Look Ahead With TabScope – A Firefox Add-on
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Does this happen to you? You find a great article with several links in it. You’re still reading the article, but you for sure don’t want to miss out on those links. So you open each of them up in a new window in Firefox. Soon you have several tabs open and while you can Ctrl-tab through them, you may find it quicker to use an add-on I recently discovered.
With something called TabScope you can roll your mouse over the tabs in your Firefox browser and it will give you a thumbnail of the site. I was impressed with the speed at which it worked; didn’t experience any lag time.
Thumbnail too small? No problem, just click on the enlarge icon and get a boost. Still not enough, then you can configure the add-on with several choices in size.
[tags]Firefox, add-ons[/tags]
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November 21, 2007 at 4:22 am
Nice idea, but I generally find I want to visit more links in the post I’ve opened in the next tab. The downside to this is then I open five windows from that and then a further five windows and before I know it Firefox is using 200MB of memory and dragging like nothing on earth!
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November 21, 2007 at 7:50 am
@Keiron
I know what you mean! Hehehe. Thanks for commenting here. I appreciate it!
November 21, 2007 at 3:44 pm
I used to have this but then I found myself clicking on more links
. Now I’m back to dozens of open tabs with Firefox eating up 3-400 megs of memory 
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November 21, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Looks pretty interesting! I’ll have to give this one a try. If I ever have less than 15 tabs open at a time, then it’s a very slow day for me.
November 21, 2007 at 5:30 pm
@Aaron
Hey buddy! A power browser, I see. I knew it!
November 21, 2007 at 5:31 pm
@Baron
If Aaron’s a power browser, then that must make you a super-duper mega browser!
November 21, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Yep, you bet! Anything less and my attention would quickly wander elsewhere.
Btw, I wanted to make sure to wish you and your family a very wonderful and deliciously awesome Thanksgiving holiday!
Shine on,
Aaron
November 21, 2007 at 5:42 pm
@Aaron
Hey thanks, buddy, and you too! I’m glad that you’re feeling better so that you can partake in the festivities yourself. Woo-hoo!
November 22, 2007 at 3:51 am
Arrrghh… I’ve just cleared down the 1,000s of unread posts I have in Google Reader, starred more items than I care to think about, and got 72 open firefox tabs!!
It’ll be months before I get time to read them, by then the amount of starred items will triple…
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November 22, 2007 at 8:52 am
@Keiron
Ah yes, the joys of surfing the Web. You didn’t have anything else planned this weekend, did you?
November 22, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Far too much unfortunately!!! Yourself?
Keiron’s last blog post is: Time to Sell Up – and Ship Out!
November 22, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Thanks for the little visual plug there, buddy ;P
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November 22, 2007 at 9:12 pm
@Keiron
Hehe…just trying to get the decorations up while the weather holds out.
@Mike
You’re welcome, buddy!
November 23, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Thanks for sharing, it looks quite helpful. However I do believe I will always have an endless amount of links I want to look at and this only helps waste my time some more. That’s my problem, though.
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November 23, 2007 at 9:22 pm
@Tay
We’re alike in that regard — always wanting to see what’s around the corner.
November 24, 2007 at 10:15 pm
I’ll def give this a try.
I only recently found out the joy of using firefox addons.
November 24, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Dude, you’ve been missing out.