Monday, January 10, 2005

Firefox tabbed browsing extension

Office mate (Tom) told me about this tabbed browsing extension for firefox.

It is really nice I havent gone through all its features but here are some of them that I liked.

  • Progress bar on each tab indicating the download status.
  • Color coded tabs that are opened from a single parent tab (i.e right clicking on a link and selecting open in new tab)
  • Reordering tabs

Well these are just a few of the features that are provided, it seems to be highly customizable ( using the menu item 'Tabs')

For installing this pluging navigate to the site using Firefox and select the download link. You may not see the extension being downloaded since firefox may block the pop up from this site, in that case you will get a message stating that the popup has been blocked (same for any other popup being blocked), click on 'Edit Preferences' on this message and allow popups from this site. Now select the download link again and you should see a Firefox extention installation dialog, confirm the selection and you are done.

Restart FireFox and you will be prompted about the type of settings for tabbed browsing (i.e Novice, Advanced..... Authors Settings). I went in for Authors Settings and tweak the settings from there.



Note: This extension causes problems when you want to install other extension.
When ever you click on an extension a site, you just dont see the install confirmation dialog box at all.
The solution to this problem
1.Disable this Tabbed Brower Extension (it can be disabled from the Tools| Extension - right click on the extension and disable it
2. Install other extension that you want.
3. Enable the Tab extension.

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