Friday, February 27, 2009

Vertical Tabs in Firefox are the new hotness

If you've got a big enough screen (and big enough for me is 1024x768) you might want to consider "tree style" vertical tabs in Firefox. I don't think it'll fit everyone's taste, but it suits me fine. Opera makes it pretty easy to mess with your browser's UI, but I wanted the power of Firefox[1]; luckily it seems like someone else feels the same way.

So I often have a dozen or more tabs open; having them open at the top of the browser makes them more difficult to navigate. The Tree Style Tab addon will add the tabs to the left side of your browser window in a tree. So if you open a tab from another tab, that tab becomes part of the tree. Pretty awesome.

[caption id="attachment_4216" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Tabs at the top"]Tabs at the top[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_4215" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Tabs in a tree"]Tabs in a tree[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_4214" align="alignnone" width="522" caption="The Tree Style Tab addon"]The Tree Style Tab addon[/caption]

Points of Interest

Footnotes
[1] I really like Opera, and it's amazing to use

Tuesday, February 3, 2009