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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 8th, 2009
  • Comments: 8

Add Google Chrome’s New Tab Feature To Firefox

You do not get a blank page whenever you open a new tab in the Google browser. Google Chrome displays thumbnails of the most visited websites together with a search function and a list of recently closed pages which can be a great time saver if the user intents to open a website that is [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 22nd, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Move Firefox Tabs From Top To Side

Many experienced Windows users have moved the Windows Taskbar from the bottom to the side. This offers several advantages like displaying more tabs at the same time without grouping them or saving horizontal screen estate. These users on the other hand rarely think about moving the tabs of the web browser to the side which [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 11th, 2008
  • Comments: 6

Change The Location Of Close Button In Firefox

Firefox is displaying a close button on every open tab by default. The active tab is displaying that button in red colors while the rest is using gray to distinguish active and inactive tabs. The close button adds to the length of all tabs which might be a thorn in the eye of users who [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 11th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Firefox Numbered Tabs

A rather unknown feature of Firefox is the ability to quickly switch tabs with the shortcut [CTRL 1-9]. It obviously only works for the first nine tabs, additional tabs cannot be accessed with the shortcut. If less than nine tabs are open pressing a number that corresponds to a non existing tab will activate the [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 17th, 2008
  • Comments: 9

Ask The Readers: Best Tool To Split Firefox Tabs

While checking for new Google Chrome plugins I stumbled upon a plugin called Dual View which made it possible to display two websites in a split tab. This could actually be very handy for numerous reasons like writing articles with a reference site open on the screen which would eliminate the need to switch between [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, firefox, opera

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 17th, 2008
  • Comments: 7

Span Firefox Tabs Across Multiple Rows

Firefox is offering one row for its tabbed browsing feature. Tabs get reduced in size if the user opens additional websites but that stops eventually and additional tabs are not displayed anymore. The tab bar has to be scrolled to access those websites. Alternatively the icon at the end can be clicked on which opens [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

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