Press Ctrl + Tab (or Shift + Ctrl + Tab) and you are presented with tab thumbnails and titles with the most recently visited ones first so you can more easily determine which tab you want to go, have the one you most probably want to go closer, and as a result get to it faster. Hold Ctrl pressed and keep pressing Tab to see the thumbnails smoothly scroll to the left while the status bar displays the tab web address.
4 comments July 20th, 2008
When you scroll the mouse wheel over the tab bar in Firefox you see the tab titles pass by so you can select the tab you want, which is not always that easy if titles are similar like when having several pages from the same site open simultaneously.
With Tab Wheel Scroll, a Firefox extension developed by Matt H, the mouse wheel actually switches tabs so you can see the full tab contents as you scroll up and down which you can configure to scroll tabs to the left or to the right.
You can also set whether you want to continue with the first or last tab when you have reached the opposite edge so scrolling keeps going. This sounded as a good option at first but turning it off actually made it more usable for me.
Bonus points for not adding any unnecessary user interface other than its options accessible from the Add-ons Manager and being already compatible with Firefox 3 beta versions.
An option (like Ctrl + scroll) for simple tab title scrolling would be welcomed.
Tab Wheel Scroll is available from Mozilla Add-ons.
Add comment April 28th, 2008