PT Run -list browser tabs for running processes

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

WIndow walker is absolutely fantastic - I don’t understand how i got away without it! That said, it would be even more useful if it could search for browser (Edge in my case) tabs! Clearly a browser tab is not a “window” but it serves the same purpose of providing a “context” and therefore it seems logical to be able to search by tab title.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

It appears that window-walker uses the process MainWindowTitle property and Edge only sets this for the active tab. …

11:12>Get-Process -name msedge | %{ "$($_.Id)"+ " --  $($_.MainWindowTitle)" }
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so this might need modifications to Edge or require a way to obtain information from some other part of the process structure.

From a UI perspective, I’d be quite happy to have to type “edge …search expr” or “chrome …search expr” to make this work. (in some ways it would be desirable since generally I have a lot of tabs and they are likely to be titled in ways that overlap with “real” windows.)

A clear and concise description of what you want to happen.

If I have Edge open with 3 tabs, “bbc news”, “stackoverflow.com”, “azure portal” I expect that when I type “edge bbc” in the window walker search box, I should be taken to the “bbc news” tab in Edge even if that is not the active tab.

[MartinLichtblau]

Most time is spend in web browsers (like Chromium) and work gets done inside tabs and not windows anymore. More relevant than a launcher is an integrated tool to smoothly navigate between views (windows and tabs alike) across applications by searching and switching between them, at best in most recently used (MRU) order, since that’s proven and intuitive.

This is a demo of a browser extension we developed to navigate between Chrome tabs. Lately we had the idea to link a tool like Switcheroo with Quick Tabs. But, now that Powertoys Runs/Launcher is moving in that direction we hope you will unify the two worlds into one view navigator.

I believe that an all encompassing view navigator will become the future Alt-Tab and we see that users already greatly appreciate the ability to navigate between Chromium tabs. So let’s unite!

[crutkas]

@gochev I don’t want to get into a world where the PT core code base has to be aware of every version for every browser and possibly non-public APIs to get access to things like this . If a browser releases a breaking change, if we go with our normal release cycle, it could be 2 months before a fix then is released. Which them means the browser has had multiple releases ahead of us as well.

100% a community member could do this style plugin, but will PowerToys itself, no for the reason above.