We all have web sites we keep checking back on day after day, while we browse the Web. Maybe you are checking for news in Google Reader? Perhaps you are checking your mail in Gmail? You could be following your favorite forum too. The App Tabs add-on for Firefox will let you shrink your favorite web site applications to a favicon-sized tab, so it can be there handy when you need it.
When you change a regular tab into an app tab, it moves it to the left side of the tab bar and shrinks the tab down to the size of the favicon shown for the web site. I have to have four or five browsers open just to cover all my bases on a day to day bases – so getting any type of extra tab real estate in Firefox is a good thing for me.
To open a new App tab, just right click the tab bar and select App Tab from the context menu. When your done with an App tab, just close it – or you can set it to restore the App tab every time you start the browser.
If you want to enjoy this Firefox 4 feature before it becomes a standard, the App Tabs add-on for Firefox is the perfect tool for the job.
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