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Firefox tabs not shown in processes
Maybe it is just me, but so far Firefox (and Tor) tabs also appeared among the running processes, so I could search for them and switch to them as it is the case with any Chromium-based browser. However, it does not work anymore, Fluent Search can only see the Firefox tab which is open, but nothing more. The feature is still flawless with Chrome, Edge & co.
As it can be seen on the attached screenshot, only the active tab is present among the search results, the other with similar name is not.
I'm on Windows 10 [20H2], Fluent Search version 0.9.88.9989, Firefox 93.0.
Adding a potentially relevant observation:
I find the same thing occurs as you describe...in Process it won't list the tabs. However, I can search for them using keywords, and it will find non-focused tabs that way.
However, when I use my search in focused process hotkey (ctrl+space for me) and then enter the 'tab' search tag it will list all open tabs in that Firefox process for me.
Thanks for your observation. I'm not sure if I interpret your solution correctly, but I cannot reproduce it in neither Firefox nor Tor. See the screenshots below:
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Here, try enabling this setting.
Then go to your Firefox window and hit the In-App Search key combo (for me, Ctrl+Space). It should show up similarly to the bottom screen grab showing "Search in [Firefox icon]" at the right of the search field. Type "tab" and hit the Tab key to enable the Tab search tag. It might then show a list of your open tabs.
I don't mean to say there isn't a bug or issue as you describe, just that this is perhaps an alternate route to what you want that may give devs some added info re: where the bug resides.
I agree with you - in Process search, for me, it does not show the other tabs.
One more observation:
All Firefox tabs do show for me in the search results pane when starting with the general FS hotkey (ctrl+alt) search, rather than in-app search hotkey, then adding the "tab" search tag and focusing the Firefox process. They do not show in the left pane/list of search results.
Thanks for all the valuable observations. I would also add that with a Firefox that is hardened (Arkenfox, Librewolf, Tor), this does not seem to work either (although it worked for me flawlessly in the past). With barebone Firefox, it works randomly. Sometimes I can reproduce what you wrote, sometimes I can’t, for Firefox does not even show up (see the screenshot below).
@pukkancsanyo Sorry for delay in reply here, can you please check if it works for you in older version of Fluent Search? You can download a portable version here; it will not mess with your current installation - https://install.appcenter.ms/users/adirh3-gmail.com/apps/fluent-search/distribution_groups/portable I tried checking if I can reproduce it in older version, but for me I see this issue in either 0.9.88 or 0.9.89 with the latest FireFox.
Thanks a lot for your reply. I tried as suggested, downloading 0.9.87.0. This version seems to work impeccably with the latest Firefox and Tor; however, it does not show up anything with any other hardened Firefox or Librewolf. Oddly, if I change back from a hardened portable profile to the default one with the default user.js, Fluent Search appears to stay perplexed, and can’t see the processes.
Thanks a lot for your reply. I tried as suggested, downloading 0.9.87.0. This version seems to work impeccably with the latest Firefox and Tor; however, it does not show up anything with any other hardened Firefox or Librewolf. Oddly, if I change back from a hardened portable profile to the default one with the default user.js, Fluent Search appears to stay perplexed, and can’t see the processes.
Thanks for testing! Lets see if I understand - Fluent Search 0.9.87 (Btw why not 88?) - can find Tabs in FireFox Fluent Search 0.9.89 - can find only the focused tab in FireFox Not sure I understand the part about the portable profile, you mean FireFox profile? Any chance you disabled any accessibility setting in FireFox? Fluent Search uses Windows' accessibility to read UI elements
Hi, You understood and summed it up correctly. It also seems to work with 88, but I failed to mention it because I did not test it so extensively.
As for the second part, yes, in Firefox portable you can have multiple profiles (e. g., a vanilla and a hardened one), and you can switch between them. However, after using the hardened one, Fluent Search does not appear to work with the vanilla one either.
Thanks for the tip with accessibility features; I have tried to tweak them but without any notable success so far.
@pukkancsanyo I apologies for not getting back to you for such a long time, it's been a bit of a mess with all the GitHub issues. I believe this issue should've been fixed in 0.9.90.x (current stable version), I checked with FF portable and Store version and couldn't repro it. LibreWolf and other FF forks are probably disabling accessibility support for some reason, I tried installing it and Windows narrator couldn't read anything, so there is nothing for FS to work with unfortunately.
Would appreciate if you can let me know if it's fixed for you. Thanks!
Hi, I'm sorry for being late with the feedback, the summer was a bit busy. I tested the new stable, and it seems to work now with FF. Tor also appears to work out of box most of the times with some occasional hiccups I cannot explain (sometimes searching for tabs does not switch to the specific tab itself but to the last opened tab of the browser). Librewolf also seems to work now with some accessibility tweaking in about:config. All in all, it's a pleasing experience to use it, thanks for the tips and everything that you've done in this regard. If I found something later on with more extensive testing, I'll let you know, but so far so good.
Cheers
@pukkancsanyo all good, thanks a lot for testing! Tabs not triggering should be fixed in next Stable version. I will be closing this for now, feel free to reopen if you encounter the issue again.