Sort Tabs In Firefox

If you are one of those Firefox users who likes to have dozens of tabs open in the Firefox tabbar then you might have sometimes lost track of where specific websites where located in the tabbar. Options were to simply click through the tabs one by one until the right tab was found, to use an add-on that would search in the tabs or use a tab preview feature like those implemented in Firefox 3.6.

Sort Tabs offers another option. The Firefox add-on adds the option to sort all open tabs in the Firefox web browser. The tab sorting option is added to the right-click menu when right-clicking the tabbar. The option provided is to sort the tabs by url. There is unfortunately no option to change the sorting criteria to another value like page title or age.

This will sort all open tabs in Firefox. It did even move locked tabs (locked with App Tabs) to their appropriate place based on their url. It could therefor also affect other add-ons that lock tabs in the Firefox tabbar.

The only other options that are provided by the Sort Tabs add-on are to close blank tabs and duplicate tabs when the tabs are sorted by the add-on. It is also possible to reverse the sort order in the options.

Sort Tabs is available for download at the Mozilla Firefox website. It is compatible with all Firefox 3.x versions.

Tags: firefox, firefox sort tabs, firefox tabbar, firefox-add on, mozilla-firefox
Categories: Browsing, firefox

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3 Responses to “Sort Tabs In Firefox”

1. 26Dolphins says:

   November 22, 2009 at 8:55 pm

   Hi Martin,

   I am one of those “users who like to have dozens of tabs open in the Firefox tabbar” and sometimes I do loose track of where specific sites are located in the tab-bar.
   In those cases I find the button “List all tabs” very handy – left-clicking on it lists all open tabs, showing the url description in the order of having opened them.
   I’m quite happy with it & I never thought of using an add-on.

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2. Mony says:

   November 25, 2009 at 1:58 pm

   Hi Martin,

   I am also the person who opens many tabs at the same time and got confused to see the tab clutter. I should try this add on to try to find whether it fits.

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3. Marc says:

   January 19, 2010 at 11:11 pm

   Great tool. Could you include the option to sort by title also?

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