Firfox Showcase: Simplifies tabbed browsing

More & more people are switching to Firefox & enjoying tabbed browsing with favorite keyboard shortcut CNTRL + T. I am the one who opens too many tabs on Firefox & get’s confused. Firefox Showcase is a plugin for firefox which eases browsing on multiple tabs. Firefox Showcase showcases all the opened tabs in thumbnail form which helps you to switch to any tab you want quickly.

Firefox Showcase has different keyboard shortcuts to present the showcase as follows:

F12: Showcases all tabs in a new pop up window, window automatically disappears after selecting a tab.

CNTRL+ALT+T: Showcases all tabs in a new tab, tab closes automatically after selecting a tab.

CNTRL+ALT+S: Showcases all tabs in sidebar & remains even after selecting a tab.

I find showing tabs in sidebar as I have a wide screen monitor, might not be good if you have a normal monitor. See following screen shots with all modes:

Showcase in a window

Showcase in Sidebar

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Google has stopped working on Browser Sync for Firefox. That means you can’t have Google Sync to work on the latest version of Firfox, i.e, Firefox 3. For those who don’t know about Google Sync, it syncs your browsing history, bookmarks…on different installations of Firefox! If you have Firefox on two or more computers, you can sync all your browsing data by installing Google Browser Sync addon for Firefox. But, now Google has discontinued development on Browser Sync for Firefox. I think this is one of the feature which browser should have inbuilt like in opera 9.5 (latest version) has it!

Foxmarks is a Firefox plugin, a good alternative for Google Browser Sync. Similar to Google Browser Sync, Foxmarks also saves all your browser changes in it’s server. You will have to install Foxmarks plugin for Firefox, which is also available for Firefox 3! If you are using this first time, you will be guided through a wizard to create a new account. Once done, it starts syncing bookmarks in the back end. Now install this addon in all other computers which you are running Firfox & want to sync bookmarks, give your login & password which was created first time. Now changes in bookmarks you make on any computer gets reflected everywhere! Install Foxmarks from www.foxmarks.com