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Written by Administrator2
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 16:30 |
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Too many tabs? Here is a neat little trick/hack I discovered that
will let you open a Firefox window nested within a tab in an existing
Firefox window.
The Trick
The trick is simple, simply enter this in your address bar
chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

For added convenience, you can bookmark this link and place it in your
bookmark toolbar for quick access. This works because the Mozilla Gecko
engine renders the entire UI (not just the webpage) in the same way.
So the UI is really just another thing for Firefox to render.
Advantages
- This can really help you organize your tabs by grouping related tabs together in a single tab.
- You can hide an entire browser session a few levels deep and if
your boss walks by, simply switch to another tab at the top level.
Your tabs will be hidden and the only thing that will be displayed in
the parent tab are the words “Mozilla Firefox” (most of the time).
- Prank/confuse co-workers
Disadvantages
- Having recursive Firefox windows open will reduce screen estate — especially if you have many toolbar add-ons.
- Some shortcuts won’t work as expected. For example, double
clicking on the tab bar to open a new tab in a sub-window will open new
tabs in the root (highest parent) window as well.
- There are a few other quirks. The address bar doesn’t update when
you switch sub-tabs. And the title in the tab gets updated weirdly.
- Restoring a closed tab containing sub windows will (most often) not restore the tabs previously open.
This should work on older versions of Firefox but I only tested it on Let me know if it works in Firefox 1.x or 2.x
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Last Updated on Friday, 25 July 2008 02:49 |