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Discussion on: What side projects are you currently working on and how can others be of help? (Feb 4)

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Pramjeet Ahlawat

I am working on a chrome extension for tabs management, called peek-a-tab. A properly working but limited on features version is already available in the chrome store at chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/....

I know there are already a lot of tabs managers out there in chrome store but all of them just opens a list of your tabs, you click on a item and the tabs opens up. But what I wanted was to look what's happening in a tab quickly and close it if it's not required anymore.

Few things I tried to do with the extension are:

  1. Lightweight as much as possible because a system is already on load when a lot of tabs are opened.
  2. To shift to another tab as fast as possible, search the URL and title of the tab.
  3. Multiple window support. The extension shows a list of all tabs from all the windows.
  4. Quickly get a peek on what's happening in a tab.
  5. Closing a tab from the list itself.
  6. By combining 4 and 5, it's very easy to get rid of all the unnecessary tabs quickly.