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Bring some Expose to Firefox 1.5 with foXpose

by David Chartier Dec 1st 2005 at 9:30AM

foXposeLooks 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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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

December 04 2005 at 4:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bakari

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.

December 01 2005 at 4:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ryan J. Bonnell

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.

December 01 2005 at 1:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David Chartier

Chris E boy: yea but... IE 7 doesn't count. ;)

December 01 2005 at 1:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris Parker

Just to let you know, IE7 also includes this functionality.

December 01 2005 at 12:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ariston Collander

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.

December 01 2005 at 11:28 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
gg

foxpose is neat - tried the side bar thing but it takes up too much screen space, uninstalled it.

December 01 2005 at 10:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LD

I can't upgrade to 1.5 yet because so many extentions don't yet work.

December 01 2005 at 10:05 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Thomas

I love it! Very useful and works great. Thanks to Kyle for the keyboard shortcut!

December 01 2005 at 10:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark

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

December 01 2005 at 9:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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