Show all your tabs in a single window

Tabs are one of the best things to happen to Internet browsing in a long time, but there are now ways to make them even more useful.

One of them is the Firefox plug-in Firefox Showcase, which presents a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar. Rather than just clicking on your tabs to see what you’ve got open (particularly fruitless if you’ve got multiple tabs open and can’t read the tab headings anymore), it gives you a way of seeing instantly, what you have open.

The plug-in includes a search bar that filters the thumbnails according to topic. So if you’ve got five tabs open on football, search for “football” and it will reveal instantly which tabs relate to that topic. Probably the most useful aspect of Firefox Showcase is the sidebar – rather than having tabs open, you can have each window open in a small thumbnail down the side of your screen which makes it much easier to see what you’ve got open.

However, the problem with this is that by displaying every page that you’ve got open, even as thumbnails, it does tend to vastly increase the load Firefox puts on your RAM so you may experience some instability issues. However, to decrease this risk you can run Firefox Showcase in “local” mode, which only displays the thumbnails for your current Firefox window as oppose to “global” which displays thumbnails for all those open Firefox windows.

Firefox Showcase is a radical new alternative to relying on tabs that makes it considerably easier to see what you’ve got open – just keep the amount of tabs you have open to a minimum.

Fixed configuration panel in Firefox 4Fixed bookmarking from Showcase windowFixed zoom in Linux when scroll is present

Changes

• Fixed configuration panel in Firefox 4Fixed bookmarking from Showcase windowFixed zoom in Linux when scroll is present