If you have a lot of tabs open in the Chrome web browser, you will notice at one point that you cannot see the favicons (the website specific icons) anymore in the browser’s tab bar. That’s a problem as it is no longer possible to identify the websites that are open in Google Chrome. Take [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

The tabs in Firefox look all the same, with the exception of the active tab that is displayed more prominently. This leaves the website’s favicon and the first letters of the page title for identification purposes. FabTabs introduces another, automatic, option to distinguish and identify websites. The Firefox extension takes a screenshot of each website [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Users who open many tabs at once in a web browser will eventually run into display problems. The browser window is only capable of displaying a finite number of tabs at the same time. Some browsers offer to change the minimum tab width (see Change Firefox’s Minimum, Maximum Tab Width), but that is only a [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

One great aspect of Google Chrome now supporting extensions as well is the fact that some developers produce extensions that have not been created yet for Firefox. Most of the extensions are obviously offering a similar functionality than those provided to Firefox users but those unique ones will eventually benefit Firefox users as well as [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

There was a time when I used Opera almost exclusively. This has changed with the rise of the Firefox web browser but I do know quite a few users who use Opera as their main web browser. Rarst likes Opera. That becomes apparent if you look at the comments that he leaves here at Ghacks. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

Tabs have become the standard in web browsers to browse Internet pages. They have several advantages like being space efficient or easier manageable. The first application for Windows that introduced tabbed browsing was QT Tab Bar which added that functionality to Windows Explorer. Windows Tabifier takes the concept a step further by breaking out of [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Whenever a user creates a new tab in Firefox, which usually is done by pressing CTRL T, the tab that appears is completely blank and does not provide any information whatsoever. Now this is different if you middle-click a link or bookmark because this action will load the website under the link in the new [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox