Rofi switch browser tabs

These scripts allow to use rofi to switch between tabs in Firefox and Google Chrome / Chromium.

Firefox

Dependencies

• Python
• jq

Installation

1. Install MozRepl
2. Press Alt and go to Tools->MozRepl->Activate on startup
3. Copy firefox-switch-tabs and mozrepl to a location which is in your path
4. Invoke rofi with rofi -modi 'firefox:firefox-switch-tabs' -show firefox

Chrome

Dependencies

• Nodejs
• jq

Installation

1. npm install -g chrome-remote-interface
2. sudo $EDITOR /usr/bin/chrome-remote-interface and change Line 190 from console.log(display(tabs)) to console.log(display(JSON.stringify(tabs))) (this step can be skipped in newer versions of chrome-remote-interface)
3. Copy chrome-switch-tabs (the file, not the folder) to a location which is in your path
4. Run google-chrome/chromium --remote-debugging-port=9222
5. Invoke rofi with rofi -modi 'chrome:chrome-switch-tabs' -show chrome

Known bugs

Firefox

Firefox does not load all opened tabs at startup. Unfortunately only loaded tabs can be shown.