Cycling tabs graphically

Question

Mac OS X's window manager is composed of:

1. Applications
2. Windows
3. Tabs

By default on OS X, you can cycle over applications with the famous ⌘⇥ shortcut. In addition to this, I use a little utility called Witch which enables cycling (graphically) over windows too(I've defined it on ⌥⇥). Unfortunately, it does not currently support tabs cycling...

Would you have any suggestion for this? I know I already can ^⇥ for this, but I'm looking for a graphical utility where you are not blind during cycling.

Thank you.

Answer 1

This isn't exactly an answer to your question, more of a proof of concept that it could be done. Using AppleScript (via the "Script Editor" application in /Applications/AppleScript) I am able to get a list of the names of the tabs in the frontmost window of Safari:

tell application "Safari"
    get the name of every tab of window 1
end tell

Produces:

{"Unanswered Questions - Super User", "How do I install a font on a Macintosh? - Super User", "Cycling tabs graphically - Super User"}

And the following:

tell application "Safari"
    tell window 1
        set current tab to tab 3
    end tell
end tell

Make the third tab of the first window active. So given this, it would be possible to write some sort of script or application which pops up a list of tabs to choose from and then based on selection, activates the current tab. I don't know of any software like that, if anyone else does, please post!