Tree Style Tabs in Firefox Browser…
With the advent of lots of wide-screen monitors, vertical real estate is now at a premium. This is especially true in your Internet browser. Well, yesterday I discovered a Firefox add-on that I am just simply loving. The name of that add-on? Tree Style Tab. It’s a fairly innocuous sounding add-on name, but it does just what it says. It replaces the tab bar along the top of your browser with one that runs down the side. I mean, now that I use a wide-screen monitor I can afford to give up a little of my horizontal real estate after all. And when I have umpteen tabs open (as I quite often do), I can actually see and read which one is which. Amazing! What’s more, if I open up another tab as a result of a link in a tab already open, it indents the tab so I can easily see it. That’s where the ‘tree’ part of the name comes from.
Use of it takes a little getting used to, so please stick with it. What I mean by that is that to close a tab, you automatically go to your tab bar - which isn’t there anymore! You have to re-train yourself to go to the sidebar and delete it from there instead.
You can have the sidebar condensed down to just ‘favicons’ if you want to, and then you’re hardly using any real estate at all. Pretty good! So now I’m not worried about having 15 tabs open at the same time - I can actually see what they are named and ones that were ’spawned’ from others are grouped logically too.
Lastly there is also a complete ‘options’ tab set available so that you can configure it just the way you want it, although I have to say, the default settings work just fine for me.
So, if you have a wide-screen monitor and don’t mind giving up a little bit of horizontal real estate, give Tree Style Tabs a try.
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