8 Firefox Add-ons To Visualize Your Tabs

Managing tabs in Firefox can sometimes be annoying, especially if you have a lot of open sites. Here are 8 add-ons to help you manage and viualize your tabs in Firefox:

1. Firefox Showcase - The Firefox Showcase add-on gives you the ability to manage your tabs as thumbnails in a window, tab or sidebar.  Each thumbnailed tab also receives a label, the ability to drag-and-drop rearrangement, and more.  A great idea for students doing research that need to use multiple sources.


2. FishEyeTabs - This particular tool will magnify a tab for easier reading when you have too many tabs open and the labels have gotten too small for you to read.


3. FoxTab - FoxTab provides you with five graphical interfaces for displaying your tabs so that you can browse through them without just having to stare at the names along the top and hope you remember what the site is about.  This extension could be especially useful to web designers as you can easily have multiple screenshots displayed at once depending on the configuration you choose.


4. Tab Catalog - Using different commands such as F8 or clicking both mouse buttons at once, you can launch a thumbnail gallery of all your current tabs with Tab Catalog.  Once the thumbnails are open, you can close any of them or multiple tabs at once.


5. Tab Popup - Tab Popup allows you to simply roll your mouse over a tab to see a preview of what it contains.  Since the previews are larger than a standard thumbnail, Tab Popup is great for people who need to have lots of tabs open for research.


6. Tab Preview - This popup preview lets you set options such as how long after mouseover it should display the preview, the size of the thumbnail and where it should be displayed.


7. Tab Sidebar - As the name suggests, Tab Sidebar moves your tabs to the sidebar, hiding the original tabs menu.  The most noticeable difference with this new placement is that you get a thumbnail preview of each tab in the sidebar for easier browsing.  Other features include updating thumbnails, navigation for each tab, drag-and-drop movement of the tabs and more.


8. Tab Slideshow - Tab Slideshow will begin scrolling through all of your open tabs after an amount of time that you set.  While this might not be the most useful add-on, it could be a fun screensaver while you’re on a phone call.