bebop

bebop is a WebExtensions that makes your browsing groovy.

bebop is available on Firefox Add-ons and Chrome web store

Enjoy and swing your browsing!

About

bebop is a WebExtensions that offers command line interface like emacs helm for browsing.

• bebop retrieves candidates from various sources such as tabs, history, bookmark, etc.
• you can narrows down them with a pattern.
• bebop provides actions on candidates such as open url, activate tab, remove bookmark, etc.
• you can choose a candidate and execute an action on it.
  • you can also marks multiple candidates to execute chosen action on this set of candidates.
  • ex: close multiple tabs at once.

Usage

1. Show popup

Click icon on toolbar or Ctrl+Comma ... show popup that has command input

On Vivaldi, _execute_browser_action keyboard shortcut doesn't work. So, bebop offers two alternatives to it.

command name	description
toggle_popup_window	show popup as a window
toggle_content_popup	show popup in a content document

To use these alternatives, you need to set shortcut key. See Customize shortcut.

NOTE: toggle_content_popup doesn't work completely.

ex:

• it doesn't work in some pages
• it can't focus automatically from browser ui.

2. Narrow down candidates

Input a query to narrow down the candidates.

NOTE: On Windows, you need to press a tab-key to focus to a query input

type	shorthand	description
search		open new tab with google search
link	l	click a link in current page
tab	t	active selected tab
history	h	open a history
bookmark	b	open a bookmark
session	s	restore a session
command	c	execute a command

• :type narrows down to the candidates whose type is the specified type
  • x (shorthand letter) also narrows down to the candidates whose shorthand is the specified type
• ex.
  • 阿部寛 narrows down to the all candidates searched with 阿部寛
  • :link or l narrow down to link candidates
  • :link 阿部寛 or l 阿部寛 narrow down to link candidates searched with 阿部寛

You can use these key-bindings in command input:

key-binding	command
C-f	forward-char
C-b	backward-char
C-a	beginning-of-line
C-e	end-of-line
C-h	delete-backward-char
C-k	kill-line
C-g	quit

3. Select the candidates

You can change the selected candidate with shortcut keys:

key-binding	command
tab	next-candidate
S-tab	previous-candidate
C-n (only mac)	next-candidate
C-p	previous-candidate
C-j (opt-in)	next-candidate
C-k (opt-in)	previous-candidate
C-SPC	mark-candidate

C-j, C-k are opt-in key-bindings. You can enable them from options page.

You can mark multiple candidates with C-SPC. Some action can handle multiple candidates. For example, close-tab command closes multiple tabs.

4. Execute action

A candidate can be executed by various actions. You can execute default action by pressing return or click a candidate. You can also execute another action by these shortcuts.

key-binding	action
return	runs the first action
S-return	runs the second action
C-i	lists available actions

You can change shortcut key from Ctrl+Comma. See Customize shortcut

Customize

Options page

• open-options command opens options page
• Firefox: Add-ons -> Extensions -> Preferences of bebop
• Chrome: Window -> Extensions -> Options of bebop

Change shortcut key

Chromium based browser: Extensions page

1. Open chrome://extensions/
2. Click Keyboard shortcuts at thxe bottom of the page
3. Set Activate the extension as your favorite shortcut key
   • Vivaldi user should use toggle_popup_window and change In vivaldi to Global.

Firefox: Change shortcut key with your own private addon

You can change the shourcut key if you build and upload the addon as your own private addon.

1. Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/kumabook/bebop.git

2. Edit manifest.json:

• Edit commands._execute_browser_action.suggested_key with your favorite shortcut key.
• Edit applications.gecko.id with your id

3. Signup developer hub
4. Get api key and api secret and set them to environment variables:

export NODE_ENV=production
export API_KEY=user:00000000:000
export API_SECRET=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

5. Build and upload package as your private addon:

npm run sign

Supported browsers

• Firefox
• Chrome
• Vivaldi
• (Opera)