Immediate Adding Tabs To Corral

[andresdouglas]

This may be beyond the scope of the project and entering the turf of Pocket/Read It later, etc. But I was thinking, why have to wait for a tab to expire in order to add it to the corral. Have an easy way to add it if you know you're not going to need it for a while, but will probably need it later. Thoughts?

[sonntag]

Already exists. If you right click anywhere in the window there's a context menu for Tab Shepherd, which has an option to add the current tab to the corral immediately (very handy for testing).

I have been thinking of if there is a better place to put this option, but haven't come up with anything yet; suggestions welcome.

[andresdouglas]

Ah, yes, I thought I had seen something like that somewhere, but couldn't remember where. My instinct was to click on the actual tab when looking for this. That might be a good solution for now, maybe explain it by having a screenshot showing the use of that, or some sort of explanation in the pop up.

Alternatively you could have a list of currently open tabs in the pop-up, and allow users to do it from there. You could repurpose the "Tab Lock" tab to "Open Tabs" and allow locking + closing from there. Is the reason for showing only open tabs for the current browser windows as opposed to all windows a Chrome limitation? (Not sure how I feel about showing all tabs there, just curious)

[sonntag]

My instinct is to right click on the actual tab as well, however I couldn't find a way to add the context menu item there using the chrome plugin APIs. I'll think about adding that feature to the Tab Lock tab (not sure how I feel about that).

It's easily possible to have the Tab Lock tab show all open tabs across all windows (only requires modifying a single function call), but I'm not sure how I feel about that either. I've also been considering making the auto-close functionality only count tabs in a single window (so each window can have minTabs tabs) with a user preference to toggle it back to the current behavior, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.