Firefox: Preview that tab with "Tab Scope" [Screenshots warning]

[eddie]

Source: Mozilla Links

Want an easier way to identify a tab? You may have seen the variety of Firefox extensions that present thumbnails of all the currently open tabs.

An all new Firefox extension namely Tab Scope, developed by Gomita, brings a new approach that shows a thumbnail of a tab contents when you hover it. Along with the thumbnail you get basic back, forward, reload and stop buttons, another one for closing the tab and zooming in the thumbnail for a larger version.

You can customize whether you want to see the thumbnail for the current thumbnail (which just doesn’t make sense) and the size of the regular and zoomed in thumbnails.

An interesting apporach you may want to try at Mozilla Add-ons.

*addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/images/preview/4882/1
*addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/images/preview/4882/2
*addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/images/preview/4882/3

 

[..:: Free Radical ::..]

^gr8 extension.
But it will be more productive if you used TabMixPlus to switch to the tab on hovering instead of just seeing a thumbnail.

 

[eddie]

I understand what you are saying but this extension kind of provides functionality of Opera's tab thumbnails + additional functions. You can do all the clicking business without moving away from your current tab...and it makes working with those tabs really easy

 

[prateek_san]

cool find man.....

 

[..:: Free Radical ::..]

^ i got that. i missed opera for that.
There used to be this extension which showed thumbnails on the Back & forward buttons as well as history. i guess it was Reveal. Wasn't updated for Firefox 2 so i removed it. Does Tab scope do that?

 

[goobimama]

Is there extension that you guys know to show the current active tab? In my current theme "Vista Black 1.0", I can hardly differentiate between the active one tab from the others...

 

[..:: Free Radical ::..]

^ you can customize the appearance of the active tab using TabMixPlus or another useful extension, PageStyletoTab which applies the style of the page to the tab.
there is another called colored tabs.
You may do it without extensions even, using Stylish (another extension and a must have) CSS scripts

 

[rakeshishere]

Excellent Extension..!

 

[Lucky_star]

Nice find...
Thanx

 

[eddie]

Is there extension that you guys know to show the current active tab? In my current theme "Vista Black 1.0", I can hardly differentiate between the active one tab from the others...

Even though Free Radical has given you a solution but if you post it as a problem in QnA section with a screenshot then may be we will be in better position to help you

 

[thunderbird.117]

Great and cool extension. OS rocks.