What is this ?

This project provides browser tab search provider for GNOME

Screenshot

Installation

Installl all 3 components for tab search to work

1. Browser extension
2. Shell extension
3. Host connector

Browser extension

Shell extension

Or from source

cd shellextension
yarn
yarn build
yarn extension:install

Host connector

For Fedora Linux

Install from copr

sudo dnf copr enable harshadgavali/searchproviders
sudo dnf install tabsearchproviderconnector

For Manjaro, Arch Linux and derivatives

Install tabsearchproviderconnector from AUR (packaged by @bartlibert).

For other distributions

Install from releases

• Download zip of latest release from here

# first verify what files zip has
zip -sf gnome-tabsearchprovider-connector.connector-*.zip
# output should have following files
# - etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts/com.github.harshadgavali.tabsearchproviderconnector.json
# - usr/bin/com.github.harshadgavali.tabsearchproviderconnector
# - usr/lib64/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/com.github.harshadgavali.tabsearchproviderconnector.json

sudo unzip -o -d / gnome-tabsearchprovider-connector.connector-*.zip

# create link for file from lib64 to lib
sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib{64,}/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/com.github.harshadgavali.tabsearchproviderconnector.json

Install from git

Dependencies: meson, ninja, cargo, rust

cd connector
meson --prefix=/usr build
ninja -C build install

# create link for file from lib64 to lib
sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib{64,}/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/com.github.harshadgavali.tabsearchproviderconnector.json

If you installed browser addons in different way

• Then update manifest in following locations with ids of browser addons
  • /etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts/
  • /usr/lib64/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/

After installation

• Open browser
• Start searching with Super key
  • Browser tabs(except active tabs) will appear in search results