Those users who are paying attention to the development of the Firefox web browser might have already seen the design mockups of future Firefox versions. While these mockups can be subject to change (and most likely will) they do demonstrate how the Firefox development team visualizes future versions of the Firefox browser. One of the additions that was added to one of the last mockups was a progress bar for every tab. This can be helpful for users who open several tabs at once as it visualizes the loading progress of each tab individually.
The experimental Firefox add-on Tab Progress Bar adds this functionality to the latest releases of the Firefox Internet browser. To be precise to versions 3.5 to 3.6a2pre of the browser.
The blue progress bar appears immediately on top of every tab in Firefox if a website is currently loading in that tab. The bar does not alter the design of the web browser in any form as it is cleverly placed above the names of the websites.
Users who are interested in the tab progress bar add-on can download it from the official Mozilla Firefox website where it is provided as a download.
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Thanks for the link.
Great for users of 3.6/3.7 beta, but Tab Mix Plus (which works with 3.5 and under) has an option (for full-height progress bars), plus dozens of other great features…like opening bookmarks, typed URLs, and/or links to other sites in new tabs; changing the text style of tabs, customizing how tabs react to clicks (including locking tabs so they can’t be closed), where the new tab/showcase buttons appear (or make them disappear), and more.
I agree with Doc. :-bd
Or use Tab mix plus than you have the same (with even a better progress representation) effect. And I am not talking about the many other benefits when you use tab mix plus.
Didn’t I just say that above? :)
This is really interesting. I am the person who opens nearly 10 tabs in firefox at a time quickly. To me this update is boon.