Tab Duplicator, A Safari 5 Extension

Posted by Paul Kehrer on June 14, 2010 Leave a comment (18) Go to comments

Tab Duplicator adds a contextual menu item as well as a toolbar icon¹ that will duplicate your active tab. By default it creates a new tab in the background, but it can be configured to make them foreground as well. You can also select tab positioning (first, last, before active tab, after active tab).

To install:

Download the signed extension and double click to install²
Right click and choose “Duplicate Tab”.

You can view the source on GitHub as well! If you have suggestions for improvements let me know! Bug reports should be directed to the issues page.

Changes in 1.2

Added toolbar icon in addition to contextual menu. If you don’t want it you can hold command and click and drag it off to remove.
You can now choose where to position your duplicated tabs. Choices are after current tab (default), before current tab, beginning, or end.
Optimized code. No more injected script.
Validation of events (disables button/contextual menu item if no URL is loaded)

Thanks to Brian Kim for the icon!

You can hold command and drag the toolbar item off the toolbar if you don’t want to use it! ↩
If you haven’t enabled extensions in Safari then learn how. ↩

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18 Comments.

banks June 14, 2010 at 2:17 pm

doesn’t work
Kenjo June 14, 2010 at 2:18 pm

Would be nice if it could be localized, I can translate to Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and German
banks June 14, 2010 at 2:20 pm

Sorry, it does work. This comment was intended for other extension.
Paul Kehrer June 14, 2010 at 3:33 pm

Thank you for the offer Kenjo. I’ll have to look into the best way to do i18n for these extensions. I’ll contact you via email about the strings that need translation.
Tilo June 14, 2010 at 3:57 pm

Hello, i had built a tab duplicator for myself too. another feature i have is the possibility to open the new tab right next to the source tab or at the end of all tabs. maybe a future feature for your one.
Paul Kehrer June 14, 2010 at 7:20 pm

Thanks for the suggestions Tilo. I’ll add it to my list for the next release!
Rainer June 15, 2010 at 2:47 am

I think it would also be nice to have a toolbar button to clone tabs.
Kanab June 15, 2010 at 9:09 am

Hi, I can translate to Czech and Slovak
Michael June 15, 2010 at 9:33 am

Hi — nice extension. Would it be possible to have it work via the contextual menu for the tab itself, as well as the page?

Thank you!

—Michael
Tamriel June 15, 2010 at 2:34 pm

In my opinion the best would be to “double click on tab” to duplicate it.
theFreelanceDesigner June 16, 2010 at 8:21 pm

Very nice update, Paul. Love the ability to open the new tab right next to the current one. I’m going to submit a bug report to Issues as “to the left of active tab” isn’t working right.
Paul Kehrer June 16, 2010 at 8:51 pm

Thanks for the report. Fixed in 1.2.1
pierr0ur June 19, 2010 at 10:53 pm

The right click option on windows isn’t present, does only show a button on the toolbar (
Rainer June 22, 2010 at 3:16 am

Thanks for the toolbar button. I really love this extension now and it will be used a lot.

One of my favorite extensions!
Andrew July 16, 2010 at 5:34 am

Great extension, Thanks! I would vote for this working by double clicking on the tab, and having the “Duplicate Tab” option on the contextual menu of the tab itself.

Great Work

Andrew
Alfred August 13, 2010 at 4:08 pm

Why do you need this extension when you could just hit CMD+Return, or CMD+SHIFT+Return inside the URL bar?

RTFM
Lyle August 19, 2010 at 12:06 pm

It works, but doesn’t seem to duplicate the tab’s history, as Chrome and extensions for Firefox do.