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    Tabbing through Tabs on FireFox?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by coriolis, Sep 20, 2007.

  1. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Does it exist? What I mean is, Alt+Tab tabs through client windows, but is there a command that tabs throughs tabs opened in Firefox? Or can I program a shortcut for it? Like Ctrl+Tab or something?


    Thanks in advanced :D
     
    coriolis, Sep 20, 2007
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    The hotkeys are Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+Shift+Tab (reverse)
     
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    So it DID exist LOL! I knew it did but after Googling and looking at forums, I couldn't find an answer. Sweet, I used to use my touchpad to change tabs, now it's not needed :cool:
     
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    You might also look at the add-on (extension), TabMixPlus, as it enhances the configurability and usability of Firefox tabbed browsing.
     
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    I want to know why I used to be able to move through my tabs with the mouse scroll wheel (doing just what ctrl+tab does) on my mac and old installs of firefox, but now it just scrolls the tab bar back and forth without changing tabs. It was a very nice feature and I'd like to get it back if possible...
     
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    That feature can be forced enabled with the extension Tab Mix Plus. However, it is actually there in FF2.0 normally, however, it only activates when there are more tabs than fits the screen width.

    Example: Open 8 tabs, then move your mouse to the tab bar, you will find that scrolling on it lets you do what you want.
     
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    I think we're talking about opposite things here! I just checked to be sure, and yes, when there are enough tabs open that will not fit on the screen, scrolling the scroll wheel does make the whole tab bar scroll left or right.

    The behavior I was referring to was that the scroll wheel would actually change the active tab left or right. This is the behavior that I would like, and is currently not happening.

    I'll have to check out tab mix plus to see if that will let me do what I want.


    edit: Looks like it's doing what I want, but I never had this installed before (I had used quicktabpreftoggle or whatever, but it's no longer compatible with the new firefox versions, I think.). After turning off most of its additional features, I'm pretty happy with it.
     
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    I've used several tab browsing extensions over the years, and a couple work quite well. TabMixPlus is working the best for me right now.

    Glad to read that you got the scroll wheel working as you wanting it to, talz13.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Sep 21, 2007
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