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Number your tabs for quicker access

November 14th, 2007

Did you know you can quickly access a Firefox tab pressing the control key (Cmd for Mac users) and the number of the position of the tab? Now you do.

To reach the first tab, press Ctrl + 1, for the second tab, press Ctrl + 2, and so on until the eighth since Ctrl + 9 is reserved for the last tab.

Sounds good, but in practice we aren’t all able to determine the position of a tab at a glance and will end counting tabs effectively defeating the purpose of hotkeys: to save time.

Enters Fancy Numbered Tabs, a simple Firefox extension developed by Chris Gaunt, that replaces the tab close button with the position of the tab so you can quickly know what is the right shortcut. You can still close the tab by pressing the number button.

Simple and effective. Get Fancy Numbered Tabs at Mozilla Add-ons.

Via Mozillalinks.org