What's the best firefox add-on for previewing/managing a bunch of tabs that are on the same site and look alike in thumbnails, but can be distinguished by their text? I have bunches of tabs open and the tab bar becomes utterly useless, so I need an add-on (not just thumbnail-based) that can do much better.
posted by shivohum on Nov 9, 2009 - 2 answers

With Firefox 3 you could drag a tab from one FF window to the another with the tab bar closed. Is there any way to get 3.5 to do that? [more inside]
posted by aerotive on Oct 29, 2009 - 2 answers

I'm looking for examples of families of websites that have tabs along the top of each page that give universal access to sibling sites. Examples I've seen: Gap, Sears, and Threadless. Anyone seen any others?
posted by roscopcoletrane on Oct 16, 2009 - 12 answers

I'm looking for a Firefox add-on that would open a note pad into a new tab. [more inside]
posted by FunkyHelix on Jul 24, 2009 - 5 answers

Why does Firefox randomly break out one of my tabs in a new window? [more inside]
posted by daHIFI on Jul 16, 2009 - 5 answers

Will car insurance still cover a car with expired tabs? [more inside]
posted by mcstayinskool on Jun 30, 2009 - 10 answers

Is it better to have links open in a new window, or to open in the same window? Maybe this belongs in projects, but I'll ask here. When I launched my magazine site in January, I had links opening in a new window. But then, I noticed that the sites I liked the most, like Kottke and Metafilter, didn't do this. Instead of opening a new window they had links go straight to the page they were linking to. [more inside]
posted by Stephen Elliott on Jun 7, 2009 - 41 answers

Firefox Fail: Sometimes I cannot click links on the tab that is in focus. Hovering over links does not make finger images or clickable links. Hovering over (current tab's) blank spaces, which are linked areas on the tab below, makes those lower links active (yes, I can click on them). Grah! It can be fixed by alt-tabbing to a different program and back (another FF window is insufficient) or restarting Firefox. [more inside]
posted by whatzit on May 12, 2009 - 5 answers

Suggestions for classical guitar tab? [more inside]
posted by starman on May 6, 2009 - 6 answers

Looking for a way to use Firefox keyboard shortcuts with Safari 4 on the Mac [more inside]
posted by mck9235 on Apr 26, 2009 - 5 answers

does anyone know the guitar chords/ tab for Chad Vangaalen's echo train? PLease....
posted by madmamasmith on Apr 17, 2009 - 3 answers

Is there any way with CSS to position text with regular distances on lines; just like the old tabulator stop did on a typewriter, or does in a wordprocessor? Or is it back to tables to get this trick done? [more inside]
posted by ijsbrand on Mar 5, 2009 - 15 answers

Why is Firefox duplicating my tabs? [more inside]
posted by pdb on Dec 29, 2008 - 4 answers

What are your favourite non-general guitar tab/chord sites? [more inside]
posted by ageispolis on Dec 13, 2008 - 17 answers

Are there any browsers that will allow me to open multiple links in one click? [more inside]
posted by auralcoral on Nov 15, 2008 - 12 answers

I'm looking for guitar tablature sites similar to Dansm's that are created by one person out of a labor of love, as opposed to OLGA-type "tab archives" like Ultimate-guitar.com. [more inside]
posted by bondcliff on Jul 28, 2008 - 6 answers

Name. Tab. Phone number. This creates two columns. One for name and one for phone number, except--when someone has a really long name that goes past the tab setting and impinges on the phone number area. Is there some sort of tab setting that will make that long name wrap around, creating a second line within its own name area? For the record, I know I could use a table to do exactly this, but I'm reformatting a huge amount of text that is already laid out with tabs. Any advice for this poor sap who accepted the job? The text is in an InDesign document, but I can copy it to a word processor or anything that would do the trick. Thanks!
posted by largecorp on Jul 18, 2008 - 13 answers

What's wrong with my CSS that makes top the nav render like this or this on some browsers, and how can I fix it? [more inside]
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane on Jul 10, 2008 - 15 answers

In Firefox, I use the middle button of my mouse to open links in a new tab. I really wish I could do that with gmail (i.e., middle click on several emails and have them open each in a new tab, or middle click on "compose mail" so that would open in a new tab). Is there any way to do that? [more inside]
posted by The Dutchman on Jun 12, 2008 - 7 answers

When I try to create a tab using Filemaker Pro 8.0v2 on my Mac (OS version 10.4.11), it displays correctly in "edit" mode. But when I enter data-entry mode, FM "sees through" the tab - and displays all fields (from all the tabs) stacked on top of one another. Clicking the other tabs, I see the same thing - all fields stacked. [more inside]
posted by cg1 on May 13, 2008 - 2 answers

Is it possible to trim Vista Breadcrumb sections so that the breadcrumb bar doesn't clip off most of the path in long titles? I.e. anything over say, 10 characters gets cropped, so that long paths can be shown? Also, is there a way to fix the glitchy second row of tabs in firefox? I want the second row of tabs to have the same height as the first, so that graphics don't go all screwy.
posted by lrodman on Mar 13, 2008 - 0 answers

Firefox javascript command: how to close a tab? Last week you helped me create a toolbar bookmark for scrolling down a half page in Firefox using the command javascript:self.scrollBy(0,300); as seen here. Now I'd like to add a second command to that bookmark: a command to close the active tab. The button then would close the active tab and subsequently scroll down a half page of the next tab that appears. In my reading there appears to be some difficulty making using javascript to close tabs in FF 2.0, and not all pre FF 2.0 solutions currently work. Ideas?
posted by bbranden1 on Jan 12, 2008 - 5 answers

The scrollwheel-click has suddenly stopped working in Firefox. I don't recall making any changes in preferences, but all of a sudden, what used to open up links in new tabs, no longer does so. Instead wheel-clicking on a link does nothing. Any idea how to fix this problem? I feel like I'm browsing with one less finger! (Mac OSX.4.11, Firefox 2.0.0.11, Safari is unaffected by the problem.) [more inside]
posted by ruwan on Dec 13, 2007 - 6 answers

How do you manage a lot of open browser tabs? [more inside]
posted by dhoe on Aug 7, 2007 - 19 answers

Firefox opens a blank "(untitled)" tab when downloading certain files used by helper applications such as torrent files, or .smil files which are processed by a homegrown vb app. How can I suppress these blank tabs or force them to autoclose? I thought I saw an addon or greasemonkey script to do this at some point, but can't find one now.
posted by Manjusri on Jul 1, 2007 - 7 answers

Is there a way for me to send someone a bundle of URLs in such a way that all the URLs will just open in Firefox as tabs, without the person having to actually go through and click on each one? [more inside]
posted by bingo on May 12, 2007 - 10 answers

How do I convert guitar tabulature to mandolin tabs? [more inside]
posted by dhruva on Apr 3, 2007 - 22 answers

Help me find "picking-heavy" guitar tabs for acoustic guitar!! [more inside]
posted by Phire on Feb 25, 2007 - 14 answers

I had a dream in which I was helping a friend figure out chords to a song on a piano. I woke up not remembering the song, but remembering the chords. Can you help me figure out if this is a song? [more inside]
posted by Eringatang on Feb 23, 2007 - 11 answers

Can I make Firefox 2 for Mac open URL's called by an external application like NetNewsWire by reusing an existing open tab with the same URL, instead of opening a new tab? [more inside]
posted by dglynn on Jan 27, 2007 - 7 answers

Anyone know of a good alternative to www.NetVibes.com? I need to be able to create tabs and put a list of bookmarks and maybe RSS feeds underneath each tab. [more inside]
posted by HotPatatta on Nov 9, 2006 - 6 answers

In Firefox, is there a way to "Open All in Tabs" in a bookmark folder without closing the ones I already have open? If so, is there a way to have that happen by default when I "Open All in Tabs?" [more inside]
posted by callmejay on Oct 30, 2006 - 4 answers

Help me to find guitar tabs/chords for childrens songs. [more inside]
posted by djstig on Sep 5, 2006 - 7 answers

I swear I once saw a PDF with tabbed navigation along the bottom edge of the pages, kind of like what you'd see on an Excel workbook. How do I set up that effect? [more inside]
posted by mochapickle on Jul 31, 2006 - 1 answer

Can I get rid of the "open in new tab" option on the right-click menu in firefox? [more inside]
posted by pornucopia on Jul 22, 2006 - 12 answers

Has anyone previously published a JavaScript methodology for using the Tab key to indent while within HTML textarea controls? [more inside]
posted by cyrusdogstar on Apr 23, 2006 - 13 answers

I'd love to be able to simultaneously open in Firefox tabs the URLs in a del.icio.us bundle. [more inside]
posted by font_snob on Mar 10, 2006 - 4 answers

Help me make middle clicking open a new tab in Firefox for me at work. [more inside]
posted by chiababe on Feb 28, 2006 - 7 answers

Firefox extensions: anyone know of one for saving all my tabs upon exit? [MI] [more inside]
posted by DaShiv on Feb 11, 2005 - 9 answers

I can't seem to get Firefox tabs to work in the way I want them to. (more inside) [more inside]
posted by ralawrence on Jan 14, 2005 - 15 answers

How do I load a series of different URLs into different windows/tabs as fast as possible? The reason I ask is that a regular train ride I take stops for about 15 seconds at a station with wireless access. I'd like to load pages which I can then read for the rest of the trip but even opening new windows and launching bookmarks is manual and slow. Any ingenious ideas?
posted by vacapinta on Nov 15, 2004 - 11 answers

Firefox question. Unmodified, just-installed firefox opens a new tab behind the current tab, instead of on top as Mozilla does; and the right-click popup menu for tabs does not have "close this tab" first in the list, as in Mozilla. Are these two behaviors customizable? I know I'm being lazy but these two misfeatures are deal-killers for me. If you knowledgeable firefox users tell me they're fixable in userChrome.css or users.js or whatever I promise I'll rtfm-rtfm-rtfm and become as rabid a firefox zealot as you might desire. But if they're not changeable then it's all wasted effort and I'll stay with Mozilla (or whatever they're calling it this week.) Thanks!
posted by jfuller on Sep 25, 2004 - 11 answers

What is your preferred method for googling or otherwise searching for guitar tabs?

(I will be buying some as well, but not everything I want is officially published). [more inside]
posted by mecran01 on Jun 7, 2004 - 18 answers

As I begin to learn the piano again, there are some songs I'd love to try to play but for which I cannot find sheet music (I definitely want to learn to play by ear at some point, but I don't think that point would best be now). I can however obtain guitar tabs for the songs, and so I'm hoping to try to translate those into rough sheet music for the piano. Can I just translate it note by note (and chord by chord), or are there some specifics about guitar tabs I should be aware about and take into account (it seems that way, a quick direct translation didn't seem to turn out quite right)? [more inside]
posted by thebabelfish on Feb 29, 2004 - 14 answers

On the movie version of Pink Floyd's The Wall, there's a short instrumental piece before "In The Flesh" (I think), with a guitar and flute, the guitar part starts something like this:

E||-----------------0----|----------------------|-----------------0----|----------------------|-----------------0----|-----------------||
B||------------1---------|--1-------------------|------------1---------|--1-------------------|------------1---------|--1--------------||
G||-------2--------------|-------2---------2----|-------2--------------|-------2---------2----|-------2--------------|-------2---------||
D||--2-------------------|------------2---------|--3-------------------|------------3---------|--4-------------------|------------4----||
A||----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|-----------------||
E||----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|-----------------||

Does anybody know the history or name of the piece, and hopefully have an accurate tab of it? I've played it forever but never seem to have got it quite right.
posted by signal on Dec 25, 2003 - 4 answers