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New tab switching added for Firefox 3.1

Jul. 16, 2008 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

Mozilla Links reports on an interesting new feature for Firefox 3.1:

As announced before, tab switching is getting a dramatic update for Firefox 3.1 in both visual and behavior.

Press Ctrl + Tab (or Shift + Ctrl + Tab) and you are presented with tab thumbnails and titles with the most recently visited ones first so you can more easily determine which tab you want to go, have the one you most probably want to go closer, and as a result get to it faster. Hold Ctrl pressed and keep pressing Tab to see the thumbnails smoothly scroll to the left while the status bar displays the tab web address.

 

Ctrl-Tab, a Firefox extension developed by Dao Gotwald, that has served as a prototype for this change is available from Mozilla Add-ons.

Thanks Sebastian.

Related: Firefox 3.1 (Shiretoko) planned features draft

Discuss this Article 8

lotsamystuff
on Jul 16, 2008
This browser just keeps getting better and better. Leaves everything else in the dust (well...Opera looks nicer, but that's about it).
mikegalos@msn.com
on Jul 16, 2008
Wow. Firefox announces that in a future release they'll clone the Quick Tabs feature that's already present in the public beta of IE8. Somehow, I fail to be impressed with cloning as "innovation".
mikegalos@msn.com
on Jul 16, 2008
Oops. My bad... That should read: Wow. Firefox announces that in a future release they'll clone the Quick Tabs feature that's been in IE since IE7. (I had to go to an old computer to check since this machine only has IE8, Firefox, Opera and Safari) Somehow, I'm even less impressed with cloning as "innovation".
da-chief
on Jul 16, 2008
Ok for the life of me.. I have upgraded.. But all it does is TAB between each tab, I don't get any thumbnails??? Running Vista Premium home or what ever.. ;-) Firefox 3.1?? Am I doing something wrong?? CTRL-TAB???
sharp65
on Jul 16, 2008
You need to be running the latest nightly builds. If you have more than two tabs open just press ctrl+tab and you can see a thumbnail of all your current tabs and switch between them. And the comment about copying is extremely silly, everything is "copying" now a days. Did IE have tabs before IE7? Who really cares.
kalewallace
on Jul 16, 2008
There was an add-on that did this very thing. It was a little buggy, but very nice. I think it was called Reveal, but the guy who wrote the add-on must've fallen off the face of the earth because this is still 1.x compatible and no more.
da-chief
on Jul 16, 2008
hmm.. I have 3.1 and it still is not working.. I checked everything under the hood not sure why??? I upgraded today with Check for updates and it got me here.. So to make it clear. .. This is not a plug in but a "FEATURE" of Firefox 3.1 correct?? Thanks! D/C
Dipsh t Admin
on Jul 17, 2008
da-chief, I think you are confusing 3.01 with 3.1. 3.01 was and will be delivered via the automatic updates feature. 3.1 is the next version, which must be downloaded off the nightly builds section, at which point your browser will be called Minefield.

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