Opening a lot of tabs in Firefox can compress them so small that you don’t know what each one is. This CSS tweak will enlarge the active tab, so you can at least always see what page you’re working on. More »
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Widen the Active Tab in Firefox to Make It Easier to Read [Firefox]
Posted on April 13, 2011
Set Bookmarks to Open in a New Tab [URL Hacks]
Posted on March 23, 2011
If you have a few sites that you visit particularly often but you want them to open up in a new tab every time you visit them, reader Java-Princess shows us how to make them do so. More »
Perfect Browser Adds Tabs, Gestures, and More to iOS, Is the Ultimate iPad Browser [Downloads]
Posted on January 5, 2011
iOS: Safari is an okay browser on the iPhone, but it’s surprisingly unsatisfactory on the much larger-screened iPad. Perfect Browser completely changes the iOS browsing experience, bringing tabbed browsing, user agent control, touch screen gestures, and hyper fast scrolling to your fingertips. More »
Top 10 Must-Have Browser Extensions [Video]
Posted on November 6, 2010
Your browser of choice may have changed a lot in the past year, but luckily the best extensions for making your browser better have kept up with all the most popular browsers. Here are our cross-platform, must-have favorites. More »
Tab Sugar Brings Panorama-Like Tab Management to Chrome [Downloads]
Posted on September 10, 2010
Chrome: If Firefox’s new tab-management tool Panorama—formerly known as Tab Candy—caught your eye, you'll like Tab Sugar. Tab Sugar is a Chrome-based clone of Panorama with just as much tab slinging eye candy as you'd expect. More »
Move Your Tabs to the Side in Google Chrome for Widescreen-Friendly Browsing [Chrome Tip]
Posted on July 22, 2010
If you’re a widescreen lover who’d prefer your browser take up fewer vertical pixels and are happy to sacrifice a few horizontally to your tabs, Chrome’s new side tabs feature (available in the Dev channel) is a nice option. More »
Split Screen Slices Your Chrome Window into Two Panes [Downloads]
Posted on April 8, 2010
Chrome: Split Screen takes advantage of the expansive view offered by wide-screen monitors and splits the viewing pane into two separate panels for side-by-side browsing. More »
VerticalTabs Gives You Fine Tuned Control Over Your Chrome Tabs [Downloads]
Posted on February 2, 2010
Google Chrome: It’s easy to fill up the tab bar in Chrome to the point where you can’t read the tab titles or easily find what you’re looking for. VerticalTab lets you view tabs in a list and search, sort, and more.
VerticalTabs places a small icon in the Chrome toolbar next to the address box. Clicking on the icon displays all your tabs in a vertical list where you can select tabs or drag and drop them via mouse input or using keyboard shortcuts. In the options menu you can change the width and size of the vertical tab display and toggle the tab-count display on and off.
VerticalTabs is free and works wherever Google Chrome does. Have a favorite extension for wrangling tabs? Let’s hear about it in the comments.
VerticalTabs [Google Chrome Extensions]
TabJump is a Smart, Organized Tab Manager for Google Chrome [Downloads]
Posted on January 28, 2010
Google Chrome (Windows/Mac/Linux): If you tend to have tons of small, hard-to-read tabs open at a time, navigate through them with TabJump, a Chrome extension that lets you open recently closed tabs, jump to open tabs, and group related tabs together.
We've all been there before—you open up Wikipedia for a five-minute break, and two hours later you have 30 tabs open. TabJump is a great tab manager for Google Chrome, that sits in the address bar and organizes all your open and recently closed tabs, so you can easily navigate through your sea of open pages. Your open tabs are organized into two columns, one of which shows the tabs related to the one currently in focus, so you can quickly jump between open pages from the same site. You can also lock certain pages, protecting them from accidental closure. If you try to close a locked tab, you'll get a popup message from Chrome asking you if you are sure, preventing you from losing what was really important out of all those open tabs.
TabJump is a free download, works wherever Google Chrome does (Note: You’ll need to be running the beta channel for extension support on Linux, and the dev channel for extension support in OS X). Thanks, MPS!
TabJump – Intelligent Tab Navigator [Google Chrome Extensions]
TotalFinder Adds Tabs, Hotkeys, and Other Tweaks to OS X’s Finder [Downloads]
Posted on January 15, 2010
Mac only: Many users have been unhappy with OS X’s Finder for a while, wishing for tabs, fixes for hidden file annoyances, and other conveniences. TotalFinder is a plug-in containing all this and more, creating a Finder worthy of a power user.
We've all been itching for new features in Finder, and the latest upgrade to Snow Leopard did little to help that on the surface—but its rewriting in Cocoa has opened Finder up to all the possibilities of SIMBL plug-ins, which TotalFinder has taken advantage of. The biggest upside to this approach is that, unlike current Finder-replacement favorite PathFinder, TotalFinder integrates into the existing Finder so you don’t have another application to launch. Also, it’s free (albeit less feature-rich).
Some of the highlights include things like Visor-like activation—making Finder accessible at all times with just a hotkey. In addition, it has some hidden features that most of you Finder power users have probably already implemented, like showing hidden files. However, it adds to this by redirecting those annoying .DS_Store files to another folder, rather ingeniously—they'll still be accessible by Finder, but never again will they clutter up every Finder window you open.
Possibly the coolest and most wished-for feature TotalFinder adds, though, is tabbed browsing. The plug-in adds tabs to the title bar—similar to Chrome's (okay, they're exactly like Chrome's)—to save on some of that oh-so-precious screen real estate. Simple, but a huge boon to anyone who spends a lot of time in the app.
The biggest downside to TotalFinder is that it's still in alpha stage. In fact, it's more unstable than your average alpha—if there were such thing as super alpha, TotalFinder would certainly fall into that category. So make sure you have your Time Machine backup prepared just in case, and be forewarned! But if you back up religiously and love the thrill of over-tweaking your computer with unstable software, have at it. If you don't like it, there's an uninstall script that will remove it completely from your computer. Also, because it's in such early stages, the developers have a lot of things planned for the future—so, in theory, TotalFinder won't always be the unstable, feature-minimal upgrade it is now—god willing, we may all have a nice PathFinder replacement on our hands one day.
TotalFinder is a free download, Mac OS X 10.6 only. UPDATE: It turns out that the plug-in is likely only going to be free until the developer releases a beta version—but at least you can try it out until then, and worry about it when it turns into a pay app.
TotalFinder [via TUAW]