Tag Archives: tab

Firefox 13 Now Available For Download, Brings A New Tab Page & SPDY Support

by on
2
With Mozilla’s release schedule, most Firefox updates we’ve seen in the past have been quite slow, but this time around, things are a bit different. Firefox 13, which is now available for download, actually introduces some major improvements, including a redesigned Homepage and a New Tab page. When you first start up the browser, the Firefox new Start Page gives you easy access to Settings, along with Downloads, Bookmarks, History, Add-ons, Sync, and Restore Previous Session options. That’s not all; the new version finally offers the long-promised New Tab page, which comes with thumbnails of often-viewed sites. This page automatically loads thumbnails for your pinned tabs/frequently visited websites, but you can always remove unwanted pages and drag bookmarks for your favorite websites on to the page. Additionally, Firefox now supports the SPDY protocol, which will improve performance and load times. Read More

Mysites: Get Windows 8 Metro Start Screen-Like New Tab Page On Chrome

by on
1
MySites, a Chrome extension, adds a Windows 8 Metro-inspired new start page to your browser that is fully customizable, with the most visited websites, apps and bookmarks speed dials. This slick extension gives you a personalized, stylish and practical start page with large, colorful, attractive tiles, which you can click to instantly access your most frequented websites and bookmarks. Additionally, MySites lets you search the web directly from the start page. The tile sizes are directly related to the number of visits, so the design allows you to quickly get from the new tab page to your desired websites with minimal friction. Read More

Get Tree-View For All Bookmarks On Chrome’s New Tab Page

by on
Leave a comment
If you're managing enormous amounts of bookmarks in Chrome, finding the right one from the folders or the Bookmark Manager can sometimes be difficult, not to mention the extra step involved in navigating to the bookmarks bar or the manager itself. New Tab + Bookmark Tree is an extension for Chrome that customizes the new tab page and loads all your bookmarks whenever you open a new tab, so you can quickly open your favorite or most visited websites. It gives users quick access to all the saved bookmarked items, without having to open the bookmarks manager. The extension lets you customize the look and feel of the new tab page according to your choice, for instance, you can change the font color, size, background color, number of columns and other options. Read More

Access Reddit History For Visited Links Without Signing In [Firefox]

by on
Leave a comment
Did you come across something really funny on Reddit, but now just can't find it any more? Reddit is one of the largest social news websites on the internet, with content ranging from politics and funny images to videos and loads more. The platform has a massive collection of all kinds of links/images that you can enjoy browsing, but when you want to share links that you visited at a earlier time and can't find them, it can get really annoying. Even though Reddit allows you to save links if you're logged in to the site, that only means extra clicks. This is where Reddit History, a Firefox add-on, comes in handy. This slick tool lets you view the history of all your visited links, even when you are not logged in to Reddit. It does this by integrating a new tab, labeled history, to Reddit’s interface. Under this tab, you will find a list of all your visited links that you can filter by sub-reddit and text search (regex) options. Read More

Ultimate New Tab: Access Bookmarks, History, Apps, Tabs & More [Chrome]

by on
1
Ultimate New Tab is an extension for Chrome that customizes the new tab page and adds multiple themes, tab organization, bookmarks, history and a speed dial to it. All these can be accessed from within the same tab, allowing fast navigation. Ultimate New Tab lets you search the web extensively without having to separately open your bookmarks, apps and history. The extension comes with smooth gestures, and you can easily use the keyboard or mouse to navigate to your bookmarked or recently visited websites. Read More

WebView: Save Content From Web As Refreshable Clippings [Chrome]

by on
Leave a comment
WebView extension for Chrome allows you to save parts of websites as clippings in a custom tab. This tab includes all important images, text or other content that you cut and save from different websites. The extension is somewhat similar to newspaper clippings, and helps users save interesting parts from websites for later viewing. After the extension is installed, a scissors button is added to the toolbar, which can be clicked to select content from webpages. Once an area has been selected, it is then saved in a new WebView page. Moreover, content can be refreshed and minimized. Details past the jump. Read More

FDock: Group Similar Tabs & Quickly Launch Bookmarks [Firefox]

by on
Leave a comment
FDock is a Firefox add-on that adds a tab dock to your browser window. The dock houses bookmarks and the tabs you have open. Instead of going through the Tab bar which gets cluttered when you have too many tabs open, you can use the dock to preview your tabs and switch to them. It groups tabs from the same website into a single icon and if there are multiple items in a group, clicking the button in the toolbar opens a menu, listing the open tabs. The dock can be positioned to any side of the browser window and also has an autohide feature. Groups of tabs come with three basic colors, yellow for a tab that is currently selected, green for a tab that has been opened in the background but has not been visited and blue for a tab that has changed title. Read More

Save Browsing Sessions & Sort Tabs By Multiple Criteria In Chrome

by on
Leave a comment
Awesome Window & Tab Manager allows you to apply multiple filters to Chrome's open windows and tabs. With it, you can manage and organize your browser windows into different categories, with text filtering and alphabetic sorting of tabs. It can categorizes tabs by window, domain, or category options.  The Category option sorts tabs by your bookmarked websites and sorts others as unknown. Window, domain, or category groups can be refreshed, closed or saved as a session. All windows and tabs can be saved as sessions and restored at a later time. Furthermore, multiple themes for the pop-up can also be applied from a drop-down menu. Read More

Tab Expose: Manage Open Tabs With Thumbnail Previews [Chrome]

by on
Leave a comment
Working with loads of tabs can not only be difficult, but it can also be quite confusing. Tab Expose, a Chrome extension, is for people who frequently work with a large number of tabs and find it difficult to manage them. The extension provides you with thumbnail previews of all your open tabs, and lets you quickly locate the tab you want to switch to. With it, you can also quickly close selected tabs. Moreover, the extension offers users with a (Ctrl+Shift+E) hotkey that allows you to quickly open the thumbnails in a new tab or pop-up. Two different themes can be applied to the pop-up or new tab, and the tab count can be enabled or disabled from the settings. Read More

Tile Tabs For Firefox Displays Multiple Websites In A Single Tab

by on
1
Hate switching between multiple tabs while working on something? Tile Tabs, a Firefox add-on, allows you to display multiple websites in a single tab without switching between multiple windows and tabs. Click the arrow on the button to open a context menu with tile tab options. Using this, you can tile tabs, tile new tabs, tile duplicate tabs and assign tabs. Furthermore, you can also expand tiles and choose a layout from the list. Clicking the Tile Tab, Tile New tab and Tile Duplicate Tab options opens a submenu with options to add the tab at the top, bottom, left or right of the currently selected tab. The add-on lets you display three, four or even more websites in a single tab. In order to remove a tile, click Untile Tab, and to go back to the normal mode, click the Tile Tab button once. Read More

Quickly Search Amazon Through Right-Click Context Menu [Firefox]

by on
Leave a comment
Google may be the go to search engine for a lot of different things but there are other proprietary websites like Amazon.com that people favor when looking for something to buy. As opposed to Google, Amazon and eBay are a great place to find bargains and shop online and it stands to reason that you might visit the website several times a day if you were looking to buy something. Select and search for Amazon is a Firefox add-on that allows you to instantly search your favorite items on Amazon only in a few clicks. If you're reading an article about mobile phones, or some branded accessories, just highlight specific brands or names, and find them right there on Amazon. All you have to do is highlight the text, right click it and select Search Amazon option from the context menu. Amazon will open your search in a new tab, and that's how simple it is. Read More

Announcify For Chrome Lets You Listen To Articles On Any Website

by on
3
Need to read one more article, but already feeling too exhausted? Announcify, a Google Chrome extension, can help you read and relax at the same time. It works by converting written text (on any website) to speech. Unlike other text-to-speech extensions, you don’t need to select any text, as this extension will read out the whole web page for you.You can hear your lengthy articles read out loud when you don’t feel like exercising your eyes. The extension allows you to change the speed, pitch and volume of the read-aloud voice. Read More

Desktop Is A Firefox Add-on For Customizing New Tab Page

by on
2
If you are a frequent user of Firefox, and need speedier access to your favorite websites, then you may want to check out Desktop. Desktop is a Firefox add-on that allows you to set web pages as thumbnails or widgets in the new tab page. You can place them anywhere on the page by drag & drop, and also create sub-folders. The layout you create will be displayed in every new tab you open. Visual effects can be applied by setting a background image for the new tab page in Firefox. Read More