Firefox addon series: ctrl-tab, tab switcher with previews

[clevin]

download from here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5244

what does it do?

Ctrl+Tab navigation for Firefox tabs, similar to Alt+Tab on various operating systems.

features

* Thumbnail previews
* Releasing Tab and pressing it again moves to the next preview
* Holding Tab scrolls through the previews quickly
* Releasing Ctrl selects the desired tab
* Shift+Ctrl+Tab inverts the scrolling direction

Note
1. you can press F4 or click button on right end of tabbar to bring up all tab preview. or Ctrl-Tab to bring up scroll switcher when you have more than 3 tabs open.

2. This might eventually be added into firefox 3.1.

Two pics: all tab preview, and scroll switcher with 3 previews.

 

[clevin]

This has been landed on gecko 1.9.1 trunk, which means it will be a default function of firefox 3.1.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Yay! Shiira has a feature very similar to this. Glad to see it making its way to Firefox as well.

 

[clevin]

nice, I like preview alot, but my beloved addon "reveal" was abandoned by developer long time ago, and I never really try others such as fox show case etc.

There is still a small glitch, in OSX, the shortcut for "show all" isn't working, hopefully they will fix it soon.