We are now in year 2011, things have evolved so fast particularly from the software technology perspective. More specifically, if we talk about the graphical interfaces these days many desktop applications support tabs. All the modern browsers these days support some kind of tab management as well. Not to mention many other desktop as well as web applications. One thing I can’t understand for some reason is that why Microsoft is so hesitant to add the tabs management functionality to the Windows ...

By default in Firefox 4 the behavior of the browser has changed a bit in the sense that when you quite, it no longer prompts you to save currently open tabs as it did in Firefox 3.x. You can bring back this behavior by changing a single preference in about:config in Firefox. So just launch the URL about:config and filter the results on the search bar on the browser.showQuitWarning. Then in the window double click on this to enable (true) the  browser.showQuitWarning property. Now even if you ...

Tab Badge is very nice Firefox extension that is pretty lightweight (only 6KB!) in size and has only one function on agenda. And that function is to add nicely superimposed visual badges to the tabs in Firefox. These badges shows you the number of unread messages in Facebook, unread emails in Gmail and so on… There are many use cases for this extension as this extension is more general and should work on many websites by showing badges without problem. Note that the badges are also visible for ...

Tab Counter is an extremely simple Firefox extension that serves one and only one purpose. And that purpose is to calculate the number of open tabs in the current Firefox window and show the count in Firefox toolbar. It can be useful for the users that want to keep an exact track of the tabs that they have opened so far, or to know that how many of the tabs that they opened are still there in the background etc.The toolbar’s default position in Firefox 2.x and 3.x is at the far right in ...

One of the key strengths of the Firefox is the level of extensibility that it provides through the use of extensions. Because of the open-source nature of Firefox and some other related reasons there is a huge community of developers that are actively building new extensions and updating the older ones to be compatible with the new versions of this browser. Already official Firefox extension repository is approaching 2,000 Firefox extensions(currently hovering at 1989) and there are many other extensions ...

If you are tired of having to scroll around back and forth in the tab-bar of Firefox, after you have opened a lot of tabs? Then Taboo may be able to help here as this is a Firefox extension made specifically to tackle the issue of tab bloat in the Firefox. Taboo will allow you to taboo a number of tabs(of your choice) that means that once they are tabooed you can come back to them later for reading using the taboo button (T in the Firefox toolbar) when you want. You can also search the webpages ...