Increase the Functionality of Your Firefox Tabs

Posted on March 8, 2010 at 5:00 am

Do you want an easy way to extend the functionality of the tabs in Firefox? Tabberwocky provides many features to enhance the usability of the tabs, including the ability to duplicate, protect, and lock tabs, and to have a multi-row tab bar and new and close tab buttons, and to customize the context menu for the tabs.

Install the Tabberwocky extension from:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14439.

Setting Your Options

Once the extension is installed, you should set the options to customize it.

To access the options, select Add-ons from the Tools menu.

The Add-ons dialog box displays. Make sure the Extensions button is selected on the toolbar and scroll down to Tabberwocky.

Click the Options button. The Tabberwocky Options dialog box displays.

Tab Options

There are many options on the Tabs screen for customizing how the tabs in Firefox work.

In the Tab behavior box, select one of the check boxes (Only links or Always) next to the Open tabs to the right of current tab option to have new tabs opened to the right of the currently selected tab either always or only when you click a link.

When you close a tab you can choose to display the tab to the right or to the left of the tab being closed, or the last selected tab, whether or not it is right next to the tab being closed. Use the drop-down list next to After closing a tab, switch to option in the Tab behavior box.

If you have so many tabs open that the closing X is not available on each tab, the Double-click to close option in the Tab clicking options box would be useful. Select it to be able to double-click on a tab to close it.

Select the check box for the Show close button option and select an option from the drop-down list to specify when a close button is available on a tab.

Menus Options

The Menus screen provides options for customizing the pop-up menu accessed when right-clicking on a tab.

The following image shows an example of the options that are available on the pop-up menu. Use the Menus screen to turn on and off some of the options.

Advanced Options

There is one really useful option on the Advanced screen if you tend to open a lot of tabs in one instance of Firefox.

Select the Multiple-row tab bar check box to display your tabs on more than one row. This allows you to see more web pages you have open at a time. Specify the Maximum number of rows for Firefox to display in the edit box.

There is a limit of 64 rows; however, that would seem to be plenty. If you have that many web pages open, you might consider opening more instances of Firefox, or closing some pages. smile_regular

by Lori Kaufman

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3 Responses to “Increase the Functionality of Your Firefox Tabs”

VP said on : March 9th, 2010 at 4:44 am

I see why these add-ons are so popular for users to systematically organize and maximize the functionality of their Firefox Tabs. Glad i happened to stumble on this. thank you.

sarah said on : April 11th, 2010 at 6:02 am

it does not work. multiple tab rows do not happen. using chromifox basic theme maybe the reason but it does not work.

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