There is your functionality in a nutshell.  Now, I can not really think of why you might want to rotate the active tab after X number of minutes, but I am sure this will come in handy for somebody out there.

The interface is pretty simple, and setting up your rotation time can be done like so:

You can pick up this odd, but maybe helpful add-on from the Firefox Add-ons website.  Go ahead, if you like this thing – let me know in the comments how exactly you are using it.

Tired of seeing your tabs under your navigation or bookmark toolbars? Maybe you just want to see how Firefox would look with tabs on the top?  With the Firefox extension, Tabs on Top – you can easily move your browser tabs to the top of the screen.

Once this add-on for Firefox is installed, your tab bar will work more like its Chrome browser cousin from Google.  Also, if you have TabMixPlus – you can use the multi row feature to have multiple rows of tabs across the top of the Firefox browser window.

You can pick up the Tabs on Top add-on for Firefox on the official Firefox Add-ons web site.

This add-on for Firefox really is your proverbial utility knife when it comes to controlling, editing or optimizing your browser tabs for better performance.

Not for the faint of heart, this add-on really lets you control every little aspect you would ever need to change in your tabs.  It really takes the best aspects out of some of the more popular tab-related extensions out there, and bundles them all into one handy add-on for the Firefox browser.

Here are just a few of the features it provides:

• Open Bookmarks/History/URL/Search in new tabs: left-click/enter in new foreground tabs, middle-click in new background tabs, ctrl-click/alt-enter in current tab
• Open new tabs next to current tab, Open duplicate tabs next to original tab
• Reuse current/last/all blank tabs, Auto-close redundant blank tabs
• Focus adjacent unread/last selected/last opened/left tab after closing current tab
• Highlight current/unread tabs
• Ctrl-Tab to navigate tabs in most recently used order, Ctrl-Left/Right Arrow in sequential order
• Undo Close Tab button
• openAllInTab/loadAllInBackground/loadAllInForeground statusbar buttons
• Tab clicking options, including left/middle/right/double/ctrl/alt/shift-click on tab/tab bar/new tab button
• Duplicate/Protect/Lock/Faviconize/Hide/Pin Tab

You can pick up the Tab Utilities add-on from the Firefox Add-ons web site.  If you are looking for the best add-on, when it comes to controlling how the tabs work in Firefox, it is hard to say there is any extension with more features out there.

Sometimes we all go a little tab-happy when it comes to our Internet browsing ways.  You might be browsing around, one lazy Friday afternoon, and before you know it – you have twenty open tabs and then decide, "hey, maybe I should get back to work!".  Well, have no fear, because I can get all your tabs closed in one click or two.

The Close All Tabs (Reloaded) extension for Firefox will add a button to your toolbar to close all the open tabs.  You also have two configurations that come into play with this simple add-on.  You can choose whether the browser’s home page should be loaded, or if you want to see the warning about closing multiple tabs.

After installing Close All Tabs (Reloaded), the button is not instantly added to the toolbar.  You will need to customize the toolbar, and select where you need the button to be.   You can pick up this great browser add-on over at the Firefox Add-ons web site.

If you do not want to add another extension, you can also close all your tabs by following these simple steps.

1. Right-click on the tab bar in Firefox
2. Select "Close Other Tabs"

This will, in turn, close all the other tabs that were open, other than the tab that you clicked on when right-clicking the tab bar in Firefox.  It is a simple, yet sometimes overlooked, Firefox fact. 

We are all looking for ways to get more done in the browser visually, and at times I would like to look at two tabs at the same time.  Looking for a way to tile my tabs, I found a great add-on that does the job really well.  The Tile Tabs add-on for Firefox does exactly what you think it would – it tiles your tabs in the browser.

Now, dividing up your tabs within 24 new frames and trying to check them all out would be a ‘bit crazy.  However, I could see this add-on being helpful with viewing two or three pages at once.

Here is a little more about the add-on from the developers:

Tile Tabs allows an unlimited number of tabs to be tiled within the Firefox tabbed browser content area. The Firefox tabbed browser paradigm is fully maintained. The tiled layout is achieved by presentational changes rather than functional changes. All features (menu commands, url bar, search bar, tabs buttons) continue to operate as normal.

Excited about dividing up your Firefox browser?  You can pick up the Tile Tabs add-on for Firefox on the Firefox Add-ons web site.

I can tell you from experience, having too many tabs open can be a real pain.  On occasion though, it is something you have to do, so you might as well find an add-on that will help you navigate through your tabs more effectively.  That is where TooManyTabs comes into play.

This great extension for Firefox can store as many tabs as you like.  How so?  Well, it adds extra tab rows to Firefox.  Rather than wasting your PC’s RAM, you can store your textra tabs in the other rows, remove them from being seen by your PC’s RAM and restore them all qhen you need them again.

This tutorial does a great job at explaining some of the basics of TooManyTabs:

Are you a tab-a-holic?  Then you need to at least give the TooManyTabs add-on for Firefox a shot.  Some of the other features include:

• Color coded tabs, pinned tabs (like perma-tabs), view tab history, restore recently closed tabs
• Customizable & multiple rows for tab storage
• Backup & restore features, tabs can be transferred across machines easily

You can download the TooManyTabs add-on for Firefox on the Firefox Add-ons web site or learn more about it on it’s official web site.

Need to duplicate a tab in Firefox, so you can have the same content loaded up in two Firefox windows?  Not sure, you could just copy and paste the URL into both browsers – but who has the time?  I have an easier solution to fix this problem.

The answer is the Duplicate This Tab add-on for Firefox.  With this extension installed, You can detach a tab from one Firefox window, load it up in a new one and keep the tab loaded up in the old Firefox window. 

Now for those of you who say, "Firefox already does that!" let me set you straight.  Currently, when you left-click on a tab and drag it down and then let go of the left mouse button, it does detach and create a new Firefox window. 

What makes this add-on special is it keeps that same web page loaded in the older Firefox browsing window too, rather than just moving it to the new Firefox window.  This add-on gives you the following options:

• Duplicate Tab
• Duplicate Tab to New Window
• Detach Tab
• or Merge Windows

You can pick up the Duplicate This Tab add-on from the Firefox Add-ons web site.

Who doesn’t want a Firefox add-on that counts the number of tabs that are open? Tab Counter is the name, and counting tabs is its game.

Rather than hunting down the X to close your current tab, what if all you had to do was wish upon a star, and then right click anywhere on the tab you wish to shut down?  I will let you know how to get that done, without the need of the “wishing upon a star” part.

The add-on you want to grab to get this done is Rights To Close.  This extension enables a user to close the current tab by simply right double-clicking, with your mouse, anywhere on the web page.   This cleverly named add-on works very well, and gets the job done. 

It is a tiny extension, but it is really handy to have.  You can pick up Rights To Close on the Firefox Add-ons web site.

When you load up a dozen or more tabs all at once, Firefox can slow down to a crawl.  Now, you can either choose to stop overwhelming Firefox with too many tabs or you can grab this helpful add-on for Firefox that will only load up the tab you need at the time, with multiple tabs still available. 

Just put it on your Bar Tab.

Here is how the magic happens.  When you click on a link that is going to be opened in a new tab, Firefox would normally go ahead and load up that content in the background.  What BarTab changes is the fact that it prevents Firefox from loading any content until you actually click over to the tab, saving yourself some resources and wait time.  You only pull up the data from the web page when you need it. 

If you restart Firefox a lot with multiple tabs open, you get one more bonus.  It will work on a browser restart too, which means Firefox will be coming back a lot quicker. 

You can pick up the Bar Tab extension from the Firefox Add-ons web site.