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 displaying a gray button instead to distinguish active and inactive tabs. The close button adds to the length of all tabs which might be a thorn in the eye [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- 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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- 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 [...]