rshev/movetabtonextwindow

Move tab to next window browser context menu/button extension

Move Tab to Next Window browser extension

A browser extension which adds a tab context menu item (Firefox) and a button action (Firefox & Chrome) to move a tab to the next window.

Especially useful for these amazing multi-monitor setups when it's too annoying to drag tabs around between windows.

• Mozilla Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/move-tab-to-next-window/
• Microsoft Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/ndjiippfnecdmbjenbcnjdbjnopkamno
• Google Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/move-tab-to-next-window/ibpemckpjfpmhlagogddlajhaiemdjaf

Quick feature list

• the source tab position is saved in all windows, so if it's moved back into a window, it moves into its original position
• CHROMIUM: if the tab is in a tab group, when moving it the identical group will be created or used in another window
• multiple tabs move - select multiple tabs (use shift or cmd/ctrl) and move all of them into the next window in the same order
• if the tab is active, it will become active in the new window
• if the tab is inactive, it will stay inactive in the new window
• if there is only 1 window, a new window will be opened on move
• keyboard shortcut support

Technologies used

• TypeScript in strict mode for safety
• Microbundler to build and transpile ts changes
• webextension-polyfill for compatibility with both Firefox and Chrome
• ESLint for linting

Contributions are welcome

Prerequisites:

• Node and NPM
• VS Code (recommended)

How to contribute:

• fork the project
• npm install
• npm run dev-ff or npm run dev-chrome, load unpacked extension from dist directory.
• make changes, open a PR

movetabtonextwindow's Issues

_Open_TabToNextWindow

This is a suggestion for a similar Firefox Addons.
The current addon moves a tab that is already opened. I'd like to open a new tab in the next window with a shift+click (or other modifier key).

The great advantage is while using 2 monitors:
eg. I'm reading the wikipedia webpage about Italy on my left monitor. I want to quickly open (shift+click) the link to Rome in a previous opened window that stays in the right monitor.
I don't want to wait that the Rome webpage is loaded, or focus on another tab and move it. I want to continue reading the Italy webpage on my left monitor. When the webpage on the right monitor is loaded, I can look at it.

Thank you for your time, I really appreciate your work :)

Extension button no longer working in Chrome

Starting to day my button isn't working anymore in Brave ([Version 1.49.132 Chromium: 111.0.5563.147 (Official Build) (arm64)])
When clicking the button there's no action, when I right click and go to move to next window it brings me to the github.

Feature Suggestion

I would love to be able to move all the Selected Tabs, not just the Active Tab.

Cheers!

Some tabs are stuck in a final window

Seems this complaint already exists on the store reviews

The tabs can only move in one direction. From window 1 to 2 to 3. You can't move them from 3 to 1. Last window is the terminal stop. Using on Chrome version 123.0.6312.87.
I think I know why it gets stuck on a window
I think it's because of special windows - that cannot take a tab. The list of windows needs to filtered for 'normal' windows, like:
let normalWindows = windows.filter(win => win.type === "normal");

For me, I see that in windowA clicking the extension does nothing, while in windowB clicking the extension sends the current tab to windowA.

[feature request] Adding a keyboard shortcut

This extension is neat, thank you! It's simple and does one job well.

Do you think it would be possible to add a shortcut as well?

Feature request: Ability to move tab to window logged into another profile

I regularly have Chrome windows logged in to two different profiles (when I'm at work - my work profile and my personal one, each with a different set of bookmarks, etc.). On occasion it would be nice to be able to move a tab from my work profile window to my personal profile window (or vice versa). Currently this extension will not do that, so I'm requesting that functionality be added.

not working with PWAs or other standalone sites

take https://devdocs.io/ as an example, it can be installed as an app and when launched Chrome opens an installed web app as its own top level app on macOS/Windows/etc.

while using said apps I find this extension often doesn't work, maybe it is trying to move my current tab to a window of a web app that it can't be moved to (you can only open things on that domain in the same installed web app so something on github.com can't be moved to a standalone installed web app for photos.google.com, etc.)

otherwise I really like how simple and effective this extension is; thanks!

Only consider windows on the current virtual desktop when moving tab to next window

I use Windows virtual desktops a lot in my workflow, on each desktop I might have 1 or 2 Firefox windows open. It would be helpful if this extensions would move the tab between the two windows on the current desktop (or open a new window in case there is only one open).

Currently, the tab will get moved between open windows on all desktops, which isn't that useful to me (as it limits me to one virtual desktop).

I cannot even install it, browser says add-on is damaged

OS: macOS 10.14.6 Mojave
Browser: Firefox v115.2.0esr

When I try to install it, a red warning shows up telling add-on is damaged and cannot be installed. The exact text is:

"The installation was aborted because the plug-in seems to be corrupted." (translated from Spanish) Find attached a capture.

Saluditos,

Ferrán.

Feature request: Create window in the other display

When there's only one window open in the main display (say my laptop screen), i very often want to move a tab to a new window and move the window to my secondary display (monitor screen for example). Doing this requires 2 steps now. A setting can be added to extension to do this in one step