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Organize your Firefox tabs with Tab Kit

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richardcqz on Wednesday, 12 March 2008No Comment

Tab Kit is an add-on for Firefox designed for the sort of person who likes to keep a ridiculous number of tabs open. If you’ve ever tried open a few dozen tabs, you’re probably well aware that Firefox tends to cram the tabs closer and closer together each time you open a new window until it’s almost impossible to tell which tab is which.

Tab Kit makes tabs more efficient for power users, bringing comprehensive tab grouping, and tweaks such as multiple rows of tabs or displaying tabs as a tree.

Can show tabs on multiple rows

Can move the tabbar to the left edge of the screen (or right, or bottom)

In which case it can become a tree
Resizeable with a splitter
The sidebar can also be moved

Manually or automatically sort tabs (by address, last loaded, last viewed, order of creation, origin or title)

Tab grouping, manually or automatically

By domain
By opener (parent) tab
Groups are colored
Useful commands, e.g. bookmark an entire group
Groups can be collapsed to the size of one tab
Fully integrated with session restoring

Detailed control over new tab position

And choose which tab to select after closing the current tab

Easily duplicate tabs/groups and copy/move them between windows by dragging

Mouse gestures:

Scrollwheel tab switch (while mouse is over tab bar and/or while holding down right mouse)
Click left while holding right to go back in page history, and vice versa

Highlight unread tabs (and emphasise current tab to help it stand out)

Minor tweaks, such as:

A scrollbar instead of scroll arrows in the Bookmarks and All Tabs popups when they get too long
Easy adjustment of minimum tab width

Download Tab Kit from the Mozilla Addons Sandbox (requires login - though you can use username "bugmenot@mailinator.com", password "bugmenot" if you can’t be bothered to create an account).