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Make your Firefox more like Google Chrome with Pin Tabs
One of the slick visual elements of Google's Chrome browser is pin tabs. They're those compact tabs that're only as wide as a favicon, and they save a ton of space in your tab bar. You could point out that Firefox doesn't have this feature, but I'd give you the Firefox fanatic's standard answer: there's an add-on for that! For Chrome-style mini-tabs in Firefox, grab the Pin Tab extension.Pinning a tab using ctrl-click shrinks it and moves it to the left of your tab bar. A pinned tab is preserved across all sessions, and you can't accidentally upset it using the address bar. If you enter a new URL while a pinned tab is selected, that URL opens in a new tab instead. You can pin tabs by dragging them to the left of the tab bar, and unpin them by dragging them to the right. Pinned tabs save a ton of space, since they're several times smaller than regular ones, so this add-on is ideal for those who have dozens of sites open at once.
[via gHacks]
UPDATE: The developer of this add-on seems to have taken it down for right now.
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Dave Forster said 11:30AM on 11-05-2009
you can upset a pinned tab by hitting the Home button though
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jkroeder said 11:16AM on 11-16-2009
There's also the faviconizetab extension by Kyosuke Takayama that's actually been out for a while
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3780
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blaszta said 1:03PM on 11-05-2009
+1 for faviconize
has been using it for couple years I think...
Jakurb said 1:26PM on 11-05-2009
Yeah, I've been using Faviconize Tab for a while.
Is Pin Tab better or something?
Mike said 2:58PM on 11-05-2009
What theme is that being used in the screenshot?
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Saint Seminole said 11:46AM on 11-06-2009
Interestingly, I'm using the latest version of Chrome, and this feature is nowhere to be found... So, can we say that Firefox had it first? :-)
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dbaland said 10:59PM on 11-06-2009
Link in article does not bring you to pin tabs on firfox website
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