gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » firefox showcase http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Firefox Showcase Tab Management Extensionhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/10/firefox-showcase-tab-management-extension/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/10/firefox-showcase-tab-management-extension/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:27:59 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/10/firefox-showcase-tab-management-extension/ There is quite a discussion going on currently about the future of the tab-driven web browser. The Mozilla Firefox team seems to be serious to discover a new way of handling multiple open websites in a web browser without using tabs as the primary means of managing those open pages.

The Firefox extension Showcase changes the way tabs are handled in the Internet browser. It’s main feature is the ability to display thumbnails of all open websites in a overlay window in the web browser which makes it dead easy to locate and access the websites. The keyboard shortcut [F12] has been chosen to open and hide the thumbnail view of all open websites.

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A few additional shortcuts are provided to change the functionality or display of the websites. Pressing [F12] will open all open tabs even across different Firefox windows. This can be changed by pressing [Shift F12] which will only open the tabs of the active Firefox window.

It is furthermore possible to open the thumbnails in a new tab with the keyboard shortcut [Ctrl+Alt+T] and in the Firefox sidebar with [Ctrl+Alt+S].

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The Firefox extension comes with extensive settings that can change the appearance and functionality of the add-on. It is for example possible to change the thumbnail appearance, colors, behavior when clicking on one of the thumbnails and much more.

Firefox Showcase is an interesting extension for the web browser that is probably most useful for users who work with many tabs open several, but not to many tabs at a time.

Users who work with fifty or more tabs will have their issues with the extension, as they do with the standard tab interface. No solution has been found yet to provide them with a better way to organize open tabs in the Firefox web browser.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/10/firefox-showcase-tab-management-extension/feed/ 1 Firefox Showcase Extensionhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/24/firefox-showcase-extension/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/24/firefox-showcase-extension/#comments Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:38:11 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/24/firefox-showcase-extension/ This extension is sweet. If you like to open many tabs at once and flip around while surfing you might encounter the problem that you can’t find a certain article in the massive amount of tabs that are open at the time. I usually flip through them until I find the article that I was searching for. Takes a lot of time and I always was hoping for an extension that would help me optimize this procedure.

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Showcase is my savior. The firefox extension works with all versions including the latest 2.0 release. It is capable of displaying all open tabs either in the sidebar, a tab or a new window. Clicking on one of the images of your open tabs will bring that tab to the front. Right-Clicking a thumbnail will give you additional options like saving that page to the bookmarks, delete the tab or save the page.

Showcase comes with its own Options menu which looks very much like the original firefox options menu. It has so many entries and tabs that it is impossible to write about each here. Just take a look at them and see for yourself. What can I say, I love it.

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