Talkings of a Tyrant

There are several tab extensions for Mozilla Firefox. These all add tab functionality in some way, from something as simple as allowing double clicking to close a tab, to the notorious Tabbrowser Extension. My favorite is Tab Mix Plus.

But first, a background:

Warning: Do not install the Tabbrowser Extension! Ever! It is almost officially the most buggy and bloated extension ever. It has a crudload of functionality, but will seriously mess up Firefox’s core system files.

It is, at least in part, due to Tabbrowser Extension that a functional, but bug-free, tab extension was called for. Never again would people want to have to accept major bugs in exchange for functionality (yeah, right)! They called for better tab functionality in a bug-free extension!

Tab Mix answered the call! Tab Mix’s description was:

Tab Mix’s main objectives are to be small, fast, easy to use, logical and without bugs while containing the most natural features related to tab browsing.

Clearly it was a reference to the Tabbrowser Extension.

However, Tab Mix fell out of its updating schedule, and hasn’t been updated since early July (for Firefox 1.0.4). In August, some people apparently decide to take up the project, rename it to Tab Mix Plus, and have been updating it ever since.

Tab Mix Plus, following the description of Tab Mix, is basically everything you’d ever need to do with tabs, sans bugs.

There are possibly a hundred different things you can do with Tab Mix Plus. It is infeasible to list them all here, and don’t ask me to try. Some major ones:

1. Undo Close Tab: Self-explanatory. Never scream in frustration when you accidentally close a tab again!
2. Load last session upon startup: Whatever sites you were viewing when you closed the tabs are there when you start up Firefox! I personally don’t use this. I normally have somewhere between 20-25 tabs up at once, so it takes forever to load up with this option on.
3. Unread tabs are Different: Any tab you haven’t visited is marked with red text. I find it useful, as I always have some article in one of those 20 tabs that I forgot about.
4. Crudload of per-tab functions: Seriously. You can right click on a tab and do just about anything (assuming you’ve enabled this). You can do stuff with these tabs that I’ve never heard of.
5. Bunches upon bunches more. There isn’t even a complete list of features (that I can find) online!

It isn’t until you install Tab Mix Plus that you truly realize how many things you can do with tabs. A hundred different features is probably a good estimate!

Tab Mix Plus is fast, easy, and small. Very small. They managed to fit in into a 100 kilobyte download! Nice work!

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