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Navigating Tabs - A suggestion for a new feature

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Description

Hi, hope you guys are doing well. I have a suggestion for a feature that can make navigating tabs little bit easier especially for a person who usually has high number of tabs open.

Navigating tabs is nice. But one feature that i think everyone would like is tabs switching the way clicking on buttons works. By using a special keyword we can trigger a tab navigation mode that overlays some keywords for every tab and we can just press those keywords to navigate to that specific tab. They way tab switching works right now is okay when you have small number of tabs open and mostly every tab is different site but for a person like me who has like a million tabs open searching through the tabs is some times hard especially when i have multiple tabs of same site open. We could assign a special key word to tab navigating mode the way "f" works "f" overlays on page we can use another keyword like "M" for example that trigers overlay just on tabs that way both actions will be different but will have the same feel.

Thanks.

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Start by reviewing Vimium’s existing tab-switching behavior and the f hint overlay described in the issue. Determine how a separate tab-only navigation mode would assign visible keywords and select the matching tab; done means the mode can be triggered independently and reaches the chosen tab.

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Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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