Let Wooshy treat different targets differently (Web browser)

[hasantahir]

Wooshy has settings to change the Scope of the search. However, on webpages, the tabs and bookmarks are also searched to find a given target. It would be great if we can ignore the Tabs, bookmarks etc. and focus on the web pages.

Thanks

[godbout]

i've worked on this in the past few days, and it's not gonna be straightforward. removing the tabs in themselves is not gonna be enough, as sometimes there's are other UI Elements within the tabs. also, the structure of how the AX Tree is built depends on each web browser. so this will have to be custom for each web browser, and rather than being able to filter out the tabs, the whole structure will have to be parsed.

so 1. heavy work 2. for each existing web browser.
it's gonna take more time than expected.

[godbout]

It would be great if we can ignore the Tabs, bookmarks etc. and focus on the web pages.

ok so i'm noticing the bookmarks thing now. so basically, do you want Wooshy to only focus on the content of the web page and ignore all the rest? even like extensions, etc.? i'm personally bothered by the Address Bar. not by the tabs as i barely use any, and i'm using Safari compact tab mode. but i trigger extensions with Wooshy. seems like or i need to approach each specific thing separately, or if only allow for the web content but i think it's gonna be an issue for a lot of people.

[tsch0hnny]

I'm not trying to push a browser on you, but I solved this issue by using the Arc Browser where I usually have my tabs hidden (you can show them with cmd + s)

[godbout]

@hasantahir added a new Setting to ignore Tabs and URL Bars but for Safari only (for now). i hope to add a full option later to just focus on Web Content but it needs to be customized by Browser so 😴️zzz

[hasantahir]

Thanks G!

Noticed that the new version locks Wooshy and pressing the escape key doesn't close it. Have to click the mouse somewhere to escape from the app.

[godbout]

Noticed that the new version locks Wooshy and pressing the escape key doesn't close it. Have to click the mouse somewhere to escape from the app.

wow that sounds really bad. haven’t noticed that. will let you know asap once i’m back on a computer (in an hour or two).

[hasantahir]

Sorry for flaring this up. This was caused by another app, Keyboard Cowboy.

[godbout]

was just gonna answer that i wasn't able to reproduce here 🤣️

[godbout]

reopening here because there's still a lot of work, digging and exploration to be done to have a proper "Web content focus only" mode to handle all the browsers. thanks @hasantahir as always!