Upcoming Build of Firefox 4 Getting Tab Candy
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Mmm... Candy.
If you're an internet power user and you have lots of tabs open in your Firefox, you'll know how arduous it can be to continuously scroll through them to find what you want.
To help manage tabs, developers at Mozilla have developed Tab Candy, a very slick and easy way to sort and switch tabs. The first version was in the special build of Minefield, but the idea has been so well received that it's getting integrated into an upcoming version of Firefox 4 beta.
Mike Beltzner tweeted: "Just approved Tab Candy to land on mozilla-central later today. Great work by the team to get it there. More to do, but this is a big hurdle"
Check out what Tab Candy is all about in the video below:
Firefox Tab Candy
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Browser tabs are annoying, and I have them completely disabled
I know that Fx and Opera did the theme at the same time, but I like variety.
I'll admit that my current OPERA browser has 10 tabs. when I'm done in about 5 mins, it'll be down to 5 and I shut down. Opera has a SPEED DIAL - visual bookmark for your top 9~24 sites of your choice as well as keeping tabs in memory without bugging you about it.
Tab Candy... looks useless for more people, but a MUST HAVE for those with 25+ tabs. But with typical users... 2~4 tabs is overwhelming...
To each his own, but multiple instances of firefox use much more RAM than a single with multiple tabs, and depending on the OS all the browsers are not necessarily grouped together on the TASK BAR, or it may require more clicks to change between tabs. Granted you get the benefit of Alt-Tab, but with Windows 7 separate tabs can be alt-tabbed to IIRC, if the program supports the new API
I'm really worried about my two or three browser windows using up my 4 gigs of ram...
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/opera-10.60-internet-explorer-9-safari-5,2680-10.html
Tab Candy IS interesting feature but need to work on memory release like Google Chrome to work efficiently...
P.S. there's already a "Tab Candy"...it's called Firefox Girl...
Tab Candy is just a desktop for tabs.