Here’s a list of my current installed Firefox extensions. The one you can’t read is Tabbrowser Extensions. See my “Firefox page”:1 for more details on the extensions.

I hope these all work with Firefox 1.5.

[1(Zoingers Firefox Page)]http://www.zoinger.com/words/firefox-customization/

Firefox 1.5 is out. Go get “it”:1. That is all.

[1(Get Firefox)]http://www.getfirefox.com

I got this link to a list of Firefox (and other browser) “keyboard shortcuts”:2 over at the “O’Reilly Radar”:1 blog. My favs are @cntrl + Tab@ for the “next tab,” and @cntrl + shift + Tab@ for the “previous tab.”

[2(Browser keyboard shortcuts)]http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard.html

[1(O'Reilly Radar blog)]http://radar.oreilly.com/

I recently re-installed Firefox on my computer (I had a bunch of extensions installed that I wasn’t using, so wanted to “clean up” the build) and found some cool settings for Firefox’s “_Tabbrowser Extensions_”:1 extension.

If you select the author’s settings when you first install the extension (the settings box comes up after you install the extension and restart the browser), the _TabGroup Mode_ is set to “on.” Here’s a screenshot of the settings if you want to try them out without reinstalling the whole extension:

These settings group tabs together depending on how they are opened, and also color the tabs based on these groups. Here’s an example of how it looks in my browser:

In the screenshot above, the green tabs at the top are all pages I got to starting from Jon Udell’s blog on Infoworld. I originally went to the upper most green tab, Jon’s blog, and opened three links from this page in new tabs. Notice that, in addition to these three tabs all being green, that these three new tabs were spawned directly below the parent “Jon’s blog tab” and not at the bottom of the tab list.

Oh, I used a hack in Firefox’s @userchrome.css@ file to change the color of the active tab’s background to yellow — that’s why the first tab in the list, Yahoo!, is yellow. It’s handy for keeping track of which tab you are on when you have a bunch of tabs open. Here’s the @userchrome.css@ code I use:

 /* Change Active Tab Color */
tab {background-color: white !important; color:black !important}
tab[selected="false"] {color: black; background-color: white !important;}
tab[selected="true"] {color: blue; background-color: yellow !important;}

Using colors in tabs rocks.

[1(Home page for Tabbrowser Extensions)]http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/tabextensions/index.html.en

Linked to over in the sidebar, the Zoinger “_Firefox Customization_”:1 page has finally been updated from alpha to beta state. I still have a lot of stuff that I want to clean up on the page. In addition, I want to document some of the UI tweaks that I’ve done for Firefox in more detail and post some additional screen shots.

However, for now, here’s a screen shot of my final build of Firefox after I finished installing all extensions, changing the theme to “Rein”:2, hacking the @UserChrome.css@ file and tweaking the UI.

[3(Click for larger image)]/img/Firefox_UI_Final.png

[2(Zoinger post on the purely awesome Rein theme)]http://www.zoinger.com/archives/2005/02/16/08.18.39/index.html

[1(Zoinger Firefox Customization page)]http://www.zoinger.com/words/firefox-customization/