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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 780835
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Closed: Aug 31
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OS: Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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No way to find an existing tab

Reported by trusktr@gmail.com, Aug 27

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open many tabs, so many that you may lose track of where a tab is
2. Wish to go back to that tab
3. Open a new tab and start typing but notice there's no match that takes you to an existing tab.

What is the expected behavior?
It'd be great to have a feature like Firefox's where if you open an new tab and search for a website, but you already have that website open in another tab, you can just go straight to that tab.

What went wrong?
Doesn't exist in Chrome.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 68.0.3440.106  Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.13.4
Flash Version: 

This would make it super easy to navigate between tabs. It is soooooooooo easy in Firefox.

What ends up happening in Chrome is sometimes I lose or forget about a tab, then instead of going to that one I make a new one (for example gmail.com) then I have duplicates.

In firefox we get the option to switch to the existing tab or to make a new one (sometimes you explicitly want a new tab).

This would be GREAT!
 
For example, I currently know I have documentation open for some library, but I don't know where, and so I open a new tab, and type the library name, and I'd like to go there. For now I'll just rummage through my tabs until I find it, or just make a new one.

It gets worst when you have multiple desktop spaces in macOS, then you restart Chrome, and now all your windows are all on the same desktop, and it is difficult to navigate.

Just let me easily switch to an existing tab by fuzzy finding it. +1 :)
Labels: Needs-Triage-M68
Cc: viswa.karala@chromium.org
Labels: -Type-Bug Triaged-ET Target-70 M-70 FoundIn-70 Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Thanks for filing the issue!

As per Comment#0 excepted behaviour, the issue seems to be Feature request, hence marking it as Untriage.

Thanks!
Cc: k...@chromium.org
Thanks for the feature request. This festure is already in development. Please see issue 780835. 
Mergedinto: 780835
Status: Duplicate (was: Untriaged)

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