Welcome from Tabs Mixed Plus. As you're probably aware, almost all of us add-on writers have had to either do a near-total rewrite to comply with the new FF57 API, or abandon our projects. I've gradually been reinstating the old behavior from earlier versions of Tabhunter, and having the existing pattern selected like you suggested is in the backlog.

And.... you're absolutely right -- it was a matter of adding a short line of code. It's in version 2.0.3 right now.