tabist VS ranger

Compare tabist vs ranger and see what are their differences.

tabist

Simple Tab Manager Extension for Chrome and Firefox. (by fiveNinePlusR)
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tabist ranger
4 165
44 14,889
- 1.6%
0.0 6.5
over 5 years ago 18 days ago
JavaScript Python
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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tabist

Posts with mentions or reviews of tabist. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-18.
  • TabFS ā€“ a browser extension that mounts the browser tabs as a filesystem
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2023
    I have a extension that does that almost pretty identically to what you are looking for... it does list out every page you have but doesn't list the url. there is an unreleased version that I use that has a tab dumping to json that I use for just that session restore reason.

    Maybe I'll finish the updated version and release it soon.

    feel free to check it out: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/

    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog...

  • My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2023
    I wrote a little webext to help me find tabs in a visual way grouped by window. middle click closes the tab and left click brings the tab you click on to the forefront. It's simple but something I use many times every day.

    feel free to try it out:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/

    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog...

    https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist

  • Overcoming Tab Overload
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 May 2021
    for a lot of people you search for something to solve a problem. for instance debugging an issue. you middle click on a bunch of promising tabs and then go through them. if there is some useful information on that page you leave it open but it's rare that it's the only thing you need to know to solve your problem. another use is some API you need to use so you'd open up a bunch of tabs on the functions you are exploring how you need to use them.

    I also separate the issue by window too and also use tabs and windows as temporary bookmarks really. not worthy of a full bookmark but not finished with.

    I created an webextension to deal with handling those tabs because having a bunch of tabs across a bunch of windows is not the most ergonomic without one. might be useful for someone here I suppose: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist

    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog...

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/

  • TabFS: Mount the Browser Tabs as a Filesystem
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Dec 2020
    I am like your friend... basically tabs are a "working memory" that you don't want to store permanently in bookmarks. each window or sets of windows is typically a different topic that is being research on with a bunch of middle clicks to open tabs. I have so many open that I wrote a small webext for it that shows a page of all your tabs that you can click on to navigate to that tab with a click. just a nicer interface to see all the windows open and all the tabs. https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist

ranger

Posts with mentions or reviews of ranger. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-15.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tabist and ranger you can also consider the following projects:

brotab - Control your browser's tabs from the command line

lf - Terminal file manager

auto-tab-discard - Use native tab discarding method to automatically reduce memory usage of inactive tabs

nnn - nĀ³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

min - A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

vifm - Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.

winger - Window Manager: A Firefox web extension for switching windows and moving tabs between windows

joshuto - ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust

computer - šŸ“ ā—‹ ā—‹ ā—‹ dotfolders and dotfiles

lf - Fully Decentralized Fully Replicated Key/Value Store

go-xdr - An XDR (External Data Representation) to Go compiler

mc - Midnight Commander's repository