Browser tabs

Type tab (or tabs), a space, and part of a title, a host or a URL. Every open tab in every running browser is listed, with the browser’s icon and the site on the second line. Return switches to the tab and brings its window forward. ⌘ ⏎ copies the link. ⌘ K offers Close Tab and Open Link in Default Browser.

Which browsers

Safari, Chrome, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Chromium, Opera and Arc. Firefox has no scripting interface on macOS and cannot be read; its bookmarks still work through Browser bookmarks.

Only browsers that are already running are asked, so opening the list never launches one.

Permission

Each browser asks once whether Cleat may control it, under System Settings › Privacy & Security › Automation. A browser you refuse is named in the status line while the others still list. If you change your mind, turn it on there; Cleat does not ask twice.

How it reads them

Two requests per browser, however many tabs are open: one for every title, one for every address. The result is cached for a few seconds while you type, so filtering costs nothing, and re-read when you come back to the list.

Privacy mode

With privacy mode on, rows show the browser name only. Switching and closing still work.

From elsewhere

cleat://tabs?q=github opens the list filtered, for a Shortcut or a Stream Deck key. The Browser Tabs row in the palette can take a hotkey from ⌘K like anything else.

Housekeeping rows

Four rows act on the browser in front, or the first one running: Close Other Tabs (every tab but the current one in the front window), Duplicate Tab, New Private Window (Incognito in the Chromium family, Private in Safari through its File menu, and in Arc) and Add to Reading List (Safari only). Type close tabs, duplicate tab, private window or reading list. They need the Automation permission for that browser, like the tab switcher.

History

hist and a word searches pages you visited, newest first, across Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc, Vivaldi, Chromium and Opera, whose history files Cleat copies and reads as they are. Safari keeps its history behind Full Disk Access; without it the list says so and offers the Privacy pane, with it Safari joins the list. Return opens the page in the browser it came from, ⌘⏎ copies the link. bh and visited are the other keywords.