Browser View Plus is a firefox extension to open web pages in multiple browsers of your choice with a single click.

Installation:

Install Browser View Plus for your firefox. Restart the browser and let’s start with the ‘options’ button (tools > add-ons > Browser View Plus > Options). There are three tabs to play with.

In the ‘Menu Settings’ tab, you can custom add your other list of browsers and uncheck the ‘hide’ option.

If you go to ‘Browser Locations’ tab, by default IE, Chrome, Safari, and Opera links are added.

Browse to add your new custom browser links to the ‘other browser’ list. You can add upto four other browsers. The below screen shot is displaying Lunascape and Wyzo being added.

The third tab will help you set an additional option to view the desired browser upon left and right click.

Now go to Customize Toolbar (View > Toolbar > Customize), and you will find the browser icons added with a BVP prefix.

Drag and drop these buttons in your firefox menubar and you are all set to open up your firefox links in any of these list of browsers as and when you need.

Features:

·         Opens up multiple browsers

·         Upto 4 external browsers may be listed apart from the default list

·         Available on right-click menu option or with the BVP buttons

Browser View Plus works well for those of you who like to frequently test how a website would display in another web browser. Another firefox extension that can be used for the same functionality is ‘Open With’.

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App Tab is a Firefox add-on which creates Fav-Icon sized tabs in Firefox browser.

Below is a screen shot of my Firefox browser with 6 tabs open. As you can see my tab bar is fully taken up now.

App Tab is a Firefox extension that creates Fav-Icon sized tabs pinned to the tab bar. Install the add-on and restart your browser. Then right click on any open tab in your Firefox browser and you will find this App Tab option as in the picture shown below.

Select App Tab from the option and your tab will be sized to the Fav-Icon and pinned to the left side of the tab bar.

Now after creating the app tabs, my browser would look like the one below. You can notice the difference.

If you want to turn them back to its original size, right click again on those tabs and un-check the App Tab option.

Even if you save and close your window, the App Tabs will be re-opened the next time when you start your browser.

Even simpler

If you again want to make it simple, go to App Tab options from the add-on installation and you will find a drop down menu ‘Tab clicking shortcut to create app tabs’. The simplest option is to go with ‘Double-click tab’.

Then every time when you want to create Fav-Icon sized tabs, just double-click on the tab and you are done. Again double-click to turn your tabs back to its original size.

Conclusion:

Fav-Icon sized app tabs feature is planned for Firefox 4.0 which is currently in beta version. If you like that feature, then you should definitely try out App Tab extension to get the feature in your current Firefox version itself.

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