So I’m on a bit of a Firefox kick today 🙂 Here is another Firefox extension that is defintely worth your time: foXpose. It is kind of like Expose for Firefox tabs. It provides your with a button and a keyboard shortcut to display thumbnails of all the open tabs in Firefox. Clicking on one of the thumbnails will return you to normal browsing with corresponding tab brought to the forefront. This extension requires Firefox 1.5 or higher.
I tried this first on my PowerBook G4 1.25GHz system with Mac OS X 10.4.3. The extension works fine, but there is a noticable delay from the time that you push the foXpose button until the thumbnail view comes up. The delay is huge, perhaps 2 seconds (plus or minus a bit), but it is noticable. Clicking on a thumbnail responds quickly though. Even with the brief delay this is still a great plugin.
Just to see if the delay was specific to Mac OS X I tried this out on a Windows XP system running on a P4 1.8GHz. The results were pretty much the same as on the PowerBook. There is still a slight delay, with clicking on a thumbnail returning quickly. I’ve got a newer (read: faster) system and home that I’ll try this out and and see if I get the same results.
Thanks to Gadgetopia for pointing out foXpose.