Taboo Firefox extension saves your tabs for later

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Taboo Firefox extension saves your tabs for later

by Simon Kerbel Apr 17th 2008

Are you sick of having multiple tabs open at one time because you have numerous items that you want to read or research? The Taboo Firefox extension will help cure your "tabitis" (their term, not ours, so don't hate on it) and minimize the glut of tabs on your tab bar.

Once Taboo is installed, you'll have two new items on your toolbar. When you click the first button, Taboo will take a snapshot of any web page you are on, including session state information (such as the scroll location and any data you've entered into forms), and store it for later. You can do this with as many tabs as you need.

When you want access to one of your saved tabs, click on the other Taboo button, and Taboo will load thumbnails of your saved pages into a new tab. From there, all you need to do is click on a saved page, and it will automatically load, complete with scroll location and any text you may have entered.

The saved pages are kept through browsing sessions and shutdowns, and for as many days as you like. Taboo even has a calendar view of all your saved tabs, if you want to access pages from days or weeks ago. You can also search among your pages using the url or page title as a keyword.

Taboo requires Firefox 2, and isn't yet compatible with the Firefox 3 beta.

Tags: extension, firefox, taboo, tabs

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Doranwen said 7:40PM on 4-17-2008

Would love to use this, as I have a severe case of tabitis, but unfortunately I also depend on an extension I have installed that no longer can be installed (Mozilla Archive Format), and was never upgraded to Firefox 2 in the first place (I think the developer quit working on it). Hence I'm still using Firefox 1.5, and will probably continue to do so until I have to quit--and use Opera for my web archiving.

Quikboy said 10:55PM on 4-17-2008

That's looks surprisingly like a copy of QuickLook from IE7.

Rich said 9:48AM on 4-18-2008

I haven't tried this but the one thing I would want is sync across systems, like Foxmarks. For now, I'll just stick with putting these kinds of links into a bookmark folder called "Later". Foxmarks syncs them to all my systems, so I can then call up the list anywhere I want.

newmi said 7:55AM on 4-20-2008

So it's basically the Groups function that Maxthon has had for years with a pointless preview system and no account based web syncing, hopefully they'll improve on it so I can have a decent equivalent when I do use FF.

Jesse Andrews said 12:25AM on 4-22-2008

I've updated the extension for the latest copy of Firefox.

Also, I've commented on my blog:

http://overstimulate.com/articles/2008/04/21/taboo-screencast

about future features, such as syncing (which I've been planing for a while).

Taboo is a work in progress, and the interface and features need work. While the interface is similar to other product's features (such as QuickLook), I think the features are unique (and different than QuickLook). I think of it is a better bookmarks system (saving your state and a visual snapshot of the page)

Barry Cleave said 12:33AM on 4-22-2008

I would really like a Firefox extension that emulates the features of the Maxthon session manager at startup where you can choose only certain tabs using checkboxes.

Barry Cleave

Chun-Yu Lin said 8:47PM on 6-22-2008

i second this!

this function was in Avant browser a while back. i'd also love to have this on FF!!

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