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Page Snooze For Chrome, Hide Inactive Tabs

If you are like me, you have some tabs open in your web browser of choice that you do not use regularly. For me it is most often program website or service tabs that I want to write about, but cannot at that point in time. It happens that I keep those websites open in [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Display Open Tab Count in Firefox

It is sometimes the little things that can make a big difference in day to day activities on a computer. The open tabs count of Firefox has gone up significantly on my computer system in recent times as I’m currently going through all 20k tags here on Ghacks to consolidate them. Firefox by default only [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Close Tabs Efficiently In Firefox

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Tab Position Customizer For Google Chrome

Tabbed web browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera or Internet Explorer have specific orders in which tabs are opened and closed. Developers have to configure orders for opening blank pages and links as well as activation rules when users close tabs. The default behavior of most browsers opens blank tabs on the rightmost side of [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

TooManyTabs For Chrome Improves Tab Management

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

Flip Through Firefox Tabs With The Mouse-Wheel

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Opening Tabs In Firefox, Configuration Options

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

New Firefox Tab Manager Tabberwocky

Tabberwocky is a lightweight Firefox tab manager alternative of the popular Tab Mix Plus add-on. It offers popular options like protecting tabs from being closed, duplicate already open tabs, open new tabs next to the active tab and managing several other important aspects of tabs in Firefox. The Firefox add-on will add several of its [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Make Tabs Permanent In Firefox

Firefox by default handles all tabs the same way. A tab gets closed if a user presses the close button, no matter if that action was intended or not. It is also true that new websites get loaded in the active tab under certain circumstances which is another thing that some users might want to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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