What do you use the tabs for?
I use tabs to go back and forth between various windows without having to have them at the bottom. It is the best feature of Firefox, IMO. For instance, if you are on your home page, and want to view bloglines, hit the button and your window automatically switches to it in the same window, and your home page and bloglines both show as two tabs at the top. Then when you open a post you see in bloglines, it automatically opens in the same window and adds a third tab at the top.
If you open another post from bloglines, it opens in your window, and adds a fourth tab. You bounce back and forth by simply clicking the tabs. You can keep the tabs to a minimum by closing unused ones, or by clicking on the new link and sliding up to an open tab. It will usurp that tab selection and open your new selection in the same tab. Make sure you have the extension, "Tab browser preferences," added to FireFox.
When you are reading an article, and it has a link you would like open, you right click the link and hit "open in new tab." You can then wait until you are done reading to switch to it, or hit the tab.
Everything is right in front of you, you never have to figure out which window you want to be in. I would suggest that when you check for Firefox extensions, you add all the ones they list as favorites. They won't get in your way if you don't use them. |
