TotalFinder Adds Tabs to Your Native Finder

TotalFinder, a hack by Antonin Hildebrand, aims to provide a better Finder.app for Mac OS X users.

While still in ALPHA, TotalFinder already provides some great features such as:
- Make Finder available system-wide on a hot-key (like Visor)
- Add TABS like in Google Chrome!
- Stop creating .DS_Store litter
- Show the folders always on top

The latest ALPHA v0.6 brings tabs courtesy of the open source Chromium project.

There is a great state-of-the-art open source tabs implementation in the Chromium project available. I’ve studied briefly their codebase and it looked as a promising path to follow. I took their main browser window implementation and also components realizing tabs and extracted them from the main project. I’ve spent few days stripping dependencies and isolating functionality I needed. Dirty job but it paid off. After few evenings I’ve got working skeleton app with blank tabs.


ALPHA v0.6 changes
* NEW: Tabs! thanks to Chromium codebase, love you Google.
* NEW: Visor mode window could be avoided by unchecking both activation options.
* FIXED: Better stability.
* FIXED: Visor window remembers it's height during restarts.
* FIXED: Visor window does not show up during expose.
* FIXED: Fixed quirks related to sliding visor window.
* FIXED: Visor window stays up until there is no window with main status within Finder.app.
* REMOVED: Visor window can slide only from bottom of the screen. Removed "Position" selector.
* REMOVED: Dropped ppc architecture support.

A maintenance release is expected on January 25th to address any issues caused by this release.

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