AutoPinTab extension

Firefox extension that automatically pins new tabs based on their URL.

To decide the tabs to automatically pin, user must define a set of patterns.
A pattern could be a plain text URL (like http://www.google.com) or a JavaScript regular expression pattern like ^https?//www\.google\.com/.

Installation

Official (signed) AutoPinTab releases must be installed through Firefox Addons website.

Development releases are unsigned so they require some manual steps to be loaded on Firefox standard edition:

• download master branch in a ZIP archive, then extract it in a folder of your choice OR clone the whole GIT repository
• open about:debugging on Firefox
• click "Load Temporary Add-on" button and select manifest.json from extracted/cloned source files

To avoid these steps you can install Firefox Developer edition (it can be installed side-by-side with standard edition).

NOTE: the unsigned AutoPinTab release will be loaded temporarily, so it must be reloaded each time you restart the browser.

Usage

Open a tab you want to be automatically pinned, right-click on its content and select the new AutoPinTab context menu item.

This menu contains items to quickly add current URL to your AutoPinTab patterns.

Now reload the tab (or open a new one) and check if it gets pinned automatically.

Licensing

AutoPinTab is open source software, licensed under GPLv3.
Source code is available here: https://github.com/coolsoft-ita/autopintab.git

If you like it, feel free to support its development: visit its homepage and click on Donate.

Credits

• jQuery library
  Great multipurpose JS library
• Flat icons P2 by Solidicons
  Extension icon

Changelog

v.1.3.2 - 2021-11-19

• Fixed error on pattern loading.

v.1.3.1 - 2021-11-19

• Reorder tab feature (added in 1.3.0) can now be enabled/disabled in options page (and it's disabled by default).

v.1.3.0 - 2021-06-21

• Pattern order now affects tab pin order: the higher is the pattern (in pattern list), the leftmost will be the pinned tab.
• New feature to reorder patterns in options page by dragging them.

v.1.2.1 - 2020-05-12

• Import not working in Firefox-ESR (v.68.x).
• Minimum Firefox version required increased to 68.

v.1.2.0 - 2020-03-29

• Added new feature to Import/Export settings.

v.1.1.1 - 2019-11-28

• Fixed Options page colors when Firefox Dark mode is enabled.

v.1.1.0 - 2018-08-23

• Options dialog now show patterns in a table.
• Fixed context menu items not always updating.

v.1.0.1 - 2017-07-19

• Fixed CSS that caused options dialog checkboxes to disappear.

v.1.0.0 - 2016-11-30

• First release.