Every open tab in the Firefox web browser uses computer memory. That’s not a problem if a dozen or less are open, but can quickly become one if the count reaches 40 or more. Some users are experiencing lags and delays because of this, which often can be resolved by restarting the browser. It does [...]

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You may have heard about a new feature called Tab Sets that has been integrated into the latest developer nightlies of the Firefox web browser. Tab Sets, as the developer call them, adds tab management capabilities to the web browser. When you start Firefox for the first time, you will notice a new option in [...]

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I just stumbled upon Rarst’s post over at his blog about moving browser tabs to the right, and felt intrigued. I have tried to move the tabs to the sidebar before but quickly reverted the changes, mainly because it takes some time to get adjusted to it, especially after working for years with tabs on [...]

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I had a chat lately with a friend who happened to have a staggering amount of tabs open in Firefox all the time. We are talking about 100 and more tabs. The only complaint that he had was that it took a long time to load all this tabs as Firefox was trying to load [...]

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Internet users with widescreen monitors see lots of whitespace when they run the web browser maximized as most websites are optimized for a width of about 1000 pixels. Options are to either reduce the size of the web browser window so that another window can be displayed next to it or leave it running in [...]

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A change in the default behavior is often problematic for many users. Firefox 3.6 has introduced a change in the way new tabs are opened. Before Firefox 3.6 tabs were always opened at the right in the web browser which meant that tabs were added as a new tab at the end of the tabbar [...]

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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 [...]

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If you are like me you sometimes open lots of websites in tabs at once only to close them down one after the other after a short inspection of the website’s contents. The Firefox web browser offers two different options to close tabs. The first is by clicking with the mouse on the close icon [...]

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Remember Pin Tabs? The Firefox add-on that we reviewed recently was mysteriously deleted from the Firefox add-on repository over at the Mozilla Firefox website. No one knew why it was deleted and it was not clear at that point in time if the developer would make it available again. The wait is now over with [...]

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