Firefox Panorama is a new feature of the upcoming Firefox 4 browser which offers a different way of managing tabs in the browser. Among the features are options to group tabs, display all open tabs on one screen and to only display selected tab sets in the browser’s tabbar.
Tab Sugar basically is a port of the Firefox feature to Google Chrome. It is still in alpha development according to the developer, but for that it offers an impressive set of features.
The extension adds a new button to the Chrome address bar. A click on the button opens the overview page that displays thumbnails of all open websites in the browser. The size of the thubmnails can be increased or decreased by resizing the area they are displayed on.
Probably the most interesting option is to create new groups by dragging and dropping tabs around. The new layout is saved immediately after each action. Now, Tab Sugar works different than Firefox Panorama. Tabs that are moved into groups are not removed from the currently active tabbar. They remain there.
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There is also one core group that is the active group for that window. Other tab groups are automatically opened in new windows, which is a huge difference to the way Firefox handles it.
This reduces the functionality of the extension quite a bit, unless users are used to work with multiple Chrome browser windows at the same time.
The extension had sometimes troubles displaying the saved tab groups on the next restart of the web browser. This may be attributed to the Chrome Dev version this was tested on, but made the extension barely usable on the other hand.
Chrome users who want to give it a try can download the extension from the official Chrome extension repository. Everyone else may prefer to wait until a stable build of the extension is released, because there is nothing worse than having to recover tabs that are no longer displayed because of the extension.
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“there is nothing worse than having to recover tabs that are no longer displayed because of the extension.”
Um, I can name a few dozen things that are worse, starting off with BURNING TO DEATH.
Nothing worse in the context of the extension obviously..