Tabbed browsing is currently the state of the art in all popular web browsers. It is not a perfect solution though especially for users who happen to open lots of tabs in a browsing session. That’s probably one of the reasons why some browser developers are considering switching to a different system.
One of the advantages of the Firefox web browser is the vast add-on resource pool that improves, changes, removes or adds features to the web browser.
Tab Utilities is such an add-on for the web browser. It improves the tab handling and management of the web browser immensely with the options that it provdes.
Many of the options are available right after installation of the add-on. This ranges from tab opening and tab closing options over mouse-click functionality to link behavior.
Features include:
1. Open Bookmarks/History/URL/Search in new tabs: left/middle click in new background/foreground tabs, ctrl click in current tab
2. Open new tabs next to current tab
3. Reuse current/last/all blank tabs and auto close redundant blank tabs
4. Focus next unread/last selected/last opened/left tab after closing current tab
5. Highlight unread tabs
6. Ctrl-Tab to navigate tabs in mose recently used order
7. Undo Close Tab toolbarbutton
8. Statusbar buttons for Open all links in new tab and Switch to new tabs immediately
9. Duplicate/Protect/Lock/Faviconize/Hide tab
10. Tab clicking options, including left/middle/right/double/ctrl/alt/shift click on tab/tab bar/new tab button
11. Show session history on tab
12. Open link/history with history
13. Single window mode
Some of the most interesting options is access to the tab history when left-clicking a tab, loading urls from the clipboard by middle-clicking on a tab or defining when tabs should be focused in the web browser. Tab Utilities can be downloaded from the Firefox add-on’s website.
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