Super-useful Firefox extension – App Tabs
Hello, world! I recent found a Firefox extension that’s helped me enormously in sorting out my tabs and keeping track of my most important ones. I would like to introduce you to App Tabs.
In a nutshell, this lets you turn a tab into a smaller, space-saving semi-permanent tab for tabs you always have open. See this:
For example, I always have Gmail, Google Voice and Google Calendar open. Ordinarily they take up a lot of real estate on my tab bar. I turned them into App Tabs with a simple right-click, and now they’re permanent fixtures on my tab bar without cluttering up the other tabs I have open.
It sounds like a pretty small feature, but it’s improved my Firefox experience dramatically. I’d suggest giving it a shot if you keep certain tabs open all the time and are sick of accidentally closing them. :)
Have fun!
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January 15th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Another option is to right-click on any tab in your toolbar -> select ‘properties’ -> and erase all text in the ‘name’ field -> then save. This will give you essentially the same functionality, except that you will have to actually wait for the page to load.
…on the other hand you don’t have to have the potentially negative impact on browsing if you happen to have several tabs open that may be running movies or whatever…
January 15th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
I don’t have a ‘Properties’ dialog come up when I right-click on a tab. What version of Firefox?
January 15th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Sorry, not in the tab itself, but in the bookmark toolbar. If you follow the instructions you’ll end up with a little square icon similar to what you get when you use App Tabs. The only time I don’t make the change is if I have a site that doesn’t have a favicon…
Firefox 3.5.7 on WinXP
May 7th, 2010 at 11:45 am
Hey Jon how are u doing
I use firefox Bookmarks tab which is much more sophisticated. But here is another really coooool app that i have been using for some time.
its called xmarks.
Now I don thave to back up my bookmarks. All I have an online account and a tiny icon at the bottom right of my firefox window. i righ click on it and I hit Synchronize now. It synchs all of my bookmarks and then when I am home I synch again and it updates my bookmarks over there. Also if I am not using my own computer I just go to my online account ‘myxmarks’ and I can see, click my bookmarks from there without even installing this app on that computer or keeping my bookmarks with me.. Its a very very handy and awsome application and its free…. :)
cheers
May 7th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Hello, Taemoor! I actually discovered XMarks a couple weeks ago and have set it up across all my machines. It’s a fantastic app. I didn’t know you could access it from other systems the way you said, though… that’s awesome! Thanks for the tip! :)
May 7th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
you are welcome :)