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FaviconizeTab: "Minimize" tabs in Firefox
by Jordan Running Nov 14th 2006 at 4:30PM
Oh, how cool. FaviconizeTab is an add-on for Firefox that does just one thing: It shrinks tabs of your choosing down to the bare minimum: Just the icon. While tab titles are handy to have, when it's a tab you have open all day like your RSS reader or (if you're me) Joe's Goals, the title is inessential and just takes up space. FaviconizeTab frees up that space, which gives the other dozen tabs you have open more elbow room. In its Options you can choose to activate it with a double-click, Ctrl-click, Alt-click, or Shift-click, or just use the context menu, and if you have Firefox set up to restore your previous session's tabs on start-up, FaviconizeTab will remember which tabs should be Faviconized. One feature I wish it had is to specify that certain bookmarks should always open "Faviconized"--maybe next version.
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abhijeet said 5:19PM on 11-14-2006
I shrunk my Gmail tab, but soon discovered that I missed the unread message number that shows up on the tab.
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van said 5:38PM on 11-14-2006
Great find, this'll go well with my Gmail and Google Reader tabs! But will it still allow the parenthesised number (the one that indicates I have new mail, or new feeds to read) to show on the tab? If not, this is basically useless to me.
BTW, you screwed up the link to the Add-ons page.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3780/
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van said 5:47PM on 11-14-2006
Update: Nope, doesn't allow the parenthesised number for your Gmail inbox count or feed count to be displayed. So it's useless in that aspect, unless you're inclined to check those tabs all the time to see if you have anything new. And yes, I know I could use Gmail notifier, but I don't like it.
So this might be handy for tabs that I don't want to close but have no dynamically updating info on them, but for Gmail and Reader, it's next to useless.
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Similar said 7:18AM on 11-15-2006
Ah, if only there were an Add-on for Firefox that would let you individually resize tabs by pulling on the sides of each one.
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Steven said 9:10AM on 11-15-2006
Beautiful
I only have 2 1600x1200 monitors at work, so space is at a premium. This is lovely. Wish I had known about it earlier.
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Pasha said 10:11AM on 11-15-2006
"I only have 2 1600x1200"
Being sarcastic, are we? -_^
Anyway, great extension, but needs a little more work, or another extension/gresemonkey script for reasons mentioned above.
What i have in mind is a greasmonkey script that would check the title of page. This way what you can do, is monitor that title, and if it changes, start flashing the favicon, or replace it.
I looked at it for a short period of time, and it seems to be pretty easy to implement. I think i will try it sometime this week.
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Echilon said 5:47AM on 11-16-2006
It's a shame it doesn't remember which tabs were Iconized when you close and re-open them.
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