I’ve tried a thousand utilities for tab switching; I generally use Safari as my primary browser, but I have always liked the tab search feature in Chromium-based browsers.

Witch by Many Tricks handles tab search and switching, but it required a little setup before I could use it the way I wanted. Here are my settings:

Invoking Witch (I used command-shift-k) opens the Witch window, and I can immediately start typing to search for tabs. Safari doesn’t even have to be active for me to search for tabs. Which treats open windows in other apps as tabs, too, so you can search for documents you’ve been working on.