Questions tagged [browser-tabs]
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Determine which tab in Firefox is using CPU resources?
Is there anything in the current Firefox similar to the Task Manager in Google Chrome? (Shift + Esc)
There is something that occasionally takes up enough CPU to make Firefox unresponsive - but with ...
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Is there a method to export the URLs of the open tabs of a Firefox window?
If I have a Firefox window open that contains 10 tabs, is there a way in Firefox or by a plug-in to get the URLs of those 10 tabs as a text file or some other format?
Right now if I want to do this I ...
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How to Make Chrome Not Load Tabs Until They are Selected?
I have over 20 tabs opened in Chrome and need to restart browser from time to time. This browser does not have option similar to Firefox's "Do not load tabs until selected" loading tabs only after ...
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How to get tab count in Chrome desktop without app/extension?
How can I view the number of open tabs in Chrome (desktop) without installing an app or extension?
On Chrome for iOS it's easy, just look in the top right for the number:
I have seen this question ...
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Is there a way to copy URLs from all open tabs in a Google Chrome (or other browser) window into an email?
Are there any Google Chrome extensions that would allow you to copy the URLs of all open tabs into the clipboard, or even better, to send them to a new Gmail message?
My personal scenario is house ...
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How can I transfer all of my open tabs in Chrome in Android to Chrome on a desktop?
I know that I can go to history section in desktop and there I can locate the history of android tabs separately and then can open the tabs one by one.
But I want to transfer all of my current ...
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Disable ability to pull a tab off of Chrome
I'm so sick of mistakenly pulling my Chrome tabs out of the tab list when i click on it, and having it open in a new window. I'm always pulling them off, then having to drop them back.
Does anyone ...
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Firefox - always show the tabs in fullscreen mode
Full screen can be more fun if I can always see my tabs (by default you can see when you hover your mouse around that area) and my taskbar.
I know how to make taskbar always appear. Any idea how to ...
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Changing Firefox Tab Cycle Order
When you use Ctrl-Tab in Firefox, you move through tabs in the order that they are listed in the tab bar at the top of the window. I would prefer that when I use Ctrl-Tab the next tab that I switch ...
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How can I unload a tab manually?
Firefox has a setting "Don't load tabs until selected" (see How do I make Firefox 13 Load All My Tabs on Startup or when Resuming Reload). I like that behaviour.
I am searching for a way to "deload"/...
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Keyboard shortcut to open new tab next to current tab in Google Chrome
Is there a keyboard shortcut (or is there a way to create one without any extensions or third-party stuff) that opens a new tab next to the currently open tab?
For example, let's say I have 10 tabs ...
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How to disable the close (X) button on Google Chrome tabs?
Is there any way to make Chrome not display an X button for each tab?
I have two reasons for this:
When I have many tabs open, the X buttons take a lot of screen real estate and make the tab titles ...
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How can I make a tab in Firefox falsely believe that it still has the focus?
In Firefox I would like to pass to another tab while an ad is playing
in the current tab, but the pesky thing will pause when its tab loses the focus.
I would like to trick the ad to believe that it ...
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How to easily transfer tabs from one PC to another?
I'm logged in with the same Chrome account at two laptops sitting next to each other. Often I want to transfer tabs/windows from one to the other. I could copy&paste the URLs to a .txt file, then ...
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Why does CTRL-click not open some links in a new tab?
Sometimes while browsing, I'll ctrl-click a link to open it in a new tab. However, instead of opening in a new tab, it gets clicked and browsed to in the current tab as if I had clicked it normally ...
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How to find out which Firefox tab is using most CPU or memory? [duplicate]
There are times when the Firefox responds reluctantly. And it is not only when I have opened many tabs. But there are cases when I have opened as many as 20 tabs and Firefox is working fine and there ...
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Chrome Bookmarks to default in new Tab?
Is there a way to get my bookmarks (wired to my bookmarks bar) to open
them (by default) into a new tab?
It seems to me that this would be a terrific option to build in. I am all about reducing ...
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Disable/enable the proxy on a tab by tab basis in Firefox
Is it possible to disable/enable the proxy connection on a tab-by-tab basis in Firefox?
I can access the internet with the proxy enabled, and I can access our internal servers with the proxy disabled,...
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Stop Chrome from reloading tabs
Recently Chrome updated and since then every time I switch between tabs I have to wait for the activated tab to refresh. Is there a way to tell Chrome to quit hibernating inactive tabs?
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How do I make ALL pop ups in Firefox open in a new tab rather then a new window?
I'm running Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows 7. And I still got some pop ups in new Windows (particularly the problem always reoccurs at one website)
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How to merge 2 windows in Firefox
How can i merge 2 windows in Firefox Quantum, i.e. move all tabs of these 2 windows to 1 window?
I have many Firefox windows open and want to merge 2 of them. So far Web searches merely turn up ...
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How can I search for text in all tabs in Firefox?
I have a number of opened tabs and I want to search for a word in all of them (just as you would do in any decent editor on you desktop).
I found an extension Find In Tabs, but its outdated and doesn'...
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How to change behavior of ctrl+t in Firefox to open new tabs next to current tab
I tested browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent in about:config but this works only for opening new tabs using mouse middle button.
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List open Firefox tabs from the command line?
Is there a way to list the open tabs in Firefox from the command line?
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Multi-row tab bar in Firefox Quantum
Firefox Quantum breaks tab mix plus and tab kit. Is there any way to get a multi-row tab bar in Firefox Quantum?
If possible, I'm looking for a supported, stable solution, that is unlikely to break ...
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How to open multiple URLs in Chrome/Firefox and then save them individually?
If I have a .txt file containing a list of URLs, how can I get Chrome or Firefox to open them, one URL per tab and then save the page in each tab separately?
Any platform will do: Windows, Mac, Linux....
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Is it possible to open all Chrome windows and tabs from another computer?
I have about 10 windows of Chrome open with a total of about 80 tabs. I'm going to buy a new computer, and I want to open all the windows with the same tabs on the new computer. Is it possible to do ...
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Is it possible to open several web pages when browser is started?
I am searching for browser option or plugin (it will be best if it is available in Web Kit browsers,Opera or Firefox - not IE) that allows me to open several web pages when it is initially started.
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Get the number of open tabs in Firefox
While using Firefox I want to keep tabs on the number of open tabs (pun intended). Is there a way to quickly get this number while using the browser?
In older versions of Firefox there was a pop up ...
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How to open stubborn javascript links in a new tab or new window?
Some websites use "creative" (javascript?) hyperlinks which break browser functionality, such as the ability to ctrl+click or middle click links to open them in a new tab.
A common example, taleo HR ...
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How do I recover tab / session information from Chrome / Chromium?
If I can no longer run chrome itself, How can I recover tab information from files in the chrome profile directory?
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How to re-open closed tab?
I just upgraded to Firefox 4 and can't seem to find a feature I used quite often:
If I accidentally close a tab, I could right-click and select an option to reopen the closed tab.
Where is this ...
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Reorder/rearrange tabs using keyboard shortcut
In Firefox, it's possible to rearrange tabs (reordering, moving to a new window, etc.) by drag-and-drop. But drag-and-drop is slow and unwieldy, and is difficult for some people to use.
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Firefox change tab title
I would like to change tab title for specific site like facebook.com to some custom text. The reason why is because I don't want to see notification(s) count in the tab title, while I am browsing ...
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How do I search page titles of open tabs in Firefox natively?
I want to be able to search page titles of all my open tabs in Firefox without installing yet another resource-consuming add-on to do so. Is this possible?
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Where does Firefox store the opened windows/tabs/URLs for session restore after a crash?
In which location and file does Firefox save the last windows I had opened (when Firefox crashed)?
I have a complete "hot dump" copy of a file system and need to restore the state Firefox was when ...
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Set Chrome to go to last used tab after tab is closed
I'm an ex Opera user so, simply because of how I am used to certain behaviors, I wanna create them in chrome.
For instance: All new tabs should open at the end of all tabs, not next to the current. ...
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Firefox extension to organise tab groups [closed]
In Firefox, I often have 80 or more tabs open in 25 or more tab groups. My tabs are nicely organised in the tab bar, but my tab groups are all over the place.
I try to keep the organised, the same ...
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Recover accidentally closed Opera window and its tabs after restarting
I accidentally closed an instance of Opera with multiple tabs. There was another window with a couple of tabs running.
I have closed and restarted Opera in the hope it will retrieve the windows at ...
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Pinned tab on Google Chrome has a rippling or highlighting effect
On Google Chrome I have a tab with twitter.com on it and it's show a "rippling" effect. Here are a couple of screenshots:
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You can see the lighter area at the top of the tab to the right of the ...
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Mute new tabs by default in Firefox
Firefox has an option to mute a tab. Particularly useful when a misbehaved website opened in a background tab suddenly starts playing a video with sound.
Is it possible to tell Firefox to open new ...
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Showing bookmarks in new tab in firefox
I would like to enable Firefox to show only my bookmarks as tiles
I open a new tab. I don't want it to show tiled snapshots of the past sites I have visited which is the current default behaviour.
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How do I prevent Firefox from closing tabs on middle click?
This has become more of an issue since I got a Magic Mouse and have middle-click mapped as 3-finger touch. It's always annoyed me that Firefox even does this--is there a way to prevent firefox from ...
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faster alternative to firefox tab groups [closed]
I had about 200 tabs open in about 15 tab groups. Needless to say, Firefox wasn't lightning fast (even with the "don't load tabs until selected" option checked). The solution that dramatically ...
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How can I find out which tab sound is coming from? [duplicate]
At times when I am using my web browser – normally Google Chrome – I hear sound playing and I am not sure where it's coming from.
I always do research our performing multiple tasks thus I have many ...
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Making Google Chrome pinned tabs more compact
Is it possible to make tabs in Chrome more compact? Particularly the pinned tabs.
This is what Chrome vs. Firefox looks like on my machine:
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Prevent auto-loading of tabs in Firefox when starting browser
I use Tab Mix Plus, and I have the following settings set:
"Don't load tab until selected" in Tabs dialog of Firefox is set
The "Reload all tabs" in TMP is unselected
The setting browser.sessionstore....
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How to back up and restore firefox tree style tabs?
I use the popular Tree Style Tab firefox extension. How can I back up all open tabs and later restore them, yielding the same tab tree? The backup could be saved to the bookmarks database, or to a ...
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How to make Google Chrome's tabs behave more like Firefox?
Is there a way to have the following in Google Chrome, like Firefox?
A right arrow slider to navigate the tabs.
A drop down list of open tabs.
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How can I launch FireFox with no window frame or tabs / address bar?
I am looking for a way to launch Firefox from a script or command line without any window frame, address bar, or tabs. I'd like to be able to launch this at a given window size and position on screen.
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