BrowserSearch for macOS

Website: https://giridharmb.github.io/BrowserSearch_Docs/

Find any open browser tab in a keystroke.

Press ⌥Space (or your own shortcut), type a few letters of a tab's title or URL, use ↑ / ↓ to pick, and press ↩. BrowserSearch switches to that browser, raises the right window and selects the tab.

Features

• Tab archive: ⌘E closes tabs but keeps them, with page text, searchable from All Tabs; ↩ reopens. Optional auto-archive of stale tabs
• Saved sessions: ⌘S saves windows across browsers, ↩ in the Saved view restores them
• Global hotkey that works from any app, configurable in Settings
• Tabs grouped by browser and window; fuzzy search as you type (gh pull, initials like pr)
• Recent tabs: a live most-recently-used list across browsers, with jump-back and reopen
• Saved tab groups: ⌘T to tag tabs #work, #tag to filter, ⌘↩ reopens a whole group; automatic site groups
• Bulk actions: mark with ⇧↑↓ / ⌘-click / ⌘A, then close, tag, pin, move or copy as Markdown links
• Duplicate finder (⌘D), Stale view for tabs you haven't looked at in a week
• Pins (⌘P) and keywords (⌘K: type jira ↩ to jump), move to front window (⌘M), open in another browser (⌘O)
• Page text search (⌘F), previous-tab shortcut (⌃⌥⇥), Shortcuts/Siri actions
• Shortcut conflict warnings (macOS, other apps, launchers like Raycast/Alfred/ChatGPT)
• ⌘1–9 to jump, ⌘W to close a tab, ⌘C to copy its address, Esc to dismiss
• Searches Chrome, Safari, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi and Firefox at once; only browsers that are already open are searched
• Lives in the menu bar, optional launch at login
• Nothing leaves your Mac: no network access; recent tabs, the archive and sessions are stored locally and can be cleared

Requirements

macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

Permissions

Permission	Why	When
Automation → Google Chrome / Safari	Read tab titles and URLs, switch tabs	macOS asks the first time you search while that browser is open
Accessibility	Read and switch Firefox tabs (Firefox has no scripting support for tabs)	Only if you use Firefox: Settings → Browsers → Grant…

You can review or revoke these in System Settings → Privacy & Security.

Keyboard

Key	Action
⌥Space (default)	Open / close the search panel
↑ / ↓	Move the selection
↩	Switch to the selected tab
⌘1–9	Switch to result 1–9
⇥	All tabs · Recent · Tags · Stale
⇧↑↓ / ⌘A	Mark tabs / mark all
⌘T / ⌘K / ⌘P	Tag / keyword / pin
⌘D / ⌘M / ⌘O	Close duplicates / move to front window / open in another browser
⌘F / ⌘/	Search page text / show every key
⌃⌥⇥	Previous tab, from anywhere
⌘W / ⌘C	Close tab / copy its address
Esc	Close

Known limitations

• Firefox tabs are matched by title only (no URL).
• Other Chromium browsers (Brave, Edge, Arc) are not supported yet.