Cruise - A Fuzzy Finder for Tabs on Chromium-Based Browsers

Introduction

Cruise is a browser extension that lets you quickly fuzzy-find open tabs in any Chromium-based browser. It helps you efficiently navigate through your tabs using keyboard shortcuts, inspired by Telescope from Neovim.

Features

• Quick Tab navigation
• Access to Tab, Bookmarks, History and Frequent sites all from a single interface
• Quick web searches
• Customizable themes
• tab switch to the most previous tab with alt - u ( in the marks branch currently )

Shortcuts

Cruise provides several keyboard shortcuts to make navigation faster and more efficient:

• Open Cruise Dialog: Alt + y
  Open Cruise to interact with its features.

• Active Tab Mode: Alt + t
  Switch to and search through active tabs. If the tab is not in your current window, Cruise will bring the relevant window into focus.

• History Mode: Alt + h
  Search through your browser's last 100 visited sites and navigate to a specific URL.

• Bookmark Mode: Alt + b
  Search your saved bookmarks and quickly navigate to them.

• Frequent Mode: Alt + f
  Search your most frequently visited websites.

• Force Search: Shift + Enter
  Search the web with your query, regardless of the current mode or highlighted option.

• Change Theme: /c
  Type /c in the input field to change the appearance of Cruise by selecting from available themes.

• Help (Man Pages): /h
  Type /h to bring up the Cruise manual pages for help and tips.

Usage

1. Switching Between Modes:

Use Alt + Y to open the Cruise dialog and just type the tab you want to switch too and hit enter, you can also navigate via the arrow keys.

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2. Switching Between Modes:

Use Alt + <key> to switch between modes when the Cruise dialog is open:

• T - Tabs
• H - History
• B - Bookmarks
• F - Most Frequent Sites

Click on any option shown or hit Enter to go the the highlighted option
The Mode is indicated by a letter the the input bar to the left

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3. Command Mode Usage:

Use / to get into command mode

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3. Additional Features:

• Use Shift + Enter to search your query on the web, regardless of the mode you're in or the option you currently have selected.
• Cruise automatically adjusts its theme based on your browser's theme to improve readability.

Dark Mode

Light Mode

Installation

Since I haven't published it on the Chrome Web Store yet (as there are a few more features I would like to add), the only way to use it right now is by cloning the repo and manually adding it to your extensions.

1. Clone or download the repository:

git clone https://github.com/tren03/cruise.git

3. Open your browser and navigate to chrome://extensions/.
4. Enable Developer mode (toggle on the top right).
5. Click Load unpacked and select the directory where you cloned the repository.
6. The extension is now loaded and ready to use.