Firefox, like other web browsers, can only display a certain amount of tabs at the same time. This is handled by minimum and maximum width parameters. Once the limit is reached, arrows are added to the right and left side of the tabbar that need to be used to access tabs that are no longer [...]

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Firefox users with lots of tab open in the browser often try to find ways to improve the browser’s tab management capabilities. The core issue that they face is that part of the open tabs are hidden from view, and that it may take lots of scrolling to get there. There are built-in options to [...]

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Web browsers can be configured to open website urls either in the current tab or in a new tab. The developers of Firefox have added options to Firefox that give the user a choice when opening links with mouse-clicks. A left-click opens the url in the same tab, a middle-click in a new tab. I [...]

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Sometimes it is little things that can make a big difference. When it comes to closing tabs in the Firefox web browser, users have options to close the tab with a click on the x icon that is either displayed on the right of the tab or at the end of the tabbar. They can [...]

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Which web browser handles 150 open tabs better, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome? That’s what Gregor Wagner wanted to find out in a scalability test. The test setup was the following: Open the 150 most popular web sites in both web browsers and see which performs better memory and performance wise. Gregor automated the process [...]

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I like to limit the open tabs in the Firefox browser, actually in every browser, to the visible space. While it is sometimes unavoidable to add more tabs to the browser than can be displayed without scrolling, it is an unpleasant experience that I try to avoid as best as I can. Why? First, it [...]

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The Mozilla Firefox web browser offers several keyboard shortcuts to navigate through tabs in the web browser. Firefox users can use Ctrl-[1-9] to access the first nine tabs directly, or Ctrl-Tab to flip through tabs forward and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to move backwards in the tab row. There is also the option to click on a tab [...]

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How do you like your tabs to open in the Firefox web browser? Mozilla has changed the default tab opening behavior in Firefox 3.6 noticeably. Related tabs open to the right of the active tab, while unrelated tabs open at the end of the tab row. That’s inconsistent and something that has bothered me for [...]

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I just stumbled upon the Firefox extension Custom Tab Width which adds functionality to Firefox to change the minimum and maximum tab width. The default values are a minimum width of 100 pixels and a maximum width of 250 pixels. Custom Tab Width adds a small configuration window to Firefox where users can change the [...]

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