Like a buck showing off its woods, I often end up with several browser windows opened, each exposing many tabs corresponding to a common topic. For instance I might keep a window for personal email and social networks, one for professional email, calendar and slack, one for MOOCs, one for art stuff (ARTSY is awesome), one for web frameworks (I'm learning Lift) and one focusing on a specific area of Machine Learning. The thing is that sometimes I am browsing in "topic A" window and find a link relevant to "topic B" window. By default Chrome will allow me to open the link in a new tab in the same window or in a new window. Which kinda sucks. What I really want is to open that link in a new tab in "topic B" window.
tidytabs adds a contextual menu to any link, for you to choose which of the existing windows should be used to create the new tab.
Each window is identified by the title of its first tab, or the title of the window itself if it has no tabs. For any given window it's up to you to use a first tab that properly reflects that window's topic and try to keep those first tabs active when you switch between windows.
Not ideal, but kinda usable. That's it.
Drag and drop tidytabs.crx on your extensions page in Chrome (Options > Tools > Extensions).
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