iantomkins.com » windows 7 http://iantomkins.com Just my thoughts Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:56:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Firefox Tab Previews on Windows 7 http://iantomkins.com/2010/01/firefox-tab-previews-windows-7/ http://iantomkins.com/2010/01/firefox-tab-previews-windows-7/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:55:53 +0000 Ian http://iantomkins.com/?p=138 Users of Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 will likely have noticed that the new Taskbar enables users to see previews of all the browser tabs currently open. Whilst this is not a feature that everyone will appreciate some may find it useful because it enable finding a particular tab very quick, of course if you have a lot of tabs this may just be more clutter.

Version 3.6 of Mozilla Firefox has just shipped with some great new tab preview features, however most of these are turned off by default. To find and enable the new features you need to get to the advanced configuration page by typing about:config into the address bar. This will produce a warning page notifying you that you should only continue if you are sure of what you are doing, once you have promised to be careful type the word previews into the filter box to find the relevant settings.

Firefox about:config window

Firefox tab preview options

There are three options available to be turned on:

browser.allTabs.previews
This option adds an extra button to the right hand end of the tab bar which pops up a list of tabs with previews and a search box.
browser.ctrlTab.previews
The ctrlTab option changes <CTRL>+<TAB> behaviour to use a style new tab preview screen when you have 3 or more tabs open.
browser.taskbar.previews.enable
The taskbar option enables Windows 7 taskbar tab previews.

To enable any of the options simply double click on it and the value will change to true. Additionally the line will be made bold to indicate that the value has been changed from it’s default setting.

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