How to quickly find the page from your browser's history, bookmarks, and tabs.

Hi, I've created an web extension that can find the page you want from your browser's history, bookmarks and tabs.

In this article, I will explain how to use this web extension.

Features

An extension with the following features

• Incremental search across history, bookmarks, and currently open tabs
• Click and enter to move to the target.
• Smooth operation with keyboard shortcuts

The name of this extension is cikamichi.
The Japanese meaning of chikamichi is a shorter way.

All processing is done within the browser. No history data will be sent to the any server.

How to use

You can install it from Chrome web store or FireFox AMO.

• Firefox Add-Ons Repository (AMO)
• Chrome Web Store

After downloading the extension, press the alt（option） + k key to launch the search dialog.

Use useful shortcuts and search prefixes.
You can get to the page you want with just a few keyboard strokes.

Shortcuts

shortcut	action
Alt + k	Open search dialog
↓ or ↑ (Ctrl + n or Ctrl + p)	Select history
Enter	Open the selected url
Ctrl + Enter	Open the selected url in new tab

Search commands

commands	action
/h	Search only histories
/b	Search only bookmarks
/t	Search only tabs

Technology used

• TypeScript
• Vue.js
• Windi CSS
• Fuse.js
• Webext-bridge

All extension code is available on GitHub.

https://github.com/kawamataryo/chikamichi

That's it!

Then finish!

Thanks for reading.
This is my first post on devto and I'm happy to introduce my web extensions :)

Please send me a message if you need.

https://twitter.com/KawamataRyo

https://github.com/kawamataryo/chikamichi

Comments

[Igor Melo]

I didn't install it yet, but I already liked it :)

I would just suggest maybe a different name, because that is a bit hard to remember...
Or maybe just adding a short description to the name, like:
"Chikamichi - Quickly find a page" or something

[ryo]

Thank you! That's a good suggestion.
I'll add a short description.

[Igor Melo]

Another suggestion, if I may:
When I press alt K, it could show a list of websites i visited/bookmarked/etc, and then just filter it when I started to type.

Bonus: sort results by "frecency"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frecency

Thank you for this great tool!

[ryo]

Thanks.
I'll also try to fix the initial display and sort by frecency.

[Abelardus]

I would love to see it compatible for Opera browser. Great tool. Thanks!

[ryo]

Thanks!
I'll look into publishing to opera addons.

[Joe Pea]

Can you describe how it is better than Chrome's address bar? That would be helpful. :)

[ryo]

That's a good question.
It is superior to the chrome address bar in the following ways

• Past history that is not displayed in the address bar suggestions is also searchable.
• You can search for pages opened in tabs that are not shown in the address bar suggestions and move to the corresponding tab.
• You can also search for bookmarks that are not displayed in the address bar suggestions.

I guess I'd better put this in the extension description.