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<blockquote>Originally posted by Jesper<hr>I used to use Tabbrowser Extensions which was great and provided a metric assload of configurability. The downside was that it's a bit of a memory hog - a result of the author literally rewriting the entire tabbed browsing part - "tabbrowser". But now, someone has thought hard and come up with the fact that "hey, we have these fifty small-purpose tabbed browsing extensions, but wouldn't it be neat if we just made one extension with most of the features in TBE instead?", and so they did.

<a href="http://hemiolapei.free.fr/divers/tabmix/tabmix.html.en">Tab Mix</a> is a kick-ass extension that makes tabbed browsing more flexible. It can help spawn multiple rows when the tabs overflow (like TBE), it can do drag and drop reordering of tabs (like TBE), even combine these (UNlike TBE) and it also has lots of setting to tweak like how to behave in the way of spawning new tabs or windows depending on what link or bookmark you click or URL you enter - less than TBE, but I find that I don't miss the extra options because it behaves the same way now as when I had TBE installed. And since it doesn't have to rewrite the tab component, it's lighter and Firefox, while not exactly slow before, is definitely snappier now.

The home page of the extension warns that it may be instable, but I've been using it for a few days now and it hasn't crashed once. I highly recommend this extension. If you are using Firefox, install this extension now. It's that good.<hr></blockquote>

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Jesper Posts: 2235/2390	0.1.3 is now out "sharp".
Ailure Posts: 8330/11162	Annoying how it forces the tab bar to always show... well at least that was a chanable setting, so know it dosen't do that. I hope devolopers see some of this extension features, becuse honestly... some of it needs to be in-built.
Jesper Posts: 2208/2390	It has lost my "open links from apps" preference twice, but that's it.
Zem Posts: 882/1107	I had an extension for 1.0 PR which was expressly for the purpose of reordering tabs, but I didn't check for it again when I upgraded. Also, this time Tab Mix didn't lose my preferences. I know it did it twice before, so maybe it's restarting, or maybe it was just being moody and will not do it anymore. That would be nice.
Tarale Posts: 1534/2720	Nice extension. Installed it at work. Haven't had a chance to play with it much yet, but it's nice. I like being able to reorder my tabs.
HyperLamer Posts: 3610/8210	It's not doing that for me. I had some trouble getting it (and most other extensions) to work right at first though; all the list boxes were really small and empty and the buttons didn't work. It started working after re-opening the browser a few times though. Originally posted by Jesper Gee, I wish someone could atleast have had the decency to ask you to try it because he knew you'd like it. OH WAIT! Hey, I told you I would. I just didn't get around to it right away.
Zem Posts: 877/1107	I've found a problem with this extension in particular, though since no one else has mentioned it it might just be me. It doesn't save my preferences between browsing sessions. =( It reverts to the default every time I start the browser.
DarkSlaya Posts: 3481/4249	HH: Great you were able to install it, and I will confirm that it's not Proximitron's fault, as it work fine for me
Jesper Posts: 2204/2390	Originally posted by HyperHacker installs Firefox Damn, I shoulda done this a long time ago. This looks nice... Like a whole new browser, but everything I liked about Mozilla is still there. (Makes me wonder if the last version I tried even was Firefox... It was nowhere near as good as this.) The ability to install an extension just by clicking it, combined with the security of having to add the site to a white list first and some warnings here and there, is fricken awesome. Gee, I wish someone could atleast have had the decency to ask you to try it because he knew you'd like it. OH WAIT!
HyperLamer Posts: 3591/8210	Thanks, that worked great. (Except for one, which appears to have a broken link entirely...) Firefox now looks like some of the worst spyware-infested copies of IE I've seen - except everything in it is a safe and useful item I added myself. Now THAT is nice.
Surlent Posts: 792/1077	HyperHacker, you might try to save the .xpi onto your harddrive, having the containing folder and Firefox on the same screen, while its Extension Manager also is opened and visible. Now drag the xpi into the Extension Manager. If it installs, you are on the good side. If it messes up Firefox (should not do that usually, as FF refuses to install outdated extensions anyway since 1.0 PR), delete the extensions.rdf in the applications/userdata folder within "Mozilla". This method also works when the installation process doesn't work on a website but the .xpi itself is okay normally.
HyperLamer Posts: 3590/8210	I've always thought that myself. It does the same with Proxomitron disabled... I've found that going to the 'More Info' page and clicking the Install link there works for most of them, but some still do it (though the URL doesn't say undefined).
FreeDOS Posts: 1206/1657	damn... you're just a magnet to bad luck, aren't you? all the extensions I've tried, including the Dictionary Search, work. Is it because of Proxomitron, perhaps? I've ran into a few problems with it on few occassions.
HyperLamer Posts: 3581/8210	installs Firefox Damn, I shoulda done this a long time ago. This looks nice... Like a whole new browser, but everything I liked about Mozilla is still there. (Makes me wonder if the last version I tried even was Firefox... It was nowhere near as good as this.) The ability to install an extension just by clicking it, combined with the security of having to add the site to a white list first and some warnings here and there, is fricken awesome. Anyway, I figured I'd go look at some extensions, and this one caught my eye, but when I try to install it it says it's not a valid XPI package. (Note the 'os=windows' in the URL; it used to be 'os=linux', but apparently that wasn't the problem. ) This happens with a few others as well, some of which truncate the URL to 'https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/undefined'. (This happens with every extension under Download Tools, and several others. Very annoying to say the least. ) [edit] Oh, and no, this isn't the only reason I installed it. It helped though. (And the window icon works, yay!)
Zem Posts: 876/1107	"Does it have an option to make it that any time any program tries to launch a new browser window and one's already open, the link opens in a new tab instead?" Yes.
HyperLamer Posts: 3578/8210	You can... re-order the tabs... I wish my taskbar could do that. Does it have an option to make it that any time any program tries to launch a new browser window and one's already open, the link opens in a new tab instead? (Actually I think I found that in Mozilla's about:config, but testing is needed. ) If so, I think I'm gonna spooge myself. But what would be really cool is if you could drag a tab onto the taskbar and have it launched in a new window. Sometimes multiple windows is useful...
Zem Posts: 869/1107	Originally posted by Xkeeper Yet I bet you still can't move the location of the tabs around to different areas of the screen.
Someguy Posts: 241/397	I gotta go here more often, this is a great extention, but I don't know enough websites to take advantage of it yet. Well, that's my fault, not the extention's.
Colin Posts: 7199/11302	Thanks for pointing this extension out, Jesper - I was looking for something along these lines, especially for the tab ordering aspect. Works like a charm and it's quite customizable to boot.
Jesper Posts: 2159/2390	Originally posted by Xkeeper Yet I bet you still can't move the location of the tabs around to different areas of the screen.
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