Tag: TABS

While they've been available in Chromium (and Chromium OS) for quite some time, side tabs only made the jump to Google Chrome in yesterday's update. If you've got a nice, big widescreen monitor on your desktop and you want to shift your tabs from the top to the left edge of your browser, here's how to do it. Like so many new Chrome features, side tabs are hidden behind a command line flag: ...

With our Web browsers becoming more and more like an OS -- or actually becoming an OS as with Chrome -- it's not surprising to see developers turning their eye toward features which provide a desktop-like experience. Over at Mozilla, they've been working away at TabCandy -- which offers a whole new way to manage your Firefox tabs. TabCandy is a bit like a full-featured virtual desktop manager ...

Google Chrome has been my default browser for quite some time, but I've got to admit... I like what I'm seeing so far in Firefox 4, and the tweaks just keep on coming. One recent addition which has been talked about for some time is the option to create App Tabs. Firefox 4's App Tabs look pretty much like a pinned tab in Google Chrome. For now, an App Tab appears to simply force a tab to the ...

Looking for nice, minimal tab manager extension for Google Chrome? Have a look at -- what else -- Tab Manager. It's perfect for the number of tabs I usually have open (fifteen or less) but it may not be quite so well-suited to those of you who have dozens of tabs open simultaneously. Tab Manager only displays favicons and there are no tooltips to display a tab's title -- which make things a bit ...

OK, so at this point the change is little more than bumping a number, but the arrival of a Firefox 4 candidate in the Mozilla FTP is still nice to see. Recently we've seen several changes land in Firefox 4, most noticeably in the default Windows theme which now has tabs-on-top by default. Don't worry, though -- Firefox 4 will be as customizable as it ever was, and you'll be able to switch back ...

Phew, what a week we've had here in the dark, dank Download Squad bunker! Not only has it been a good week for Firefox, but for all browsers everywhere! This week we saw the release of IE9 preview 3 -- and while it's by no means complete (it doesn't even have a GUI!), we can now be certain that hardware acceleration, along with HTML5, is the wave of the future. And... Firefox is leading that ...

Google Chrome is a great Web browser, but it's got a few shortcomings. Tops on my list are the bare bones download manager and its crappy tab reopening ability. No, I don't want to right-click and reopen five tabs just to get back to the one Web page that I want reopened. I want choice! Give me a drop down menu that lets me choose from a selection of recently closed tabs -- like Opera does! ...

Tab Utilities is not for minimalists. I can only imagine how much thought had to go into organizing the myriad options the add-on offers into a somewhat sensible Options dialog. Even so, going through all of the options the add-on provides took me several minutes. This add-on has it all. You name it -- it can do it. Protect tabs? Check. Faviconize? Sure. Locking and freezing too, but that's just ...

Xmarks is an excellent tool for maintaining the same set of bookmarks in all your web browsers -- on all your computers. It works with Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome and in addition to your bookmarks they've recently been busily adding tab sync support. Today they've announced on the official Xmarks blog that your open tabs are now available anywhere. That includes places where ...

Mozilla's been playing around with interface changes in Firefox 3.7 for a while -- there's the updated default theme and built-in glass support (which made a very brief appearance and has yet to return). In yesterday's nightly build, another UI option appeared: a simple right-click allows you to move your tabs to the top of the browser window. If you've been looking for Opera or Chrome-like, ...

Google Chrome has basic session recovery and can load a specific set of URLs upon launching, but it's nothing too exciting. If you're after a more powerful alternative, check out the Session Buddy extension. Once installed, you can save and restore tabs and windows from previous browsing sessions. You can also remove specific tabs or windows prior to restoring -- just in case there are pages ...

Jumping back and forth between browser windows is easy -- alt+tab has taken care of that for ages. If you prefer restricting your browsing activities to a single browser window, however, bouncing back and forth between two tabs can be a little trickier. The Recent Tabs extension for Google Chrome handles this task nicely. Once installed, you can invoke the switcher via ctrl+q or ctrl+`. ...

Have a bad habit of overwhelming Firefox with a few dozen too many tabs? You might want to check out the clever-yet-simple BarTap add-on. Here's what it does. When you click on a link you've chosen to open in a new tab, Firefox normally loads the page content immediately. BarTap keeps an eye on these actions, and intervenes when it sees a new tab appear. It prevents Firefox from loading any ...

On a recent Google Chrome post one of our commenters -- MoneyMike -- lamented the apparent passing of one of Chrome's popular UI features in recent nightly builds: pinned tabs. I, too, noticed the change recently and wondered what was going on. There's been plenty of discussion amongst Chrome developers, and it boils down to an evolutionary step for Chrome and the introduction of app tabs. The ...

Weave, Mozilla's browser sync tool, has finally hit version 1.0 -- for both the desktop and mobile versions of Firefox! Install the add-on in your browser, and you can securely sync your Firefox profile data like bookmarks, history, passwords -- even the tabs you have open -- across all the machines on which you run it. Weave accounts are free to create, and your information is encrypted, ...