Real-time Thumbnail Preview for Firefox tabs

Tab Scope is one among those innovation Firefox extensions, which tries to improve our browsing experience and make us more productive. This extension adds real time thumbnail preview to tabs, and does it better than any other extension I’ve seen so far. Whenever you hover your cursor over tabs, it’ll show up small thumbnail of the page. It’s quite similar to the real-time preview seen in Vista’s task bar, but with extra functionalities which let you control that page.

tabscope

You can navigate forward and backward, stop the page from loading, enlarge the thumbnail preview or even close the tab right from the real-time preview itself. All these can be done using simple six buttons located just over the preview.

Plus more, you can actually click on links and buttons available on the page from the preview itself. The extension also allows you to change the dimensions of the real-time preview from the options menu. I read about this extension here. Ryan was right; this extension is indeed an awesome productivity booster!

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This post was published by on September 16, 2007

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  • http://www.wisetome.com/splat Vyoma

    Neat. :) Thanks for pointing it out.

    By the way, on a side note, what is that in the screenshot there? A new TechBuzz design? Looking forward for that if that is the case.

  • http://www.wisetome.com/splat Vyoma

    Wohoo! It is a redesign. :)

  • http://www.aruntheace.com AruntheACE

    Firefox is better even for now. No need for this thumbnails..

  • Walter Earnshaw

    Hi_There
    tried the about:config. Unfortunately, I do not have the
    showSingleWindowModePrefs that you suggest I change. Please, have you any other suggestions?

    elwaltura

  • Ramana Rajgopaul

    This innovation is bound to be welcomed by all those who use the mouse to navigate their way around a computer screen. The thumb nail sketch indeed helps in deciding which tab to use for what purpose, and saves time in opening and closing tabs before hitting the right one.

    Since home users are the increasing end users, and most of them not quite computer savvy, this innovation will be very useful and minimize frustration.

  • Ramnath R

    Hi,

    That’s indeed a neat little functionality. Firefox is improving and has never ceased to impress. This is particularly good for users on a dial-up line, who would want to preview a feature and close the window if the content is not what they are looking for. Keep up the good work Mozilla!

  • Reena Daruwalla

    These Firefox extensions sound really interesting, maybe I’ll try them out.

  • Pramath Malik

    Hmm. I am an opera user. I love the mouse gestures too much. But this seems cool. Worth a download I guess.

  • http://www.contentandseozone.us.tt Alet Viegas

    Nothing new here….Firefox has been giving IE a run for its money for a quite a while now. Even the keyboard shortcuts are awesome…IE 7 allows its users to see a screen shot of all the tabs by simply using Ctrl+Q ….I don’t think Firefox has it….or have I missed it…Let me know if there is….BTW Pramath…Opera has a few drawbacks….If you want me to burst the bubble let me know…I can update you…or simply Google it….You will definitely be amazed you survived with Opera so far….

  • NTG (Natasha Khanna)

    The Tab scope is a very interesting application which will allow users to increase their productivity particularly in the IT sector where multi tasking is essential. The tool will decrease the time for multi tasking between windows to see loaded content and navigate to the needed page. An IT company in Chennai, India has measured the productivity which has increased due to this invention. All in all, it is a useful add-on, I love using it!

  • http://www.linksbuilding.net asso

    I am an internet explorer user ,but recently started using firefox i like it

  • chrisat

    I had been using IE for any yrs but when I moved on to firefox I have started going for it.Great and works faster than IE.Anyone who starts using it are after it then

  • Geetha K C

    Firefox is excellent even before. Now with this new innovation, it will become the favorite browser. This new technology will save time and money and will improve the efficiency of IT personnels.

  • http://firefoxisbetter.com/firefox Editor

    I love it! The Fox keeps getting Foxier!