The Tabs Outliner Addon for Firefox

This addon aims to implement for Firefox the feature provided by the TabsOutliner plugin in Chromium, but in an Opensource License.

Here is a screenshot of what it looks like at the time of the last major change in this repository:

N.B.: as the author of Chrome's Tabs Outliner plugin, Vladyslav Volovyk, asked me to remove any content containing his crafted materials, the repository is now entirely free of materials under restrictive copyright. The picture above containing the previous version of the code using one of his images, the image shown is now striked out to avoid any conflict.

For the time being it is only a work in progress. That plugin is aimed to be compatible with Firefox 18+, and uses the jetpack/addon API.

TODO

[x] refresh the tree on every window and tabs events (new, close, ready, refresh, tab movement...), (in v0.4)
[#] select, open/close, destroy support from the tabs outliner panel, (will be v0.5)
[ ] drag and drop support for the tabs in the tree, (should be v0.6)
[ ] create new level of tree when opening tabs from a tab and support groups of windows, (should be v0.7)
[ ] session state saving support, (might be v0.8)
[ ] sidebar integration, (may be v0.9)
[ ] better UI style, (may be v0.10)
[ ] no bugs, no glitches (v1.0)

If you want a taboutliner for firefox, don't hesitate to help me implement that plugin and send patches!

How it works

As of version v0.4, the algorithm of the addon is far from being good. At each event, it (re)builds a two level tree of all opened windows and tabs, and (re)generates the DOM tree in the tabsoutliner tab. Though, it is not time and space efficient, the result is still (astonishly) fast.

For v0.7, the algorithmic model might have to be rewritten to support a n-level tree representing the tabs opened while browsing, and also the creation of groups of windows.

How to test it and hack

To test:

	$ npm install jpm --global
	$ cd FFTabsOutline (where package.json resides)
	$ jpm run

Code tree

.
|-- README.md ............  this file
|-- data .................  data resources included with the addon
|   |-- images ...........  images included
|   |   `-- favicon.ico ..  a logo I have drawn and rendered using gimp, 
|   |                           beautiful, isn't it ? :-)
|   |-- panel.html .......  the tabs outliner panel base DOM
|   |-- screen.css .......  the tabs outliner panel's style
|   `-- tree .............  the 'tree' JS module used to render the window/tabs tree
|-- doc ..................  documentation folder: to be written ;-)
|   `-- main.md
|-- lib ..................  directory containing all the JS code
|   |-- main.js ..........  entry point for the javascript module
|   |-- tools.js .........  simple utils for object introspection, useful to dig through the APIs
|   `-- tree.js ..........  implementation of a N-Tree in javascript
|-- package.json .........  package specification
`-- test .................  tests: to be written
    `-- test-main.js .....  bunch of tests for the tree.js file, that is failing

License

The tree script is jquery-treeview under the MIT and GPL licences. It will be certainly be replaced for v0.6 to have a more updated tree plugin, with enhanced drag'n drop support.

Tabs Outliner Addon for Firefox
Copyright (C)2013, Bernard `Guyzmo` Pratz <tabsoutliner at m0g dot net>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
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