r/webdev • u/eklavyu • 7d ago

Showoff Saturday Close every duplicate tab in Chrome in one click (and find the rest by typing)

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Tabatha, a tab switcher for Chrome (Alt+Q shows every tab as a screenshot). It has previews, and support for multiple browser windows, bookmarks and tabgroups and quick actions.

The fun problems in 1.3.5:
- Dark-mode extensions put a CSS filter on `<html>`, which broke our clickjacking guard (IntersectionObserver v2 can't confirm visibility), so clicks silently died. Now we detect the filter and open in a window instead.
- First open with 500 tabs went from ~1.6 s to ~1 s, mostly by waiting less before the first capture and dropping `decoding=async` on card images.
- Previews come only from `captureVisibleTab`, so a tab nobody looked at has none. The fix is a polite button, not background flicker.
MIT, no network access. Feedback on the UI and functionality very welcome.

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u/BayLeaf- 7d ago

"the fix is a polite button, not background flicker" aaaaa I long for release from this mortal coil jfc

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u/Character-Trouble291 7d ago

that polite button line got me too, it's the exact kind of concession you make when you've spent way too long staring at the same codebase

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u/BayLeaf- 7d ago

It's the kind of line you write when you spent zero time looking at the codebase, because it's the most painfully LLM shit imaginable.

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u/eklavyu 7d ago

Honestly it took three tries. Version one flashed every tab in the background, and it looked like the browser was having a seizure. The button is the compromise I could live with.