Add-ons
Marc P.
About me
| Name | Marc P. |
|---|---|
| User since | March 5, 2007 |
| Number of add-ons developed | 0 add-ons |
| Average rating of developer's add-ons | Not yet rated |
My Reviews
Duplicate Tab
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This lightweight extension allows one to open a duplicate tab (aka Internet Explorer style behavior) by either hitting Ctl-Shift-U or by selecting "Duplicate tab" on the pull-down menu of the current tab. When doing either of these it creates a new tab that is the duplicate of the current tab, complete with the history of the current tab. This is a much needed feature in FF, and I am glad to have found this extension. Why is it better than the IE implementation, you may ask? The reason is that although I often want to create a duplicate tab, most of the new tabs that I want to create I want to be blank tabs that start up fast. Whereas IE is setup to always create duplicate tabs or always create blank tabs, this FF extension allows the default Ctl-T to quickly create a blank tab, but allows Ctl-Shift-U to create a duplicate one. Many kudos to the authors of this. Also, I should note that it does *NOT* interfere with my other favorite tab extensions (Last Tab, Session Manager, Colorful Tabs, Taboo).
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.9.1).Session Manager
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
So many times I had accidentally closed not just a tab, but a whole window of tabs, by mistake. Session Manager to the rescue, a quick undo or restore of one tab or a whole window of tabs is easily done. Additionally, the ability to save an entire session (all windows and tabs) is a nice tool that I sometimes use in cases such as the following: I have a bunch of FF windows/tabs open, but for memory/speed purposes I want to close them while I work on some other CPU/memory intensive stuff for a few hours while still leaving FF open for minimal browsing services --- now I can do this by saving everything as a named session and closing all the windows, and then later restore the named session.
This works great, and doesn't conflict with my other tab extensions (Taboo, ColorfulTabs, LastTab).
WISHLIST: As someone who uses two computers at home, plus a laptop while traveling, it would be nice if there were an option for "remote" storage of a session. There is a Firefox add-on called Linkwad which does this, and it would be really nice if Session Manager could build Linkwad style functionality into it (I would rather have a single extensions, Session Manager, that handles all of my session storage -- both local and remote -- rather than having to deal with two different session managers, which complicates things a bit).
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