Auto-Expanding Tabs

Comments (5) · August 7, 2007 at 1:14 pm · Tabbed Browsing

Don’t you hate it when you have so many tabs open you can’t see what exactly is open? Well with the FishEyeTab extension for Firefox, you can kiss those days goodbye. This extension auto-expands your tabs when you hover over one with your mouse.

An alternative to scrolling when there are many open tabs, and they become too small to see. User can zoom tab labels by moving the mouse cursor over them. Fisheye zoom is activated only when tabs occupy the whole width of the window. Close button moved to right FF 1.0 - style.

This cool animation makes it quick and easy to see which tab is which. You also don’t sacrifice much tab toolbar space either.

MeasureIt - On Screen Rulers

Comments (2) · June 15, 2007 at 7:06 am · Firefox Usability

Need to do a little on screen measuring? If you have Firefox then the MeasureIt extension should do the trick.

As you can see it delivers a brain dead simple way of seeing how big that area of your screen is. I could see this tool being really helpful for web developers or anybody else that works with graphics on the Internet.