Komodo TabSwitcher extension

I finally had a "new tech" adventure last week - I dabbled in Mozilla extensions for the first time.

I've been using ActiveState's Komodo Edit as my primary editor for PHP, Python, and JavaScript for the last few years. One of the extensions I always used was the TabSwitcher. I've found that I depend on that extension even more heavily now that I'm with deviantART simply because of the size of our code-base. While the Fast Open extension is great and has similar functionality, it simply doesn't fill the same role for me. Our code-base has thousands of file, many of which have similar names, which results in Fast Open slowing down and giving me too many results to be useful. Because TabSwitcher operates on a much smaller data set, it's much better for the common case where I have 20 or 30 tabs open and am actively switching back and forth between 8 or 10 of them.

The only problem is that TabSwitcher isn't compatible with Komodo 7. That's actually part of the reason I hadn't bothered to upgrade Komodo on my work computer yet. So I decided to remedy that by porting it to Komodo 7. While I was at it, I added a couple of small enhancements, such as updating the bookmark list when a bookmark is added.

You can download the extension here:
tabswitcher-1.0.0-ko.xpi
If you want to look at the source, it's in my Mercurial repository here:
http://hg.skepticats.com/tabswitcher/

This was my first exposure to XUL or Mozilla add-ons, so hopefully everything will work the way it should. I haven't seen any problems so far, at least.

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