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tiger$tyle

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Aug 1, 2018
14
0
London
Hi all,

As someone who often has unmanageable numbers of tabs open (I'm talking hundreds), I'm always in need of management tools to get a handle on it.

One thing that would help a lot is a plugin/app/feature that would group all open tabs from the same site.

For instance, if I have 10 windows open, each with 10 tabs – and there are 15 instances of Twitter open, but across the 10 windows, I'd love a way of being able to click and summon all Twitter tabs to one new window.

And the same for every other site.. I'm sure that many of the tabs I have open are not important, and it would be much more helpful if I were able to group them after the fact.

Thanks for any suggestions ! (except, "have less tabs". That's exactly what I'm trying to clamp down on..)
 

Slartibart

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Aug 19, 2020
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You can do something like this in Applescript. I run a script for years to find all open tabs containing a certain term/keyword in title or URL. If only one tab is found it will bring it to the front, otherwise presents you a list from which you can select the one to open.
The latest modified version is available here.

Feel free to extend it to add all tabs found into a new tab group or a new window in Safari.
 
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tiger$tyle

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Aug 1, 2018
14
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London
You can do something like this in Applescript. I run a script for years to find all open tabs containing a certain term/keyword in title or URL. If only one tab is found it will bring it to the front, otherwise presents you a list from which you can select the one to open.
The latest modified version is available here.

Feel free to extend it to add all tabs found into a new tab group or a new window in Safari.
You hero! Thank you so much for sharing!!!
 

tiger$tyle

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Aug 1, 2018
14
0
London
You can do something like this in Applescript. I run a script for years to find all open tabs containing a certain term/keyword in title or URL. If only one tab is found it will bring it to the front, otherwise presents you a list from which you can select the one to open.
The latest modified version is available here.

Feel free to extend it to add all tabs found into a new tab group or a new window in Safari.
Sadly my AppleScript knowledge is non-existent, so extending it to all matching tabs is beyond me for now... I\ll try to read into it though, thank you
 

miamius001

macrumors newbie
Apr 24, 2023
19
5
Miami Florida
Wow
You can do something like this in Applescript. I run a script for years to find all open tabs containing a certain term/keyword in title or URL. If only one tab is found it will bring it to the front, otherwise presents you a list from which you can select the one to open.
The latest modified version is available here.

Feel free to extend it to add all tabs found into a new tab group or a new window in Safari.
Life saver!
 
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