Posts Tagged ‘tabs’

Firefox Add-on BarTap – How Did I Live Without It?

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Windows Update in the middle of the night = Firefox restart.  Find a great new Add-on for your browser = Firefox restart.  Browser crashes = Firefox restart.  There are so many reasons why you might find yourself in the middle of a waiting game with Firefox, but so few tools to help your browser through the process of reloading all of those tabs.  If you have ever sat and watched as Firefox attempts to “restore your previous session” then you know what I am talking about.  All of your tabs appear, but it could take a minute or five, depending on how many tabs you had open before the restart was needed.

Firefox Reloading Tabs after Restart

I am a tab person.  If I see a link that I want to check out later, I right-click and “open in a new tab.”  My thought process are arranged by windows and each tab is a work in progress.  I jump around from tab to tab and use them as reminders of what I was researching, working on or playing.  To me, they are kind of like post-it-notes.  Thankfully, Firefox added the ability to restore sessions a few years back.  Until then, my thoughts and projects would vanish.  Until this morning, I would just have to wait patiently as all of those “dot circles” finally turned into real icons.  I assumed that this was just part of life and something that I was gong to have to deal with on a regular basis.

(more…)

Simplify Your Browser and Increase Your Internet View

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Your Browser Can Look Like This

Your Browser Can Look Like This

For the last couple of days, we’ve talked about increasing your elbow room in your workspace.  Once you’ve tackled that project, you might find yourself just motivated enough to handle some other issues in your office (home or work).  Removing clutter and reorganizing can also be applied to another important part of your daily workspace, your browser.  This might not be something you have thought about before, but once you see what is possible, you’ll realize just how crazy your browser was getting.

Remember when you first started on your new computer or new install of a browser?  It was clean, organized and ready for you to destroy.  You began browsing for work and/or personal use and quickly began collecting bookmarks, toolbars, sidebars, etc.  Reading your favorite blogs, participating in social networking, playing your favorite online games and checking your personal email quickly caused a disorganized, overloaded browser.  The more you used it, the less space you were actually left with to view web sites at all.

(more…)