Clutter Free – Dark mode in tab search (Supporters only)

December 25, 2018 ~ Adi

Dark theme – tab search

Dark theme – switch from actions

Light theme – tab search

If you are like me – dark theme system wide, and brightness and contrast turned low – then you may like this update.

A dark theme is now available in the tab search window. It applies consistently across all three tabs – search, duplicates and actions. The theme may be chosen on the options page, or quickly switched from the actions tab.

The dark theme is only available to supporters.

Other updates

The direct switch indicator marks links that are already open in another tab. The indicator icon now takes a slightly darker shade on lighter pages, and a lighter shade on pages with dark backgrounds.
Links in the footer – feedback, other apps, update notes – are gently highlighted when hovered.
Bug fix – ‘Ignore hash’ setting had stopped working after the last update
Potential bug fix – Updated some code to ensure multiple tab search windows do not open

That’s all, folks!

Please share your feedback, including suggestions and any bugs you find using this link.

Do you like Clutter Free? Show the value it brings by joining to become a supporter.

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Clutter Free – List duplicate tabs, and duplicate indicator

December 11, 2018 ~ Adi ~ 1 Comment

Duplicate tabs indicator

A small red dot appears on the Clutter Free button when there are duplicate tabs open¹.

Additional menu options when duplicates tabs are open

Additional popup actions when duplicates tabs are open

The dot indicates that there are two extra menu options available in the popup, and in the context menu (right-clicking) of the Clutter Free button.

Duplicate tabs list

The duplicate tabs list is currently only available to supporters. It will be available to all users from mid-January 2019.

See a list of duplicate tabs when the red duplicate indicator dot is on. This list may be opened from the duplicate tabs notification, Clutter Free button context menu, or the Clutter Free popup actions.

We may close individual tabs from the list by clicking the ‘×‘ button, or we may close all duplicates using the ‘Close all duplicate tabs‘ action on top. Hovering on the ‘Close all duplicate tabs’ action highlights the tabs that will be closed. Original tabs are marked with a tab layer icon on the left. Pinned tabs are also identified with a pin.

Keyboard actions available in the duplicate tabs list:

‘Up‘/’Down‘: Select previous/next tab in the list
‘Enter‘: Focus selected tab in the browser
‘Delete‘: Close selected tab
‘Esc‘: Clear selection
‘F1‘/’?‘: Show available keyboard shortcuts

Other updates

When more than one on-page context menus are available, they are grouped under a ‘Clutter Free’ menu – parent menu text shortened to just the extension name
Removed donation links from the extension
Removed some bugs

That’s all, folks!

Please share your feedback, including suggestions and any bugs you find using this link.

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Support Clutter Free – Join to support continued development

December 5, 2018December 12, 2018 ~ Adi ~ 1 Comment

Do you like Clutter Free? Show its value by joining to become a supporter.

Becoming a supporter helps fund continued maintenance and development of the extension. It also helps me determine if there is a genuine value being delivered by Clutter Free, and direct focus on requests from supporting users.

There are three levels of supporter memberships available:

1. Supporter ($1.49 / £0.99 / €0.99 – a month)
2. Promoter ($2.99 / £2.99 / €2.99 – a month)
3. Patron ($7.99 / £5.99 / €6.99 – a month)

Please pick a supporter level that reflects both your ability to pay, and how useful you find Clutter Free.

There are no supporter-only features at the moment. However, some of the upcoming features will launch as supporter-first or supporter only.

All supporter features will be available across all supporter levels – no discrimination based on ability to support. All current features (end of November 2018) will always remain free and available to all users.

Some upcoming features:

Duplicate tab lists – See all open duplicate tabs in a popup window (Update: now available)
- Choose which duplicates to close, or
- Let Clutter Free close all duplicates
Duplicate indicator – extension icon shows a red dot when duplicate tabs are present (disabled state)
Disappear – clean up forgotten tabs

Most of these will launch for supporters first, and may later be rolled out to all users.

Please share your feedback, including suggestions and any bugs you find using this link.

That’s all, folks!

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Clutter Free – In-tab notifications, better notification controls, and reopen duplicate tab

November 22, 2018November 23, 2018 ~ Adi

Notifications upgrades

New notification style

ClutterFree in-page notification (dark theme)

ClutterFree in-page notification (light theme)

The new notification style shows notifications inside the browser. They appear in the bottom right of the webpages, and make access to notification actions easily available.

Some other features:

Notifications auto-dismiss after a short delay,
- Informational notifications (e.g. URL whitelisted) disappear quickly — 15/30s
- Actionable notifications (e.g. Duplicate closed in background) stay longer — 60s
Notifications don’t clutter the desktop notification center, nor trigger the notification sound, and
Notifications have pertinent action buttons directly accessible across all OSes.

All notifications may be dismissed directly by using the staggered lines (☰) icon on top left of the notifications.

Notification settings are directly accessible from the gear icon (⚙) on top right of the notifications

Notification settings

Notification settings have been updated to provide finer control over notifications.

Screenshot 2018-11-22 at 13.01.25 — Updated notification settings

Define notification style to use for each kind of notification – the new ClutterFree style, or the default Chrome notifications. Individual notifications may also be switched off individually.

Theme for the ClutterFree notifications – dark or light – may also be switched from settings.

New: Notify when a duplicate tab, to be opened in the background is prevented.

When a new duplicate tab is opened in the background – by using ‘Open in new tab’ action or Ctrl/Cmd-click – ClutterFree will close the tab and notify on the screen.

The two actions on this notification allow to switch to the previously open tab, or force open the duplicate (for when you really want a duplicate).

This notification is only available as an in-browser notification.

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Clutter Free – v. 2018.0822.5.10

August 22, 2018 ~ Adi

Setting: Ignore hash/fragments in URLs

Added an option to ignore hash/fragment sections in URLs when comparing for duplicates.

Enable this functionality in Options ⇒ Advanced Settings ⇒ Ignore Hash. It is disabled by default, and not recommended.

When enabled, two tabs with URLs: ‘c306.net/apps‘ and ‘c306.net/apps/#clutterfreeCard‘ will be considered duplicates and one of them closed. This is the expected behaviour if the fragment points to a section in the same page. However, in many modern web apps, the fragment may point to a different page that you may want to open separately. In this scenario, the ignore hash setting will wrongly close the second tab as duplicate.

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Clutter Free – Google Analytics removed

May 31, 2018June 1, 2018 ~ Adi

ver. 2018.0531.5.9

Google Analytics completely removed

Clutter Free used Google Analytics to track which settings and functions were being used – to help focus developer attention on what was being used.

I have now completely removed all analytics tracking from the extension. The extension now does not use any network requests, ensuring any user data stays on the computer.

This also means that I shall have no insight into features that are popular, or broken. So, please share your views using the feedback link in the extension (or by going here).
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Introducing: Quick tab search from address bar

March 3, 2018 ~ Adi ~ 1 Comment

Tab search from the address bar

Just type ‘cf‘ followed by space (or tab), and type in your search term.

The search results are updated as you type. Selecting a suggestion in the list switches to that tab.

Details

Quick tab search looks for keywords in open URLs, and website titles, across all open windows
Search results list pinned tabs at the top, and newer tabs before older tabs
Clutter Free can start a Google search for the search keywords, if no matching open tabs are found

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Clutter Free – v. 2017.615.4.15

June 15, 2017 ~ Adi

A bug fix and a minor update:

Bug fix: Duplicate tabs were not being closed if ‘don’t move original tab’ was selected in options. Fixed.
Update: On installation, and on startup, Clutter Free checks for any duplicate tabs that were already open. Notification is displayed, with a button to close duplicates, if any are found.

Get Clutter Free on the Chrome Web Store.