Tab Duplicator, A Safari 5 Extension
On June 14, 2010 by Paul Kehrer With 26 Comments
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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:
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!
doesn’t work
Would be nice if it could be localized, I can translate to Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and German
Sorry, it does work. This comment was intended for other extension.
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.
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.
Thanks for the suggestions Tilo. I’ll add it to my list for the next release!
I think it would also be nice to have a toolbar button to clone tabs.
Hi, I can translate to Czech and Slovak
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
In my opinion the best would be to “double click on tab” to duplicate it.
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.
Thanks for the report. Fixed in 1.2.1
[...] Per Rechtsklick: Tab Duplicator [...]
The right click option on windows isn’t present, does only show a button on the toolbar
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Thanks for the toolbar button. I really love this extension now and it will be used a lot.
One of my favorite extensions!
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
Why do you need this extension when you could just hit CMD+Return, or CMD+SHIFT+Return inside the URL bar?
RTFM
It works, but doesn’t seem to duplicate the tab’s history, as Chrome and extensions for Firefox do.
[...] nice as Firebug but still handy and likely to evolve. BetterSource pretty much completely rocks. Duplicate Tab Button is a handy way to keep your place when editing. Flickr breaks ExifExt unfortunately. [...]
[...] Tab Duplicator – Extension pro duplikaci tabů. Občas se hodí. [...]
Works nicely, but for me it is missing one crucial feature. It does not duplicate the history for the tab… something I’ve been very use to on Firefox.
Any chance you’ll be adding this feature?
I also think the features suggested by Andrew and worthy of attention. 1) Include in Tab context menu, 2) allow for double clicking the tab to duplicate.
Great extension otherwise. Thanks for your hard work creating it. Much appreciated.
Jonathan
I’d like to…third the request for the duplicate to include the tab history (I really need this feature).
Just in case you were counting request!
I’d like to…third the request for the duplicate to include the tab history (I really need this feature).
Just in case you were counting request!
I would also like to see the contextual menu item moved to the menu you get when you right-click on the tabs themselves. It makes little sense for me to get the ‘Duplicate Tab’ option when right-clicking somewhere on the page.
Also, I would like to fourth the request for the history to be copied to the duplicated tab.
Also looking for history to be duplicated. There was some browser that I used to use that had that feature – probably at the window level (before tabs). You could duplicate the window and it would retain the history from the original window. Very useful when you are doing research on the iNet – think about going down a path and wanting to easily retain that path, but also back up a few steps and try another path… and another and another, etc. each with their own \break\ points or \branching\ points in your search tree.
Thanks for listening.
I also agree with Bengt77′s request for the contextual menu item to be moves to the menu you get when you click on the tabs (like it is with Chrome and Firefox).
As an aside, if you or anyone else would create or knows of someone who has created a “Pin Tab” option like you can get with Firefox that would be fantastic!