I am an avid Firefox user. There’s absolutely no existence of the IE on my machine in terms of usage. And well, I also use Flock, which is again a Firefox based browser. And what hooked me to Firefox at the first place was the Tab Browsing facility. With time, we all got so used to it, that we ran out of control while pressing the Ctrl+T button, and the number of tabs ran to 15 and upwards. That’s when browsing between tabs raises an issue. You can of course surf through them by the old trick-using the Ctrl+Tab button. Or perhaps putting in Ctrl+<Number of Tab> to jump directly to the desired Tab. But that limits it to only 9 tabs. What if it’s more than that?Here’s the remedy.

Download the Tab Overflow Scrollbar here from the Firefox addon site. What it does is, it adds a horizontal scrollbar as shown, under the tabs, when the number of tabs exceed 9. This way you can scroll easily to find your desired tab. Easy, isn’t it? Of course, your old-Ctrl+Tab would still work. Would you like to add in some effects to it? May be a Thumbnail preview (as shown in the top image) ? Here’s the addon to it. It’s called Ctrl Tab Preview (shockingly). As the name suggests, it gives you the thumbnail preview as you press Ctrl+Tab to go to the next tab. Hold on to the Tab button to see the thumbnail, and release it to go to the next Tab.

Last Tab browsing addon: Tab Effect. This is just a fancy one, with no actual value addition, but just take my word for it, it looks damn cool! Have a look at the Pic. When you press a new tab by pressing Ctrl+T, or try to browse to a new tab by pressing Ctrl+Tab, this will show a bit of an animation, and give a kind of a cube revolving effect, as shown. This sure is pretty, but a bit heavy on resources, in addition to your already heavy Firefox (given that you have 15 or more tabs open). That’s it for now. More Firefox tips would be rolling out soon. Adios!