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Bring some Expose to Firefox 1.5 with foXpose
Looks like Firefox 1.5 built in some cool new tools for extension writers, and the folks at Viamatic Softwares have a couple of great examples, the most notable of which is foXpose - Exposé for Firefox tabs. This extension enables a small button in the left side of the status bar which, when clicked, displays thumbnails of all the open tabs in the window. The extension is also supposed to enable the keyboard shortcut ctrl + shift + x to do the same thing, but it seems like that might only work on Windows (can anyone confirm?).[UPDATE: The keyboard shortcut works on OS X, it's just different. Use cmd + shift + X]
This extension allows Firefox to join the ranks of browsers that bring the really hand ideal of Exposé to the tabbed browsing experience, and when I say "ranks" I mean Shiira, as its the only other browser I know that can do this. Like I asked yesterday on the Backpack extension for Firefox: PimpMySafari.com - are you listening?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Kyle said 9:42AM on 12-01-2005
If you're wanting to do the Expose with tabs, make sure you have the 0.2 version available from http://viamatic.com/firefox/
Once installed and FireFox has been restarted, the hotkey(s) for tab-expose is Shift-Command-X.
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Kyle said 9:43AM on 12-01-2005
I forgot to note, I could only access the site properly with FireFox.
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Dennis said 8:37PM on 12-01-2005
This sounds really cool. I will have to check it out. It will be interesting to see what other extensions will start showing up for v1.5
Thanks for the info.
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Mark said 9:53AM on 12-01-2005
This extension royally sucks. i tried it and Tab-sidebar for FF1.5 is about a billion times more useful.
as soon as i can exit my browser, it will be uninstalled for good.
don't waste your time on this... get the tab-sidebar extension!
http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/tabsidebar/index.html
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Thomas said 10:07AM on 12-01-2005
I love it! Very useful and works great. Thanks to Kyle for the keyboard shortcut!
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LD said 10:06AM on 12-01-2005
I can't upgrade to 1.5 yet because so many extentions don't yet work.
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DrWho said 10:22AM on 12-01-2005
foxpose is neat - tried the side bar thing but it takes up too much screen space, uninstalled it.
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Ariston Collander said 11:31AM on 12-01-2005
Works like a charm! Looks like 1.5 runs a bit faster on my 12" iBook. I was unwilling to move to Firefox because of how much faster Safari ran, but it looks like Firefox is improving.
I'm still surprised that Firefox does not have a Right-click -> Print function built in. I haven't found any extensions that will work with 1.5 to bring back that functionality.
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Chris E boy said 12:24PM on 12-01-2005
Just to let you know, IE7 also includes this functionality.
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David Chartier said 1:20PM on 12-01-2005
Chris E boy: yea but... IE 7 doesn't count. ;)
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Ryan J. Bonnell said 4:55PM on 12-01-2005
Yes, this extension works on Windows. I am running Firefox 1.5 (final) on Windows XP SP-2 and the "Expose" tab functionality works the same on Windows as it does on my Mac.
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Bakari said 12:43AM on 12-02-2005
I can't get it to work. Does the download self-install. When I downloaded the plug-in, it ended up on my desktop. I closed Firefox and downloaded it again, and it didn't appear on the desktop. But I don't see button to click for the Expose. Nor does the command work. Help.
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Aditi Kibe said 5:00PM on 12-04-2005
Although I like Firefox 1.5, does anyone how to disable the feature where two-finger scrolling takes you back a page? I followed the instructions on tuaw for Firefox 1.4 and got it to work wonderfully but, for some inexplicable reason, the same changes didn't work in 1.5
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