I find this implementation visually appealing. Still there are several issues with this first release:
[Bug] Ctrl+Shift+Tab moves into the wrong direction when first hit
[Bug] Pressing Ctrl and then hitting Tab and Esc without releasing Ctrl makes the tab preview band permanent until Ctrl+Tab is hit again
[UX] Currently you only see two tabs ahead, not 20 and something as with Windows and Opera. This feels quite limiting, as you can’t easily spot that you’ll have to hit Tab 3 or four times.
[UX] I’d prefer the preview to be either centered (overlayed) or moved to the top of the window, as with the status bar hidden, my focus tends to the top of the page.
[UX] I’m no fan of blurry previews instead of tab titles. Why not show favicons and tab titles instead and at most the preview of the currently selected page?
[UX] I’d prefer the preview to be either centered (overlayed) or moved to the top of the window, as with the status bar hidden, my focus tends to the top of the page.
Moving it to the top of the window would shift the content area; I doubt that’s a good option.
I did try to use a popup, which looked quite nice. Problem is, keyboard events weren’t captured anymore, which made the whole approach unworkable. I suppose there is a way to get this right, I just have to figure it out.
[UX] I’m no fan of blurry previews instead of tab titles. Why not show favicons and tab titles instead and at most the preview of the currently selected page?
Hm, favicons + titles sounds like a second tab bar. I’m not sure that would be equally useful. The goal is to switch to recently used tabs, where you’re most likely able to recognize the thumbnail. And, as you’ve noted, having two or more previews helps to “spot that you’ll have to hit Tab 3 or four times.”
I did try to use a popup, which looked quite nice.
You might want to have a look at the safebrowsing overlay which should allow you to place a semi-transparent box over the content without having to move anything.
Hm, favicons + titles sounds like a second tab bar.
Indeed, that’s what I’m used to seeing and opposed to a blurry preview will be the same for a page no matter the scroll position. Oh, and as I said: that’s what Windows and Opera do as well… (informal standard)
The goal is to switch to recently used tabs, where you’re most likely able to recognize the thumbnail.
Why? I’m not used to thumbnails of web pages at all - so without some serious brain activity I might not directly recognize that black’n’white blur as this blog, that search result page or any Wikipedia entry.
Of course, maybe several days of actual experience will prove me wrong…
A few more comments after a few minutes of actual usage (with Firefox 2 on WinXP):
* The Ctrl+Tab/Esc bug still seems present (due to a slower computer?)
* Tab switching is actually blocked by the preview band. Shouldn’t tabs be switched as fast as possible and the preview band only displayed when the Ctrl key is still pressed when the previews are ready? Of course, Firefox 2 being slower (and my computer as well) doesn’t really help here.
* Another difference to the task/tab switching UI already present is that you move the previews instead of the cursor - so you have to relearn to move your eyes with the target preview to the cursor instead of with the cursor to the preview.
* AFAICT there’s currently no way to cancel tab switching (i.e. an equivalent to pressing Alt and then hitting Tab and Esc before releasing Alt).
* Maybe not too relevant for your extension: when you close a tab, you don’t get the next tab in your order but just the one right to the current one…
You might want to have a look at the safebrowsing overlay which should allow you to place a semi-transparent box over the content without having to move anything.
That’s still broken on trunk, as far as I know.
The advantage of popups is that you get nice-looking drop shadows and fade-ins/fade-outs for free if the OS supports that.
Indeed, that’s what I’m used to seeing and opposed to a blurry preview will be the same for a page no matter the scroll position. Oh, and as I said: that’s what Windows and Opera do as well… (informal standard)
Not quite a standard, since Windows XP does support thumbnails, not to mention Vista.
Why? I’m not used to thumbnails of web pages at all - so without some serious brain activity I might not directly recognize that black’n’white blur as this blog, that search result page or any Wikipedia entry.
Because you’ve probably looked at that page just a few moments ago.
Of course, there might be sites where this doesn’t work so well, but then you still have the page title.
A few more comments after a few minutes of actual usage (with Firefox 2 on WinXP):
* The Ctrl+Tab/Esc bug still seems present (due to a slower computer?)
It seems that Fx2 doesn’t dispatch the ’blur’ event like trunk builds do when the window loses focus (which is what happens in case of Ctrl+Esc).
* Tab switching is actually blocked by the preview band. Shouldn’t tabs be switched as fast as possible and the preview band only displayed when the Ctrl key is still pressed when the previews are ready?
I’ll have to think about that. FWIW, on trunk/Linux and a lower-end computer, releasing Ctrl quickly switches to the tab immediately and the previews don’t even show up.
* Another difference to the task/tab switching UI already present is that you move the previews instead of the cursor - so you have to relearn to move your eyes with the target preview to the cursor instead of with the cursor to the preview.
On the other hand, it allows you to cycle through the list and concentrate on the current preview, not moving your eyes at all.
* AFAICT there’s currently no way to cancel tab switching (i.e. an equivalent to pressing Alt and then hitting Tab and Esc before releasing Alt).
Yes, using Firefox 2. On trunk, you can cancel tab switching this way.
* Maybe not too relevant for your extension: when you close a tab, you don’t get the next tab in your order but just the one right to the current one…
Indeed, this distracts me every now and then – I think that’s a bug. I’ll probably file that later on and propose a patch that uses my algorithm.
Not quite a standard, since Windows XP does support thumbnails, not to mention Vista.
Only Vista, for XP (and below) you need additional software.
Of course, there might be sites where this doesn’t work so well, but then you still have the page title.
Only for the current preview… Try opening five related Wikipedia articles (e.g. for “Eins”, “Zwei”, “Drei”, “Vier”, “Fünf”) and then observe yourself switching to them in numerical and then in alphabetical order. :-)
It seems that Fx2 doesn’t dispatch the ’blur’ event
on trunk/Linux and a lower-end computer, releasing Ctrl quickly switches to the tab immediately
On trunk, you can cancel tab switching this way.
Hmm, so no more testing until I migrate to Trunk. :-(
On the other hand, it allows you to cycle through the list and concentrate on the current preview, not moving your eyes at all.
Except that even the current preview doesn’t always show up in the same location when the number of open tabs varies. And I usually don’t care too much for the current preview (it sure is nice to see the first time, but later on I prefer working) but rather for the target tab/preview and how to get there (where the target remains at a fixed location and the cursor visibly does the “getting there” bit).
Indeed, this distracts me every now and then – I think that’s a bug.
IMO it’s only a bug when Ctrl+Tab works your (extension’s) way. Else it can get rather difficult to predict which tab will be visible after closing - see bug 345028 for a few examples of how Firefox 2’s algorithm already confuses some people.
Only Vista, for XP (and below) you need additional software.
Sure, but that’s not the point. I think calling the lack of thumbnails an informal standard is a fallacy. In fact, it seems that such thumbnails are becoming the standard.
That said, I’m totally against them if they’re not of concrete, practical use.
Only for the current preview… Try opening five related Wikipedia articles (e.g. for „Eins“, „Zwei“, „Drei“, „Vier“, „Fünf“) and then observe yourself switching to them in numerical and then in alphabetical order. :-)
Yeah, for the current preview. That seems to be good enough for me.
FWIW, you should be able to show all previews via userChrome.css.
Except that even the current preview doesn’t always show up in the same location when the number of open tabs varies. And I usually don’t care too much for the current preview (it sure is nice to see the first time, but later on I prefer working) but rather for the target tab/preview and how to get there (where the target remains at a fixed location and the cursor visibly does the „getting there“ bit).
Of course you care about the preview of your target tab only, but that doesn’t seem to clash with cycling through the tabs and therefore looking at the current preview.
I don’t really see a real alternative anyway. Displaying all previews at the same time (which would be required for a moving cursor, right?) would probably cause performance problems, even on trunk. It would work without previews, but that’s not what I had in mind with this extension …
IMO it’s only a bug when Ctrl+Tab works your (extension’s) way.
I don’t understand this. Does the extension change tab closing behaviour? Or are you saying it *should* do that?
that doesn’t seem to clash with cycling through the tabs and therefore looking at the current preview.
It only does insofar as what you’re mostly interested in is a moving target you *have* to keep tracking. That would be similar to if the Bookmarks menu cycled the items when you hit [Down] instead of just moving the cursor down (and of the menu showing up in (slightly) different places when you add/remove a bookmark).
It would work without previews, but that’s not what I had in mind with this extension …
Yeah, with that premise, many of my points become moot (and I’d just not include this behavior into vanilla Firefox at all).
I don’t understand this. Does the extension change tab closing behaviour? Or are you saying it *should* do that?
The extension doesn’t but IMO should change tab closing behavior, if you completely want to switch from next-tab-in-tabbar order to next-tab-in-most-recently-used order.
Dao: this is way hot, and I think in tandem with Vlad’s work on bug 385211 could solve a lot of our tab management for cases where users have a lot of tabs open.
In my mind, your work here solves the uses cases for both quickly switching between tabs that you know are “nearby” as well as browsing through the set of tabs you have open. Vlad’s work, on the other hand, helps you find a specific tab that you have open and want to jump directly to.
Some thoughts:
- I agree with Simon that it would be better to see more tabs in the preview list. Maybe instead of having all the previews the same size, the ones to the left and right of the selected one could be 50-75% the size of the one in the centre?
- Maybe Enn could help you with the pop-up approach; he just landed a big patch to fix the keyboard event dispatch issue, I think.
- Thumbnails over favicons, totally, though it might be even nicer to overlay the favicon in the bottom right corner of the thumbnail
- It feels to me like the text of the tab title could be even a little larger, again, probably easier to do if you make the other preview images smaller
- The reflections are sexy, but it makes the bottom feel a little unbalanced. This is a nit, but maybe crop the bottom of the bar closer to the bottom of the reflections?
There’s still quite a notable performance hit when changing tabs in versions 0.10 and 0.11. Sure, my hardware is four years old, but currently changing tabs is almost instantly - while Ctrl+Tabbing with both bottom panel and popup lags notably (and pretty soon annoyingly so).
Not sure what could be done against it, though, except maybe caching the thumbnail for a tab after switching away from it (so that you always only have to regenerate the current one) - should you not do so already. Or maybe do some ad-hoc benchmarking on Canvas and only show favicons below a certain value (pref’able for testing).
The favicons could also be better placed still. Aren’t logos found many times in the upper left corner? With the favicon overlaying those, it gets harder to recognize both the page and the favicon (no white background). What about cutting an edge at the lower right?
And before I forget it:
(1) Why not drop the popup and switch instantly in the case where you’ve only got two tabs? At least as long as “Full-Screen Preview” works faster…
(2) Would you mind setting the minVersion to 3.0a7pre (note the pre)? You currently ask for a version which won’t exist anytime soon which makes testing on a clean nightly profile more bothersome. Thanks.
Not sure what could be done against it, though, except maybe caching the thumbnail for a tab after switching away from it (so that you always only have to regenerate the current one) - should you not do so already.
I didn’t; it’s part of the latest version now.
(1) Why not drop the popup and switch instantly in the case where you’ve only got two tabs?
done
(2) Would you mind setting the minVersion to 3.0a7pre (note the pre)? You currently ask for a version which won’t exist anytime soon which makes testing on a clean nightly profile more bothersome. Thanks.
done
The latest version seems to not work on Vista (dunno ’bout XP), creating a space above the menuBar. Otherwise, these changes are pretty great.
That’s odd – I didn’t think Vista could make a difference. It certainly works on my XP box. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to test on Vista anytime soon.
Enn says he’d be happy to help, and something about using a „panel“ instead of a „popup“.
I’m already using a panel element (although I still like to call the whole thing “popup”). Enn’s rewrite fixed the problem that I had before.
For comparison: the LastTab extension from http://timothyhumphrey.name/firefox/lasttab.aspx behaves more like what I had in mind - including WRT tab closing, excluding however the two-tabs case - and also performs better on my machine (one of the tricks: loading the preview(s) only when the popup is already visible). If you haven’t seen it yet, you might want to have a look at it (it’s tri-licensed as well)…
The latest version seems to not work on Vista
The same happened to me with a slightly out-of-date nightly without Neil’s popup patch. Updating fixed the issue.
I heard of that extension, but didn’t know it has a popup too.
Well, it’s good that it implements it differently. This way I don’t have to worry about how the optimal approach would look like – we can just try them both.
- including WRT tab closing, excluding however the two-tabs case - and also performs better on my machine
Even if it doesn’t do any caching, that’s expectable. It shows only one preview after all.
When a site doesn’t have a favicon, the favicon for the overlay in the preview is used from the site which had the last focus.
That’s an interesting feature of SVG images. I worked around that now. Thanks for pointing it out.
Ctrl-Tab 0.12.1 causes my latest build to crash. When I disable the extension, things run as normal. But when I enable it back again, switching a tab and/or hitting Ctrl-Tab results almost every time in a crash. I don’t know the specific regressionrange… But these things started to happen since the new Cairo (1.5) landed. (Well, at least I guess that could be the cause…) Gran Paradiso alpha 7 works well in combination with Ctrl-Tab 0.12.1. I can’t really reproduce the crash explicitly, sorry.
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I put it into a popup but see on these comments you are looking into this already. Firstly I have added left/right arrow navigation to compliment the tab/shift tab. The major difference however is the tab history. To the right of the selected preview you will see the browsing history for that tab - use the up/down arow keys to navigate history, when you release the ctrl key the tab is selected and goes to the history point.
The extension is great as is, so maybe not the direction you want to go down.
Do you have a plan to add the context menu on thumbnails? In my extension “Tab Catalog” ( http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_tabcatalog.html.en ), the context menu for tabs is shown even if thumbnails are clicked with right button. The feature would be present us better experience.
Recently Closed Tabs is a really useful feature that most user don’t discover. Have you considered exposing it in tab preview? Maybe as drop down box or maybe as “Also Show Recently Closed Tabs” link that expands the tab preview area?
My comments:
(1) It would be better if it behaved more like Alt+Tab though I don’t know the technical issues.
(2) If you bring up the popup by clicking with your mouse, how about clearing the filter? If you’re using the mouse it’s more likely you want to see all the tabs. Or it may be better to just always start with an empty filter.
(3) Use Ctrl+Q instead of F4 to bring up popup? It would be consistent with IE7 Quick Tabs and avoid using a function key.
(4) It would be great if it searched everything when filtering, where “everything” = tabs, history, bookmarks, content of all that, the web, etc. That’s probably really hard to do but I’d love to see it go in that direction. (Tony’s history screencast in comment 22 looked great too.)
Is it a feature or a bug that F4, which displays the tab grid, does not hide the tab grid if pressed again? This affects the case where you open the tab grid and do not select another tab. In case it matters, I am using Firefox 3 RC1 on OS X 10.5 and the newest Ctrl-Tab from this site.
Is it a feature or a bug that F4, which displays the tab grid, does not hide the tab grid if pressed again?
I simply didn’t think of that. The standard way to close a panel is the ESC key.
Do others think pressing F4 again should close the panel?
Firefox User wrote on June 4, 2008 03:43 PM BST ():
Yes, I agree, I just came here to post the very same request. ;-)
I like the idea of toggling visibility. If I hit F4 although I meant e.g. F3, it’s fastest to press the wrong key again, as I still have my finger on that anyway.
Btw, Firefox implements this behavior as well with the builtin sidebar (e.g. Ctrl-B or Ctrl-H are togglers). Same with Scrapbook, prefbar, stylish, adblock or the builtin download manager.
why does this addon replaces tablist-button (which resides at the right of tab bar an shows simple list of tabs in CURRENT firefox window) with it own button, which shows previews of all tabs in all FF windows?
I liked the old one.
can it be option to not to replace it?
why does this addon replaces tablist-button (which resides at the right of tab bar an shows simple list of tabs in CURRENT firefox window) with it own button, which shows previews of all tabs in all FF windows?
I liked the old one.
can it be option to not to replace it?
why does this addon replaces tablist-button (which resides at the right of tab bar an shows simple list of tabs in CURRENT firefox window) with it own button, which shows previews of all tabs in all FF windows?
I liked the old one.
can it be option to not to replace it?
You can open about:config and set browser.allTabs.allWindows to false.
I think this add-on offers a lot of potential benefit, but there’s a lot of room for improvement on the implementation.
1. I’d like to see the list of open tabs scroll to the sides rather than just reappear in their next location when hitting tab, the way the Compiz Application Switcher plugin does it.. this would make for a smother view.
2. I’d like to be able to customize some things, like the size of the previews, the sorting order, the background color, number of visible tabs, etc.
3. the add-on doesn’t properly manage window titles in right-to-left languages (Arabic and Hebrew, for example). it displays the title in visual rather than logical encoding.
4. for some reason, the highlighted tab is the second from the left (out of 6 visible tabs). I’d expect the middle one to be the one in focus.
1. I’d like to see the list of open tabs scroll to the sides rather than just reappear in their next location when hitting tab, the way the Compiz Application Switcher plugin does it.. this would make for a smother view.
Unfortunately Gecko’s rendering speed currently seems to too slow for this. Smooth scrolling is only bearable if the transparency and reflection effects are disabled.
2. I’d like to be able to customize some things, like the size of the previews, the sorting order, the background color, number of visible tabs, etc.
The number of visible tabs can be customized with the browser.tabsPanel.previewsInRow hidden pref, which automatically affects the size of the previews.
3. the add-on doesn’t properly manage window titles in right-to-left languages (Arabic and Hebrew, for example). it displays the title in visual rather than logical encoding.
When I use the CTRL+TAB shortcut quickly (i.e. I know that I’m switching to the correct tab first go and don’t hold the keys down) it would be nice that the overlay view doesn’t show up.
This can be handled by having a short (200ms) time out before the overlay window shows up. Therefore if I hit CTRL+TAB quickly, the tab would switch and there would be no slowdown for Gecko to render the transparent overlay.
i cant see the effect of the ctrl tab navigation like alt tab on my windows vista home premium i dont know why
i reinstalled and i cant get it fixed also have another computer on windows xp with firefox 3 and i can see the effect or popup windows i dont know how you call it but you get the idea on both computers i am running ff3
Regarding #38 above - would it be possible to “reverse” which side of the displayed previews contains the highlighted one when shift-ctrl-tabbing? i.e. - when ctrl-tabbing, the second from left is highlighted - can it be second from right when shift-ctrl-tabbing?
i cant see the effect of the ctrl tab navigation like alt tab on my windows vista home premium i dont know why
Neither do I, sorry. I can’t test this as I don’t have Windows Vista, but since I’ve never heard about this problem before, I don’t think there’s something wrong with the extension itself.
Regarding #38 above - would it be possible to „reverse“ which side of the displayed previews contains the highlighted one when shift-ctrl-tabbing? i.e. - when ctrl-tabbing, the second from left is highlighted - can it be second from right when shift-ctrl-tabbing?
You can press shift after opening the panel with ctrl+tab. Likewise, you can release shift after opening the panel with shift+ctrl+tab. Reversing the layout while the panel is open would be quite odd, wouldn’t it?
its because the effect of ctrl tab does not work on vista i already tried on another vista computer and does not show the effect on all of my computers the f4 works flawlessly and i like it because i open a lot of tabs and navigating trough them with this thing is perfect but only xp works the control tab navigation effect maybe you should check it on a friend’s vista pc i love to navigate with thaht effect on xp maybe i am not the only one with this problem because nobody knows and nobody can see the effect
Can you please give us an option at the very least to make sure we are able to switch tabs based on the order they are and not on the use order… one of the greatest addons… just doing that would make it my best addon. extremely fast and efficent!
Yuor add-on is fantastic; just a request: is it possible to change the backgroung colour of your add-on interface from black to white ???
The black background is perfect if firefox pages background is white, but those fantastic browser that is Firefox enamble you (with “Stylish” add-on) to change background colour of web pages (I’ve picked black, so my eyes are not always flashing).
So, is it possible to change the backgroung colour of your add-on interface from black to white ???
Thanks in advice and sill my greatest compliments.
Sie könnte aber einen helleren Rand haben, damit die Box auch bei schwarzen Webseiten-Hintergrund zu erkennen ist.
Ich fände es praktischer, wenn man mit Strg+Tab durch eine Übersicht (wie beim Drücken von F4) springen kann, anstatt durch die Seiten zu blättern (hier verliere ich immer die Orientierung). Dabei reicht es schon, wenn die selektierte Seite einfach nur den Grauschleier verliert - den Fokus-Effekt finde ich schon zuviel.
Außerdem sehen die verzerrten Icons nicht so toll aus. Wäre es möglich diese in 16x16-Größe über die rechte untere Ecke zu legen? (wie bei der Fenster-Vorschau im Dock von OS X)
Vielleicht ließe sich einiges davon über einen Einstellungs-Dialog festlegen, damit jeder Nutzer es nach seinem Gusto anpassen kann.
I use piclens and I love how this extension has that similar reflection effect and
looks great. I also like how smart it is with its ability to not display the thumbs
when there are only 2 tabs open in which case obviously you will not need
the help of thumbnail window.
Hand little addon! Might a make a couple of small suggestions:
- When cycling through the options, it would be more intuitive if the currently selected tab was in the middle.
- A small cosmetic thing: it would be nice if there was a bit more space beteen the heading and the preview of the selected tab. Would be super pretty if the text was centred above the tab preview as well
These are just nit-picky things - overall an awesome addon!
its because the effect of ctrl tab does not work on vista
I’ll check this as soon as I get a chance to access a Vista machine.
When i use Ctrl+W to close current Tab extension no longer invokes by pressing Ctrl+Tab till i open new tab. Why so and how i can fix this?
Works for me. Do you have any other extensions installed? Anything in the error console?
Can you please give us an option at the very least to make sure we are able to switch tabs based on the order they are and not on the use order…
Yeah, could be added, but currently not planned.
The black background is perfect if firefox pages background is white, but those fantastic browser that is Firefox enamble you (with “Stylish” add-on) to change background colour of web pages (I’ve picked black, so my eyes are not always flashing).
So, is it possible to change the backgroung colour of your add-on interface from black to white ???
You could change the colors using userChrome.css, but note that version 0.17 works better on black pages.
A few notes: multi-monitor support would be great (the box aligns itself closest to the main monitor)
I think that’s a Gecko bug, I don’t think the extension is doing anything wrong there.
Sie könnte aber einen helleren Rand haben, damit die Box auch bei schwarzen Webseiten-Hintergrund zu erkennen ist.
Erledigt!
Ich fände es praktischer, wenn man mit Strg+Tab durch eine Übersicht (wie beim Drücken von F4) springen kann, anstatt durch die Seiten zu blättern (hier verliere ich immer die Orientierung). Dabei reicht es schon, wenn die selektierte Seite einfach nur den Grauschleier verliert - den Fokus-Effekt finde ich schon zuviel.
Außerdem sehen die verzerrten Icons nicht so toll aus. Wäre es möglich diese in 16x16-Größe über die rechte untere Ecke zu legen? (wie bei der Fenster-Vorschau im Dock von OS X)
Momentan nicht geplant, aber ist notiert.
When only 2 tabs are open, the overlay doesn’t show, can this be added?
Err, no, there’s no point in previews if there’s only one tab that you can switch to :)
- When cycling through the options, it would be more intuitive if the currently selected tab was in the middle.
- A small cosmetic thing: it would be nice if there was a bit more space beteen the heading and the preview of the selected tab. Would be super pretty if the text was centred above the tab preview as well
Hey hows it going. I discovered a slight glitch in your layout. i am currently using a modified version of your code because i love your add on just not the way it messes with my Chrome. here is css
I have an problem if I have open one tab with spreadsheet in GoogleDocs. Whenever I press ctrl+tab, cursor focus move itself to the next cell in spreadsheet so frequently how much I press ctrl+tab.
can you scale the tab previews based on preview count and ff3 window size.
i have 1920x1200 screen resolution and with 3 tabs in preview they can be double the size
I have an problem if I have open one tab with spreadsheet in GoogleDocs. Whenever I press ctrl+tab, cursor focus move itself to the next cell in spreadsheet so frequently how much I press ctrl+tab.
Thanks for the report, going to fix that in the next release.
can you scale the tab previews based on preview count and ff3 window size.
i have 1920x1200 screen resolution and with 3 tabs in preview they can be double the size
The preview size depends on the screen size (i.e. width = screenWidth / 7.5, height = width * 0.6875). Making the previews bigger might be bad for performance.
Is it possible to force ctrl-tab to go in order rather than cycling the tabs in “use order”? Thanks, please email me a response if this is possible. Thanks for the great addon, I am sure Mozilla will steal this and import it into Firefox 3.1.
Great work… totally loving the add-on and the way it’s changing my browsing experience…
Just one suggestion/feature-beg.--
in the F4 panel can you change the behaviour such that it doesn’t load all the preview images at one shot (or thread)?
This is coz I normally have anywhere between 20-40 tabs open at a time and am using the F4 tab especially for its ’filter’ feature, whose input box is currently not responsive until all 40 images load…
Hope I explained that properly enough, please email me in case its not.
Is there any way to switch from F4 (like to F6) as an option? I have the Mac Slim Keyboard and then Dashboard is coded to F4 (would rather make this one F6) - couldn’t see that in the options.
>>Can you please give us an option at the very least to make sure we are able to switch tabs based on the order they are and not on the use order…
Yeah, could be added, but currently not planned.
While use order is clearly the better way, you or someone else will probably have to implement this as an option at some point based on the (inevitable) reaction of the vocal part of the Mozilla community who are resistant to changes in habits. Without an option to point to patches get reverted (ie. clear downloads) or the old way gets reimplemented as an option (ie. text zoom).
Just one thing. I would love it even more if I was able to use it without keyboard, just with mouse. Switching tabs by pressing right mouse button + scrolling wheel up/down and displaying grid by pressing right mouse button + scroll wheel/middle button would work for me :)
OK add-on.
There a few things that could be improved. Here is a list of what, in my opinion, needs to be changed:
(option for) more then three ’tabs’ on the ctrl+tab ’bar’ (edit: I realize there is an option, but it’s hidden)
(option for) favicon removed, or made default size and not angled
(option for) PNG thumbnail previews (I can tell they are JPEG just because of the horrible quality and ’noise’)
crtl-tab has to go in order of tabs - it really bugs me that it doesn’t
@ Andrew: I think you left out Thanks for the addon.
OK add-on.
There a few things that could be improved. Here is a list of what, in my opinion, needs to be changed:
(option for) more then three ’tabs’ on the ctrl+tab ’bar’ (edit: I realize there is an option, but it’s hidden)
(option for) favicon removed, or made default size and not angled
(option for) PNG thumbnail previews (I can tell they are JPEG just because of the horrible quality and ’noise’)
crtl-tab has to go in order of tabs - it really bugs me that it doesn’t
Just a quick thing I noticed using the most recent Ctrl-Tab and Firefox 3. I use Tab Mix Plus which provides the option of enabling a button on the tab bar that brings up a drop down menu of all currently open tabs. When I’m using Ctrl-Tab with some themes (Aaron Spuler’s Mars and Smoke themes both encounter this), it sometimes causes the icon shown for the tab drop down menu to be longer than it should be, making the tab bar three times as large as it should be. When I disable Ctrl-Tab, the correct icon is shown. The two Aaron Spuler themes I mentioned use the same icon file for the drop down button on the tab bar and on the address bar (\global\icons\dropmarker.png). It only causes a glitch in the tab bar drop down menu button, and I assume this is because Ctrl-Tab edits the function of the tab bar drop down menu and not the address bar menu. Just a little thing I thought I’d point out. Thanks.
Wonderful extension, i love it! except it does not play well with the iFox theme by riz. the tab previews (f4) do not display properly…is there a quick workaround?
Great job!
But I miss a feature. When ctrl+tabbing I would like to be able to close the tab by pressing ctrl+W.
Didn’t get it? This is what i would like:
Hold ctrl
Tap tab(to open your wonderful extension/choose tab)
Tap W(to close selected tab)
In my opinion it’s much easier than switching tab before you can close it.
It would be great if the preview could be a little bit larger…
Maybe you could at a preferences menu where the user could choose between two (or more) sizes…
I’d also add some comments here :)
- It would be great if the overview key (F4) could be configured to another one. Personally, I would change it to Ctrl - ^ (the key above TAB, I’m using a german keyboard).
- Selecting a tab with mouse when the Ctrl-Tab window is open (like in the F4 overview) would also be nice.
- Did already someone ask for the mirror effect also to be shown in the tab overview window? :-)
One issue found: When using the overview and filter function having this page (design-noir.de) open in a tab, the tab overview window leaves black artifacts on the screen after it closes.
Really like your extension. I use an older mac and when I have a lot of tabs, it takes a long time for them to load in the preview. Sometimes I know what that title is, though, and I wish the extension gave the option to use the tab-search sometimes.
>>Can you please give us an option at the very least to make sure we are able to switch tabs based on the order they are and not on the use order…
While use order is clearly the better way, you or someone else will probably have to implement this as an option at some point based on the (inevitable) reaction of the vocal part of the Mozilla community who are resistant to changes in habits. Without an option to point to patches get reverted (ie. clear downloads) or the old way gets reimplemented as an option (ie. text zoom).
I tried to change the attachTab function to this:
attachTab: function (aTab, aSelected) {
this.tabs.splice(aTab._tPos, 0, aTab);
},
That made the Ctrl-Tab popup be in the same order as the tabs are in the browser. Only problem is, that whenever you press Ctrl-Tab in whatever tab, it would start scrolling at tab number 2. (So I guess the scroll code also has to be changed).
I still love it. if you click on the “list all tabs” button you get the preview of all the tabs. Is there a way to cache this preview so that it doesn’t reload all of the tabs-previews every time I click that button?
Very nice addon. Ctrl-TAB now functions as it should.
One small problem ; the F4 view does not load any previews on my system : Firefox 3.0 Linux (Ubuntu 8.04). Here’s a screenshot of how the F4 window looks:
Just grabbed the 3.1a1pre - and, although I like the new functionality, I do prefer the old method of tabbing. Is it possible to disable Ctrl-Tab in 3.1?
I tried to change “browser.ctrlTab.previewsCount” to 0, but this didn’t work.
This is much like address bar in v3 - I’m used to the old style, so it’s possible to turn this functionality off, there must be away to do this with Ctrl-Tab - or I hope that there is :/
Thanks
I just created a style to allow you to customize the background of the Ctrl-Tab extension!!
Found here is the link: http://userstyles.org/styles/8843
Allows you to Customize the text and background image of Ctrl-Tab Firefox Extension
Features:
+ Background image will be a faded white Firefox logo with shadowing (Fully Customizable)
+ Supports a huge list of Fonts (discussed below)
+ Image supplied in default code is hard-coded - allowing you to view the background, even when offline!
+ Background image is static and is centered on the popup.
= Optional - Text color of the update details will be larger (must uncomment)
= Optional - Bold text for easier readability (must un-comment)
It would be very very nice if one could choose another function key than F4. This Key ist used by default for dashboard on the Macbook under Os 10.5 and can not properly be switched off. That way one has always to use the mouse for seeing all tabs.
This is getting better with each new update :) One minor issue (0.18.1): when you close a tab via the panel, a “haze” remains over the tab bar. This goes away when you move the mouse over it though…
Running 0.18.1 in combination with the latest nightly.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1a1pre) Gecko/2008071803 Minefield/3.1a1pre ID:2008071803
There is a bug when you have two tabs open while also using the LastTab extension: pressing Ctrl+Tab flickers to the other tab (without drawing the popup view, even if you’ve requested it for as few as 2 tabs), and once the keys are released it flicks back to the original tab. This is somewhat unhelpful behavior :-p
Excellent work. But there is bug when I use multi-screen. The bar doesn’t show in the middle of the monitor appropriately. I’m looking forward to your new version.
Great extension! But I got the same problem as shingo… i have 3 monitors and the tab-preview (ctrl-tab) shows on the right edge of the window when maximized it to the left monitor. when maximized on the right monitor, its on the left edge of the window. only when using it on the center monitor its behaving normally.
At work, i have a multi-monitor-setup, too. but its working fine. I don’t have any idea what’s causing this issue.
Great extension, I like all the features it has offer, but one thing I didn’t like and not sure if the extension does this normally or if its an issue with one of my other extensions, but it made the tab bar height 3 times what it normally is…
I very much appreciate the functionality and looks of your extension; thanks very much for a job well done.
One small yet (to me) important note: My favorite visual theme for the browser is MacOSX (on the Windows platform) This, however, when loaded, will prevent Ctrl-Tab from working correctly: Pressing F4 will still produce a grid, but the thumbnails will be squashed and unrecognizable. I have left a similar note for the developer of said theme in hopes that the problem will be solved on either end.
Great extension, but ctrl+tab cycle in this shitty last showed tabs order instead of numerical order.
I would like to have an option to desactivate (shift)+ctrl+tab, i’m only insterrested in the ctrl+a feature ( with browser.allTabs.allWindows setted to false ^^ )
Yep, the F4 for grid isn’t working on 10.5 Mac OS X.
nightflight wrote on August 3, 2008 05:06 PM BST ():
I just installed your add-on replacing Ctrl Tab Preview, which doesn’t work with FF3. I was pleased with the Ctrl+Tab preview window, but somehow Ctrl+Alt+A didn’t work for me (I have many add-ons, maybe some are interfering?)
Moreover, the grid view replaced the normal list available trough the ’list all tabs’ button and I didn’t like that. I would like to be able to configure that. Would that be possible?
Be sure that you’re pressing [CTRL]+[ALT]+[A] and not [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[A]
anjalip222 wrote on August 4, 2008 02:37 PM BST ():
First of all - many thanks and congratulations for this wonderful extension.
Some suggestions for improvements, though:
1.) Please provide Options. At the moment a user can’t modify any aspect of this extension.
2.) Please think about incorporating the Mac’s CoverFlow type animation, when CTRL-Tab is pressed. It would bring up each thumbnail from a rotating bunch of open tabs. That would be super cool. But allow the user to switch between the standard and coverflow mode, too.
3.) Please allow the user to restore Firefox 3’s native tab-list button on the right of the tab-bar. The best would be to allow the user to have CTRL-Tab’s tab-preview button on the LEFT of the tab-bar - just like in Internet Explorer 7. That way an user can have both - IE Tab previews on tab left as well as the traditional FF3 tab-list button on the tab right. But make sure other buttons on tab left are not affected - like new tab button or undo close button.
4.) Please allow the user to adjust the width of the central window when ctrl-tab is pressed. At the moment the window is too small and only 3 tabs can be shown. BTW, coverflow-type animation will allow for lots of tabs to be shown in a small space.
5.) Please allow the user to adjust the size of the preview thumbnail in the main window. It is too small at the moment. Ideally it should be around 150 - 200 pixels.
6.) Please refine the visual aspects of the tab-list button on the right of the tab-bar. A user should be able to modify the dimensions of the main window, change the size of the preview thumbs, show the existing tab prominently, etc.. You can take inspiration from a fantastic extension called Firefox Showcase - considered the best in tab-previews.
Hope to see an improved version soon.
My compliments to the excellent design of this web-page.
nightflight wrote on August 4, 2008 08:34 PM BST ():
Thanks KaaMoS, I am using the correct key combination. But then I have so many add-ons I’m not surprised this doesn’t work. I am much more concerned with the grid view replacing the tab list. Can this be optional, please?
I just spotted a conflict with the “undo closed Tab” add-on… The short cut “ctrl+shift+A” is the same for it and instead of showing the grid of ctrl+tab, it opens the last closed Tab…
I just spotted a conflict with the „undo closed Tab“ add-on… The short cut „ctrl+shift+A“ is the same for it and instead of showing the grid of ctrl+tab, it opens the last closed Tab…
Firefox already provides a shortcut for “undo closed tab”, it’s Ctrl+Shift+T.
A larger preview size will be much more helpful to choose among pages from same domain. The current preview size is too small to see the context in it.
Why did you remove F4 ? :’( :/
It is not possible to let us change all shortcuts ?
And is not possible to let us desactivate (shift)ctrl+tab ? Or to change the behavior ? :
I don’t like how tab are ordered (last seen instead of tab number)…
I hate pressing ctrl+tab and getting back to previous seen tab.
I preferer going on next tab (or first tab if I was on the last tab).
Excellent work. But there is bug when I use multi-screen. The bar doesn’t show in the middle of the monitor appropriately. I’m looking forward to your new version.
I concur. Doesn’t align correctly if used on the secondary screen of a horizontal multi-monitor-setup on Windows XP/FF3. Bugged me, removed the extension for that reason.
Zunächst: Schönes Plugin!
Frage: Größe der Thumbnails ist unter einer 1600er-Auflösung unzureichend. Über About:config --> browser.tab etc habe ich keine Veränderungen feststellen können. Wo ist das Rädchen?
Gruß Tim
lord_zythor wrote on August 7, 2008 04:27 PM BST ():
I agree with all the things anjalip222 said.
I also like F4 better than shift+ctrl+a. I’ve personally used the keyconfig extension to change it back to F4.
I agree with what many people are saying, that shift+ctrl+tab either shouldn’t do the same as ctrl-tab, or there should be an option to turn it off. Personally I’m surprised that a popular and relatively complex extension like ctrl-tab has no options whatsoever.
I also think the ctrl-tab preview pane is disappointingly small. It’s fine for switching between a few tabs, but when i have several tabs i always use the all tabs pane because i can’t see enough tabs at once to quickly know how many times to hit Tab before letting go. Also, only the title of the selected tab is shown in the preview pane. Having titles above all tabs, in addition to a bigger pane, would be a big help.
I also have an idea for a future feature, though it would probably be rele hard to program. It would be awesome if the all tabs pane acted just like the tabbar at the top. That is, you could drag tabs to rearrange them, right-click to bring up the context menu, ctrl+drag to clone them, anything that you can do to a tab in the tab bar. It would be a major addition but it would be great for a major update, a sort of next-gen ctrl-tab.
What is the key combination to bring up the grid of all tabs on a mac?
I’m wondering the same thing. Ctrl-Shift-A is not working on my Mac OS X. And Ctrl-Tab cycles through all tabs within a single Firefox window but not through all of the tabs of all of the Firefox windows that are open . . . I seem to recall all of this working a bit better on MS Windoze . . . Still, it’s a an awesome extension . . . Just needs a few upgrades to make it more compatible with Firefox on Apple PCs . . . . ?
great add on! but it would be much more usable if the tab order function was modified a bit…if i click a link to open in a new tab and press ctrl+tab, it switches to the newly opened tab instead of the last tab in the stack (similar to IE).
I like CTRL+Tab very much. I only doesn’t seem to work wel in combination with IE Tab, Is that something that could be fixed?
Circiter wrote on August 11, 2008 06:03 PM BST ():
Well, it now works with the MacOSX theme for windows, so I’m very happy.
Many thanks for the fix!!
Circiter wrote on August 11, 2008 07:15 PM BST ():
It turns out that my happiness, expressed in comment 117 above, was only partial after all: Yes, Ctrl-Tab does work with the MacOSX theme for windows now, but there remain a few graphic bugs in the grid display. The thumbnails are too close together and the captions of most of them cannot be seen.
Still, I’m celebrating.
S
Mickey Shan wrote on August 13, 2008 01:32 PM BST ():
greeting
It works well before I install the plugin anycolor.
The backgound color is white when I press Ctrl+Tab(anycolor is enabled).
disable anycolor it is work well as also.
Now.How can i fix it?
I agree with some of the other people that there should be an option to disable or at least modify the behaviour of (shift+)ctrl+tab. I like Firefox’s default tab behaviour because I’m used to it but I also like the ctrl+shift+A grid so if you give some options to customize Ctrl+Tab, this would be an awesome extension
What I have done is disabled the Ctrl+Shift+A in my All-in-One Sidebar extension, as I don’t use the keyboard combination to access my Add-ons. That solved my conflict problem.
Now, I want to know how do I make the previews in the Ctrl+Shift+A larger. I was looking in the allTabs.js file in the xpi and I saw some variables which might do that, but this type of edit is way out of my scope of knowledge and expertise.
Can you either explain the procedure or avail the option to change the javascript file to manipulate the preview sizes on the allTabs shortcut? Or can someone here provide some technical guidance on this?
Can you either explain the procedure or avail the option to change the javascript file to manipulate the preview sizes on the allTabs shortcut? Or can someone here provide some technical guidance on this?
The preview size is determined in tabPreviews.init in ctrlTab.js. But note that the previews in the Ctrl+Shift+A panel are downscaled automatically if they don’t fit the screen.
There is a bug in last version (0.19) Tags are doble size
Charles Burdsal wrote on August 17, 2008 04:42 PM BST ():
When I installed .19, I suddenly have what appears to be a 4 line tool bar with MANY icons. I had to disable .19 to get FireFox back to normal. Any suggestions?
Great add-on. Would be even better if, when you closed a tab, firefox automatically jumped to the last used tab, rather than to the tab directly adjacent to the one being closed.
thanks!
Conflict with Trillian solved wrote on August 17, 2008 08:21 PM BST ():
If anyone got problems with trillian, the solution is simple:
For trillian 3.1 users:
- Select the menupoint “Trillian”
- Select the option “Preferences”
- Select at the left menu “Advanced Preferences”
- Select at the left menu “Automation”
- Scroll down until you see: “Hotkey: Ctrl-Shift-A” and click “Change”
- Now you can setup a new key for this, or simple diable it - uncheck “Enabled”
- Finish with “Set Event” and close the preferences
All done :) I hope, i could help.
Aravind365 wrote on August 18, 2008 02:53 AM BST ():
I would like to customize the preference of the next tab (recently visited tab or next tab when we press ctrl+tab, it would be better if you would add that in the options button of the Add-ons window >> Extensions tab >> Ctrl-Tab list item.
It would also be better if you would set an option to arrange the icons order in such a way that pages of the same web page group together, since when Ctrl+Clicking of any URL would only open the web page in a new tab.
It would be better if that option is assigned to Ctrl+` after pressing Ctrl+Tab for enable it and disabling it.
kirschkern wrote on August 18, 2008 12:25 PM BST ():
I had to disable to Tab Mix Plus Setting which flips between the last viewed TABs with CTRL+TAB. Now CTRL+TAB works.
To enable CTRL+SHIFT+A I had to change the Trillians settings as allready described here in comment 130. However it’s not enough to disable the Hotkey, I had to change it!
It currently doesn’t work too well on multiple monitors. I run Firefox on my 2nd monitor (right), and the ctrl-tab highlight pops up on the right-monitor, with the left edge of the popup aligned with the left edge of the screen, not the Firefox window. it’s not centered correctly at all.
I am using Aeon 2.9.1 theme and I think that is what was giving me those 4 lines of coninuous icons. Installed the previous version of ctrl-tab and it works fine.
An excellent plugin: I’d like to propose two enhancements though:
- An option to always use the order in the tab-bar (MRU order make me nervous)
- A way to close the c-tab dialog (c-c maybe; c-esc on windows opens the windows menu)
I have the problem that only the second time I switch to a tab counts for AgingTabs. That means I switch to a page - it will be colored as active. When I switch to another tab the first tab will have it’s original color. Only when I switch back a second time the tab will be recolored after switching away from it. The “active” color always works.
I have a lot of AddOns installed. When nobody has the same problem I could provide you with a list of my AddOns.
It seems the previews are in random order, the match in no way with the tab order…
I can’t find the options dialog, how can i configure custom shortcuts?
greetings
Ryan
Jonathan wrote on August 23, 2008 03:21 AM BST ():
Great plugin!
I love the “show all tabs” functionality but am not a fan of the new graphic preview (if only because it is a little slower on my machine). It would be great if you implemented some Add-in “Options” that could enable/disable one part while maintaining the other.
Are those who claim that 0.19 doesn’t work all using Tab Mix Plus?
It was the same for me, but as a workaround it is sufficient to disable the option to navigate through tabs in the order of last usage in the preferences of TMP; there is no need to disable TMP completly…
Hi! Great extension, but how have you done the transparency in the screenshot? I’m on Ubuntu Hardy with powerful 3D acceleration and both views only have a white background.
this addon is simply ab-so-lu-te-ly beautiful !!!! and totally useful !!! it’s a perfect integration to OS X look & feel. thanks a lot guys, such a nice work ! pierre, your french fan ;-)
Another request for the hotkey customization.
I use a Mac, and on Safari, I grew quite used to using CMD+Shift+<arrow key>
I can’t seem to break the habit, it seems Ctrl+Tab is too awkward for me. Please, please, please, bring that keyboard shortcut to us Mac-centric.
valentin wrote on September 1, 2008 11:26 AM BST ():
Hotkey customisation would be great…
Did you add that function to Ctrl Tab?
trooper wrote on September 2, 2008 04:02 PM BST ():
can’t use the ctrl+shift+a, if i have “all-in-one sidebar” addon installed…plz help
trooper wrote on September 2, 2008 05:28 PM BST ():
ctrl+tab won’t bring up the cool screen when there are only 2 tabs
rocker wrote on September 3, 2008 02:31 PM BST ():
Hi, Ctrl+Shift+A is used by very popular addon adblock! i love this addon, but adblock is just essential…please integrate hotkey customization urgently!!!
Custom Shortcuts! It’s a must! Ctrl+Q would help in my case
Kyle_the_hacker wrote on September 6, 2008 03:57 PM BST ():
PLEASE! Don’t save the tabs in JPEG any more! You can save it in PNG, it would be perfect, but not in this compressed, pixeled JPEG please! I’m going to vomit (and it is not so reconnisable).
KnarfJ wrote on September 7, 2008 03:39 AM BST ():
Hey,Ctrl-Tab 0.19 and above doesn’t show Ctrl Tab Preview in Firefox 3.0.1 and 3.0.2.Ctrl+Shift+A preview still works.Now,I have to install version 0.18.3.
Ich frage noch einmal: Wie hast Du die Transparenz in deinen Bildschirmfotos gemacht? Bei mir haben beide Ansichten einen weißen Hintergrund (die Reflexion gibt es aber). Ich bin auf Ubuntu 8.04 mit den aktuellen Nvidia-Treibern und perfekt laufendem Compiz Fusion, an der Grafikkarte (GeForce 7650 GS) kann es also nicht liegen. Oder unterstützt der Linux-Firefox gar keine Transparenz?
Jonathan Philip wrote on September 8, 2008 08:23 AM BST ():
Hi,
nice extension, but could you please add an option not to change the functionality of the drop down arrow next to the scrollbar on the right hand side. Although I like the preview when you ctrl + tab, if I have many tabs open and want to find something quickly, I use that drop down button, but as it is no longer a simple list of text, it takes too long to load for my liking, and I would prefer to use the old functionality.
Thanks
Chris Hayashida wrote on September 9, 2008 11:48 PM BST ():
I just got the update. The Ctrl-Q update is great. It’s exactly what I wanted!
Thank you!
Endor wrote on September 10, 2008 08:13 PM BST ():
Klasse Add-on leider funktioniert es nicht mit aktiviertem Tabmixplus addon
welches für mich wichtiger ist. Könnt Ihr das bitte endlich ändern?
Danke!!
Endor
Chris wrote on September 11, 2008 08:15 AM BST ():
Excellent concept, but I am really not liking the awkward finger/hand position required to use “Ctrl + Tab”. As a result, I don’t use it. I think this could be improved by making an option for “Ctrl + [Keyboard Windows/Start button]” or “Spacebar + Tab”. The “Alt + Tab” function is so easy to use because the alt and tab keys are sufficiently spaced out, whereas Ctrl and Tab are in the same ’column’ of keys.
Mark Sheppard wrote on September 11, 2008 11:45 AM BST ():
Can you please give us an option at the very least to make sure we are able to switch tabs based on the order they are and not on the use order…
Totally agree with this. Switching tabs in a most-recently-used order breaks the way I use Firefox. I tend to fire off loads of new tabs from lots of links on a page, then use Ctrl-Tab to read each them in turn. After installing this extension I can’t do that any more :-(.
So please could you add an option to choose between the new most-recently-used order and the old next-tab-to-the-right order?
Darker wrote on September 11, 2008 06:24 PM BST ():
Since the last update, switching tabs is really slow and the animation is not fluent anymore…
The preview size has not been increased as stated in the changes, only a part of the site is showing (magnified). The preview pics are in an ugly 16:9 format, too, but i’m using a 4:3 resulution… :-?
Tim.H wrote on September 12, 2008 01:30 AM BST ():
Excellent concept, but I am really not liking the awkward finger/hand position required to use “Ctrl + Tab”. As a result, I don’t use it. I think this could be improved by making an option for “Ctrl + [Keyboard Windows/Start button]” or “Spacebar + Tab”. The “Alt + Tab” function is so easy to use because the alt and tab keys are sufficiently spaced out, whereas Ctrl and Tab are in the same ’column’ of keys.
The ctrl+tab function was built into Firefox a long time ago (from the beginning, if I’m not mistaken), so everyone is already used to ctrl+tab to switch between the tabs (but Ctrl+Tab - the addon - has improved this tremendously). That is why ctrl+tab is the chosen key combination. Not only that, but ctrl+tab is a keyboard shortcut that is present in many other applications (such as certain Microsoft applications), so it’s rather universal. So if it’s awkward for you, then I have this personal advice to give you: get used to it. It’s not as awkward as you think. All you have to do is move your thumb a little bit to press ctrl instead of tab. Oh, and your hand moves an inch or so too. Perhaps your hand isn’t normal. Have you been to a doctor lately? :)
Tim.H wrote on September 12, 2008 01:41 AM BST ():
Before I begin, I’d like to correct a typo in my reply to Chris: in my first parenthetical statement (at the end of my first sentence), I meant, “but Ctrl-Tab”, not “but Ctrl+Tab”. It’s such a habit to press the Plus key on the keyboard after “Ctrl”. I almost did it there too. :) -End of correction-
I wish I had installed this sooner. I had gotten used to Ctrl+Page Up and Ctrl+Page Down to switch between tabs backwards and forwards, but I always wished that Ctrl+Tab would work like Alt+Tab. Now that it does thanks to “Ctrl-Tab”, I no longer need Ctrl+Page Up or Ctrl+Page Down like I once did. I have a feeling I may still use it here and there, but nowhere near like I used to. I may even stop using them altogether thanks to “Ctrl-Tab”. What a great add-on. Thank you, Dão Gottwald!
Emrys wrote on September 12, 2008 05:08 PM BST ():
Ctrl-Tab is an excellent add-on. But for some reason when I got the latest update, hitting Ctrl+Tab no longer works. Ctrl+Q works fine but the main feature does not. Please help.
Craig wrote on September 16, 2008 12:36 PM BST ():
Hi, love the addon. It’s the way Firefox should always have been IMO. One suggestion: when you close a tab, it would be nice if you were taken back to the tab which is next on the MRU stack. At the moment it seems to take you back to the next left-to-right ordered tab.
George wrote on September 16, 2008 03:13 PM BST ():
Ctrl-Tab 0.19 not showing the ctlr tab preview. besides that I agree as the rest that a key config for shortcuts using letters is going to be really useful.
Great extension, just one request/bug. When closing a tab, can it go to the most recently used tab before that? I hate that I’ll close a tab and the tab closest to the closed tab becomes active, when I really wanted to jump back to the last one I used before that.
I have no clue what this is supposed do that is of any use. Does this only work as pictured in Windows? If so, make this clear so would not have wasted my time downloading, reading instructions, and trying to make it work.
There seems to be an issue when using ctrl + tab (mac) when a “yahoo mail” tab is open, it causes Ctrl-tab to stay open after the tab button has been released
I really like the “ctrl-q” feature, but not the “ctrl-tab” one. For me it would be great if it was possible to disable this one (with a config dialog box or an hidden about:config entry).
I use KDE (linux) at home and in my humble opinion it has the greatest “alt-tab” feature: a vertical list of the windows is displayed, with the application icon on the left. Unlike with the classic Windows alt-tab, I can see very quickly where I am going. If I wanted a “ctrl-tab” feature in Firefox, I think it would behave like in KDE.
For those who don’t want the “ctrl-tab” feature, but only the “ctrl-q” feature (like I wrote in my previous comment), add a “return” at the beginning of the file “ctrlTab.js” like this:
window.addEventListener(“load”, function () {
setTimeout(function () {
tabPreviews.init();
return;
if (gPrefService.getBoolPref(“browser.ctrlTab.mostRecentlyUsed”))
ctrlTab.init();
}, 100);
}, false);
It makes too slow switching between tabs..
(i need only “like Windows Alt-Tab switching” using Ctrl+Tab for tabs switching).
Can I disable “Ctrl+Q all icons and Ctrl+Tab 3 large tab icons” in future versions?
My PC: Pentium 4, 2.4GHz, 512Mb RAM, Windows 2000 SP4, HDD 58Gb (FREE: 52Gb!)
thanks
Es könnte daher sein, dass diese Erweiterung in Zukunft keinen Sinn mehr macht… evtl. kannst du aber die Fx-eigene Funktion noch etwas aufpolieren - z.B. mit der Idee von Faboe. ;)
Ich habe mal einen Screenshot von der neuen Fx-Funktion erstellt:
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~sepe/screensh…s/Strg+Tab.png
=> Sie sieht HAARGENAU so aus wie deine! - Hat sich Mozilla vlt. sogar deinen Code entliehen???
Falls ja, dann herzlichen Glückwunsch zu diesem Erfolg!!! :D
Chapsounet wrote on October 15, 2008 01:18 PM BST ():
As Craig said, It doesn’t work since the 0.19 version… I return to 0.18.3…
But ctrl+q is working with 0.19.3
Maybe a bug with firefox 3.0.3 or another extension ?
Ctrl-tab ne fonctionne pas depuis la version 0.19, il n’affiche pas le bandeau avec les miniatures, donc je suis retourné à la version 0.18.3…
Mais ctrl+q fonctionne parfaitement avec cette version 0.19.3
Peut-etre un bug avec Firefox 3.0.3 ou une autre extension ?
to my previous posters:
Wait for Fx 3.1, it has this function already included! (see my screen shot, follow the link from my post above)
Use the old version in the meantime.
@Dao:
Die Fav-Icons in der Fx-eigenen Funktion fehlen - also doch nicht ganz haargenau das Gleiche!
Es bleibt also Raum fürs Tuning… ;)
please, give the possibility of disabling CTRL+Q… it’s shadows the behaviour of another lovable extension, which is “Show the image”… i really appreciate your extension, too, and i think the CTRL+Q can be easily replaced by CTRL+SHIFT+A or CMD+SHIFT+A. three ways to do the same thing, nice, of course, but what a pity for the other extension which works only with CTRL+Q. i hope you’ll take into account my request and… keep up the good work! :)
nameless wrote on October 17, 2008 02:46 AM BST ():
it would be great if the tab bar can be hidden since it no longer plays an important role.
dr.mario wrote on October 26, 2008 02:49 AM GMT ():
You’re great! But I have the same problem as alerox: CTRL+Q should be made optional. It’s enought just one combo to do do the same job. Please, provide the user with the possibility of chosing what combo to use in order to avoid hiding other useful extension. Thanks in advance.
my screen is 4:3 pattern,but i find that with the update of Ctrl+tab,the default display pattern changes to 16:9,so the thumbnail is very urgly.But Ctrl+tab have no options for this,can you help me?I still use the antique Thinkpad T43.
It does work but when I release CTRL it doesn’t return to the selected Tab but it keep on the empty black background instead.
And after that I cannot view any single tab, neither selecting it with the mouse in the Tab Bar.
EVERY TAB IS BLACK!! :-(
My Firefox version: 3.0.3
My Ctrl-Tab version: 0.19.3
Is a my problem?
Should I wait for the next release?
Hi I have execly this same problem !!
Mia Junk wrote on October 31, 2008 03:45 AM GMT ():
Awesomely useful thank you. Makes for easy tab selection in a tab preview mode for like Ctrl Tab Preview did. I have only one request (for now), how do you make the selected tab in the preview appear larger as in your picture and like Ctrl Tab Preview did. This makes it easier to see and select the tab I want. I realize the selected tab has highlighting around the border but it’s visibility depends upon the theme colors. I think with Chromifox for now it doesn’t show so well. For now I am using your latest released build of the add-on with FF 3.03 on XP SP3.
Is their a way to change the size of the overlay or the windows inside the overlay?
Is their away to change the color scheme?
Great add-on with the potential to be Awesome if i had those options above included.
Bruce Tovac wrote on November 7, 2008 02:47 PM GMT ():
Very useful indeed. I noticed however that when Firefox is using IE engine to view a page (for instance because one is using IE Tab add-on) then the Ctrl-Tab does not work from these tabs!
Attempted User wrote on November 9, 2008 02:56 AM GMT ():
I have another plugin that appears to use the same shortcuts as default.
The Ctrl-Tab plugin doesn’t have anyway of changing the shortcuts, so I had to change the other programs shortcuts to see if this works.
The Ctrl-Tab plugin works. The graphics are slower than my ideal, but still ok. There isn’t an option to change speed or animation effects. (or anything else for that matter)
Shift+Ctrl+A is select all in text boxes which overrides the Ctrl-Tab programs use of Ctrl+Shift+A.
(This program could use a better name too)
CONCLUSION:
Needs preferences to set shortcuts,
and could use faster/smoother operations
(at least for me, others might be ok with it)
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KUbuntu 8.04.1 (64bit version)
Dual Core 2, 2.2GHz WUXGA, NVidia
Hi, Ctrl-Tab extension has become an essential one for my tab browsing and switching (because it’s so beautifully visualizing all the tabs!), so thank you so much for developing it!
I have a feature request/suggestion here: I found that the “hot spots” on the screen for various window management programs very handy (e.g. the screen edges for Compiz or Mac OS X to activate “Exposé” or “Show Desktop” effects), so I wonder if it would be difficult to implement a configurable hot spot or hot zone for Ctrl-Tab preview popup? So that people could hover their mouse cursor over a specific icon (in my memory Tab Catalog has done this) or a zone, or touch a certain side or corner of the screen would open the popup (I suggest the right edge by default, because I have set left edge to auto-open the sidebar, and top and bottom edge for toolbar and status bar already). I’m suggesting this because sometimes I’m too lazy to press the three-key combination o.f Ctrl, Shift and A.
Could you consider this feature? Thank you very much :)
Niklas wrote on November 19, 2008 09:07 AM GMT ():
This doesn’t work when you’re on flashpage. Then it highlights the different elements of the flashpage instead of getting the menu for the tabs (when you use the shortcut keys)
I love this extension. However, for unknown reason, Cmd+Shift+A no longer working for me, I tried adding “browser.allTabs.allWindows();” to keyconfig and map it to the keys yet it still wont work. Can someone be kind to tell me how can I restore this? Thanks in advance!
I absolutely love this extension. However, with Firefox 3.1 it has caused Youtube videos to fair to play more than a second or two. Not sure why, but the problem goes away when I disable the extension.
maybe it’s because i’m on a laptop with a built in graphics card but i have a 1.6ghz, 1.2gb ram yada yada yada and it’s slow as crap.. tab catalog performs better for the CTRL-Q function
Great plugin — doesn’t fully work with Firefox 3.1b2 though. Specifically, although the icon for the grid view in the upper right corner changes, clicking it just brings up the old list view (the keyboard command still works). I’d love an update.
Works great, but I found one small bug - if you have two monitors with different resolutions, and Firefox is open on the secondary monitor, the Ctrl-Tab popup shows up on the correct monitor but seems to have sized itself based on the primary monitor’s resolution. My secondary monitor in in portrait mode, so it’s thinner, and the Ctrl-Tab popup is off-center and partly cut off.
Darksteel wrote on December 17, 2008 04:34 PM GMT ():
CTL+TAB Works great with firefox tabs however I have the IE Tab add-on installed to use with a few of my work web apps, as they do not play nice with firefox, these tabs do not show a preview in CTR+TAB but appear as blank windows. Any ideas?
Atevewr wrote on December 21, 2008 04:46 PM GMT ():
Can you please tell me how to disable it, i am using Minefield, one of the another mozilla projects, i think the extension is kind of inbuilt in Minefield, Please tell me, as it is really buggy
Atevewr wrote on December 21, 2008 04:50 PM GMT ():
actually i figured it out, just i forgot to restart the browser :D
type about:config in browser
browser.ctrlTab.mostRecentlyUsed = false
browser.ctrlTab.smoothScroll= false
Is their a way to change the size of the overlay or the windows inside the overlay
I second that request. It probably doesn’t need to be quite so large for most people..
Very nice extension!
a.dent
mr.Fredrik wrote on January 5, 2009 03:37 PM GMT ():
Really great addon! The only thing i get annoyed about is that i’m really used to the old way firefox uses ctrl+tab where it just jumps to the next tab. Is there a way to get this in this addon or?
Jonathan wrote on January 6, 2009 02:30 AM GMT ():
Any chance a 3.1b2 compatible update will be released? Particularly useful considering that the FF developers removed the ctrl-tab-like functionality from 3.1b2…
I miss my ctrl+tab! ;)
Frenchy (I AM NOT FRENCH) wrote on January 11, 2009 07:48 AM GMT ():
minor glitch I’ve found, Im running adblock plus 1.0.1, ctrltab 0.19.3, foxytunes 3.04, tabrenamizer 0.8.12, update notifier 0.1.5.4, the theme NASA night launch 0.6.20081231 in firefox 3.0.4 and the search bar in the all tabs window dosent disapear when it gets closed
Charlie wrote on January 11, 2009 11:05 PM GMT ():
Love this add on. But for some reason I’m getting a partly cut off (both vertically and horizontally) preview. So i’m only seeing the top left hand part of each tab. I’m using dual monitors, is that why?
Love the app, but it has a bit of an issue with the IE Tab addon.
It works great with normal firefox tabs, but when I have to use IE Tab for a page, pressing CTRL-Tab only goes through the elements of the current page, it doesn’t go to your app to change the tab.
Theres a graphic problem when the grid (CTRL+Q) display over firefox bars. When you hide the grid, the bars stay black (the same colors than the grid). I’m using Ctrl-Tab 0.19.3, FF3 3.0.5, Windows XP SP3 and really old notebook (old video card).
ahmed henawey wrote on January 19, 2009 12:53 PM GMT ():
great addon, nice look.
firefox 3.0.5 + ctrl-tab 0.19.3 – button to access thumbnail view of tabs still works, but not ctrl+tab itself – just switches between tabs without display. Problem?
bei mac blinkt bei cmd+tab nicht gleich die anzeige auf, es wird nur gewechselt. ctrl+tab blinkt immer auf. wäre noch ein feinschliff, das wie cmd+tab zu ändern.
ein paar optionen wären schön. z.b. nächster tab (rechts) und nicht immer die letzten gesehen. vielleicht ein kleines menü zum programm.
Hi Dao.
I’m using your Ctrl-Tab and I think it’s very useful and well done.
Although there is a little visual issue: opening the whole-tabs view, if I exit with ESC key is all ok; if I select (double-click) a tab, backing to Firefox I notice some shadows of the dark background all-tabs window over the upper bar.
Not a real problem, only a bit annoying… I can post you the printscreen image, if you prefer.
Thanks for your effort in developing such a useful addon.
Any chance a 3.1b2 compatible update will be released? Particularly useful considering that the FF developers removed the ctrl-tab-like functionality from 3.1b2…
I miss my ctrl+tab! ;)
Same very much concerned here!.. Jonathan, why did FF devs removed this gem since after Shiretoko? They could have simply disabled it in about:config .. anyone knows more on this where to shout? ;)
Thanks huge a pint!
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sledge
Jason Herman wrote on March 1, 2009 04:27 PM GMT ():
Any idea why this add-on doesn’t display properly with the ifox theme?
Hey, ich finde deine Erweiterung wirklich super, aber mir fehlt da noch etwas …
Wenn ich strg+tab drücke, werden nur die Tabs im aktuellen Fenster angezeigt.
Hier sollten auch alle Tabs angezeigt werden!
My firefox crashed after update new version. I used this add-ons for years but how come it like this???? I can’t even go to safemode. Anyone knows how to disable this addon manually??? So disappointed! >.<
Great add-on, but is that normal that the top-right icon disappeared? I’m talking about the one that makes a preview of all tabs, similar to keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Q.
Whitey1600 wrote on March 18, 2009 05:19 PM GMT ():
How do I cycle through tabs instead of switching between 2 tabs. I am not sure what option I changed in either Firefox or Ctrl Tab but I wish to cycle through tabs a]not just switch between 2 tabs. When I disable the add on I can cycle using ctrl tab buttons. As of now I can only switch between the current and previous tabs.
contact me at Auburnfreak89@aol.com
this is my junk email address so I may not respond for a while, Thanks
when using “Dark Revisited” them, all tabs have “extra” height from up and down, which makes them look so much uglier.
I love this theme, but I can’t stop using this extension. Is there a solution?
With the latest version on the Mac, you can’t ctrl-tab between tabs unless system-wide full keyboard access is enabled. This is not right. Full Keyboard access should only affect elements that are not normally designed to be accessed with the keyboard, which is most definitely not the case with this extension.
Small problem. Firefox 3.0.1.0 Mac OS X 10.5.7. cmd+shift+a leaves a visual artifact over the tabs and toolbars.
The menu renders over top of the toolbars and tabs and when you select a tab and go to it, the portion of the tab menu over the toolbars / tabs does not get removed.
great addon, nice look.
firefox 3.0.5 + ctrl-tab 0.19.3 – button to access thumbnail view of tabs still works, but not ctrl+tab itself – just switches between tabs without display. Problem?
ich finde das Addon echt Super, allerdings funktioniert seit meinem Browser-Update auf FF 3.5 die Funktion CTRL+SHIFT+TAB für das zurückgehen der Tabs nicht mehr. Da passiert jetzt das gleiche wie CTRL+A.
Wäre echt nett, wenn es da in den nächsten Tagen ein Update zu geben könnte, denn das rückwärtsspringen in den Tabs ist nicht ganz unwichtig.
Will Van Eaton wrote on July 6, 2009 03:28 PM BST ():
I run Firefox 3.5 on Leopard 10.5.7 and use Ctrl-Tab 0.20. I used an earlier version before I updated to Firefox 3.5 and now I can’t cycle through the tabs by pressing Tab several times. I can manipulate the pop-up with my mouse, but pressing Tab and pressing it again (while holding Ctrl) does not move me to the next window. I don’t know if anyone else has this problem or if it’s just me. Thank you
David Kaufman wrote on July 8, 2009 04:07 AM BST ():
I love this addon! I recently installed FF 3.5.30729 (beta 4) and now Ctrl-Q only displays previews for the pages that are open in tabs of the *current* FF window, not all windows as before – to see all the other tabs from the other FF windows, I have to go to each one and press Ctrl-Q to see its pages… is is just me or is there some configuration option I can change to get the old behavior back? I always have so many open windows, with so many open tabs in each one, that I’ve grown very dependent on this feature and now I miss it sorely
Ctrl-Tab for FF 3.5 is based on a slightly different design specification and also has a revised code base. Support for showing tabs from all windows has been removed, but it’ll probably come back as an opt-in possibility.
David Kaufman wrote on July 9, 2009 02:54 PM BST ():
Dao > Ctrl-Tab for FF 3.5 is based on a slightly different design specification and
Dao > also has a revised code base. Support for showing tabs from all windows
Dao > has been removed, but it’ll probably come back as an opt-in possibility.
No worries. I found one that does what I need: FoxTab! It’s a bit, er heavy, but lets me search *all* open tabs, which is what I always need to do.
This addon is _WAY_ better than FoxTab (which is _FAR_ too slow and uses that flash crap) however currently i too am experiencing issues. however ctrl-shift-a still works - which has always been the most useful view - this completely dwarfs the latest other browser’s ’improvements’. continue the great work!!!
In OSX, tab icons don’t highlight when selecting them in the ctrl-tab dialog window. Hitting tab doesnt appear to highlight and of the screens, any ideas?
Upon further examination, it seems you cannot tab through the tabs in OS X. The next tab is highlighted by default, but you can’t cycle over to another tab. There’s a bug that doesn’t let you do this.
Ctrl-Tab for FF 3.5 is based on a slightly different design specification and also has a revised code base. Support for showing tabs from all windows has been removed, but it’ll probably come back as an opt-in possibility.
Please reinstate this functionality for FF3.5 since it’s my main use for Ctrl-Tab!
Ermesto Domato wrote on July 24, 2009 04:20 AM BST ():
Ctrl-Tab has changed dramatically form 0.18.3 since the ctrl-tab behavior is not the same as the one explained on this page. If you press the ctrl-tab combination it behaves like the default Firefox, just going to the next tab. This is on Linux with Firefox 3.0.11
WildcatRay wrote on July 27, 2009 03:19 PM BST ():
Dao,
A heads-up, maybe? The ctrl-tab-0.20-fx.xpi file I just downloaded from AMO still has Fx 3.1b4pre set as its upper compatible range even though it is listed on AMO as compatible with Fx 3.5.1. I downloaded it from the View Older Versions page. (I maintain an archive of the ~40 add-ons I use so that I don’t have to download all those add-ons one at a time when building a new profile.)
Same here. On Ubuntu Linux 9.04 x86_64 FF 3.5.1, Ctrl+Tab 0.20 simply cycles among open tabs (not last used order). Not very useful. The previous versions did last used ordering.
Same here. On Ubuntu Linux 9.04 x86_64 FF 3.5.1, Ctrl+Tab 0.20 simply cycles among open tabs (not last used order). Not very useful. The previous versions did last used ordering.
Ok- scratch that. I noticed about:config shows “browser.ctrlTab.mostRecentlyUsed” was overridden to false. Setting this back to true and restarting FF 3.5.1 fixed my problem.
Combine this add-on with Tab Renamizer, and PLEASE show tabs from all windows. The combination of showing tabs from all windows and Tab Renamizer is PERFECT. The tab names stop changing, and the way back to most used tabs can hardly be faster.
Most excellent add-on from usability point of view - but I miss a possibility to rearrange the tabs from the all tabs preview (I want to be able to click Shift+Ctrl+A & then drag & drop tab preview to reorder tabs).
Good addon, recently started using it again but the glass in show all tabs is gone!!
can you put it back?
fidoez wrote on September 3, 2009 09:13 PM BST ():
Version 0.20 installed for all users of one maschine with “firefox.exe -install-global-extension 0.20.xpi” does not work (Message "Not compatible with Firefox 3.5.2)
socialflea wrote on September 4, 2009 07:50 PM BST ():
Simply one of the best add-ons for Firefox 3.0. I didn’t feel it was necessary yet to upgrade to Firefox 3.5. I am running Ubuntu 8.04.3 with Firefox 3.0.13 and I notice that with ctrl+tab you need to have three or more tabs open for it to work correctly. No big, I like it that way!
socialflea wrote on September 4, 2009 07:59 PM BST ():
Sorry I meant when pressing the keyboard combination ’ctrl+tab’ it only works correctly when you have three or more tabs open.
LuzdeLuna wrote on September 13, 2009 05:16 PM BST ():
I have the same problem. When I press ctrl+tab, it just switches between tabs, with no preview. I uninstalled some addons which I thought may interfere with this one, but with no success.
As I set browser.ctrlTab.mostRecentlyUsed to True, ctrl+tab navigation began to work, but It seem different with the screenshot above.
My system is WinXP SP3 + firefox 3.5.2
LusdeLuna wrote on September 13, 2009 05:23 PM BST ():
And I’ve discovered that it takes snapshot of about 1/4 of the screen, but I do not know whether it was intended to. It would be great if I could change some settings.
I’ve just switched from foxtab, cause it has been sucking up my cpu…
Jim Remich wrote on September 16, 2009 03:05 PM BST ():
I have the latest version that was required for FireFox 3.5.3, but it is not working the way it did before. CTRL-Shift-A only shows shots of open tabs of the one open FireFox instead of all the Open FireFoxes.
My System is Windows XP Pro
maccamb wrote on October 17, 2009 01:26 AM BST ():
Hello,
Sometimes I like to navigate tabs using most-recently-used and sometimes I like to navigate them in linear order. Would it be possible to add a key modifier (e.g. Shift) that would allow using the linear order of tab selection?
Sometimes I like to navigate tabs using most-recently-used and sometimes I like to navigate them in linear order. Would it be possible to add a key modifier (e.g. Shift) that would allow using the linear order of tab selection?
Ctrl+PageUp/Down uses the linear order.
funomat wrote on October 20, 2009 08:47 AM BST ():
Nachdem ich zwischenzeitlich FoxTabs installiert hatte und jetzt wieder entfernt habe, funktioniert Strg-Tab nicht mehr richtig!! Strg+Shift+A und Strg+Q funktionieren wie gehabt aber Strg+Tab geht jetzt nicht mehr! Ein Tipp wie ich das ohne Neuinstallation vom FF wieder zum laufen bekomme?
Windows XP Pro, FF 3.5.3, Strg-Tab 2.0
I, too, prefer to navigate tabs in linear order. I know that ctrl-pgup/dwn will do this, but why not just have it as an option for CTRL-TAB? It would be nice not to have to change keystrokes completely to make this trivial change…
I tried changing the “browser.ctrlTab.mostRecentlyUsed to False but it doesn’t seem to make a difference.
I noted that if I open a new tab with Ctrl-T, the new tab is opened next to the actual tab, maybe ’cause I have “Tabs Open Relative” addon, but in the summarize grid the new tab is in the last position. It return in the right place only after I have moved the tab right and back one position.
i’m using FF3.5.5 (Win XP Pro SP3) and hv problem at 1st. It does not browse through tabs as it suppose to, then change that “browser.ctrlTab.mostRecentlyUsed” to true and it works like a charm, just like my other pc using FF3.0.x.
After changing from FF 3.0.x to 3.5.5 behavior of ctrl-tab has changed gravely. Before I could page through all open tabs of one FF-window. Now I can only flip through the 7 thumbs initially visible when pressing Strg-tab rather than all open ones or alternatively select a show all button that did not use to be there. As I often have more than 20 tabs open in a FF-Window I would really like to be able to page through all of them rather than having the additional step of first showing them all.
Actually, the addons seems to work fine when overriding compatibility.
Only: Somehow, the bookmark sidebar is not populated when its open at startup. It only fills after closing and reopening it.
Adam Alton wrote on January 19, 2010 11:07 AM GMT ():
This doesn’t seem to work on OS X unless you’ve got “Tab to move keyboard focus between:” set to “All controls” in system preferences.
Pressing ctrl tab brings up the tab switcher, but pressing tab again doesn’t switch to the next tab. This is odd, as it can obviously detect the initial tab press (when you press ctrl tab) but pressing tab again does nothing.
I noticed when I upgraded to the beta that my browser stopped saving my tabs/windows when I exited, something I had never had problems with before. I searched and did some troubleshooting based upon Mozilla support and advice on the internet, but nothing helped. Finally, I uninstalled all of my add-ons, and it went back to working. I re-installed all of the add-ons one by one and everything was fine until I installed Ctrl-Tab. Once it was installed, I exited Firefox and noted that it hadn’t asked me if I wanted to save the tabs before closing. When I re-opened the browser, none of the tabs from my previous session were there. I then uninstalled Ctrl-Tab and now the tabs are saved again. Not sure why this is happening, since I thought that it had been updated to work with the beta. Was I mistaken?
I’ll keep checking back to see if it will work without problems, as I found it to be an incredibly useful extension.
The ctrl+Tab extension is awesome and I could not live without it! But I have one minor suggestion for it. Make it possible to organise and drag & drop the tabs using the grid view.
Perhaps a simple little ’grab’ handle in the top left corner of each tile (like the close ’handle’ in the top right when you hover over it)?
The behavior for ctrl+shift+tab is confusing. Without this extension, I can use Ctrl+tab to go to the next tab, and ctrl+shift+tab to go back to the previous tab. This extension hijacks ctrl+shift+tab to do something completely different.
I installed the add-on and it simply doesn’t work. It shows up in my add-ons menu,
but hitting ctrl+tab does what it’s always done…simply advance to the next tab.
Also, the settings button in the add-on menu is there but greyed-out.
I’m a little ticked off. I’m running Firefox 3.6 on Windows 7. In installed your add-on, didn’t like an aspect of it, so I uninstalled it. But it’s still functioning on my Firefox install! What the hell? Now I have no instance of it in my add-ons list, so there’s nothing to remove, but when I press ctrl+tab, sure enough it brings up the display of the open tabs, and switches back and forth between the two most recently used tabs instead of linearly switching between the tabs. This is really pissing me off. I am not liking the idea of reinstalling Firefox.
I seem to be observing the same behavior as Matt above: I had the extension on under FF 3.6 on Vista, and it wasn’t properly highlighting the selected tab after hitting ctrl-tab (and then further hits on tab didn’t show the highlight moving). So I decided to try disabling the extension and restarted Firefox. To my surprise the extension was still active as I saw no change in behavior…
[Or is it that your extension is now part of the standard 3.6 ???]
Michael wrote on February 18, 2010 12:32 PM GMT ():
Seit ich den Firefox von 3.5.x (3.5.8) auf 3.6 aktualisiert habe passen die Farben nicht mehr, der Hintergrund ist weiß und nicht mehr dunkel/grau und es ist nicht mehr erkennbar, welches Tab markiert ist. Der Rahmen ist nicht mehr sichtbar, oder farblich nicht mehr erkennbar.
FF 3.6
Win7 Enterprise
und “Office 2007 Black” Theme, falls das wegen der Farben einen Einfluß hat!?
Whitewolfcan wrote on February 18, 2010 06:20 PM GMT ():
I also have the problem of this extension not uninstalling properly. However, you can completely turn it off by setting the browser.allTabs.previews parameter in about:config to false
Nathan Spears wrote on February 25, 2010 08:10 PM GMT ():
Hi there,
I use ctrl-tab a lot in win/linux but when I tried to switch in osx 10.6(holding ctrl and pressing tab) the tabs dont change…
Do os x needs some config to ctrl-tab to work?
Is there any chance to improve cooperation with TabGroups Manager plugin?
In particular, Ctrl-Tab’s tab grid shows content of all active groups, not just of the focused group. The same for the ctrl-tab navigation.
Hi, I love this addon but am sad to see that the original tab-list drop down menu has completely disappeared. In some cases I found the traditional list quicker than the grid view.
Would it be possible to add an option to keep the traditional drop-down list button in addition to the grid-view button?
hi all.Is there any way of uninstalling this addon without removing firefox?Even if I have uninstalled this addon, it is still functioning.If anyone knows how to, please write it down.
wasd: The ctrl+tab functionality is built into Firefox 3.6, therefore uninstalling this addon will not stop the built in functionality working. To disable the built in ctrl+tab feature you need to set browser.ctrlTab.previews to false in about:config. You can also set the browser.allTabs.previews setting to false to remove the button at the end of the tab bar.
look, if it worked it’d be great- same problem as a poster above, installed it, options button greyed out- does nothing and uninstalled it. Tried again, still does nothing- waste of 10 minutes. FF V3.5.9
this is a great add-on. Please consider add two additional features to future releases:
1. Add a keyboard shortcut to bring out the tab “filter” window
2. Allow right click to show the original tab list drop-down menu
Ctrl-Tab
