation time as file ctime

[osnr]

Yeah, I think this would be great. I don't think there is an API for it, although I could be wrong -- I make a note about this here (added emphasis):

for a lot of things in the extension API, the browser can notify you of updates but there's no apparent way to query the full current state. so we'd need to sit in a lot of these places from the beginning and accumulate the incoming events to know, like, the last time a tab was updated, or the list of scripts currently running on a tab

If there is an extension API (or if it can be done through a Web page-side API with injected JS?), or if we do set up that time accumulation ourselves, it should be pretty easy to add the ctime to getattr in the code.

I think that you could do some cool subtleties, where the ctime is the time the tab was created and the mtime is the time of last navigation on that tab. (and I guess that would apply to both by-id/* and by-title/*. maybe last-focused has mtime based on the time you focused on that tab?)

[jtagcat]

Related: #21

[vu3rdd]

There is a lastAccessed field in the Tab object. I don't see anything else in there related to creation/modification time.