Comments on: Showcase Firefox Extension Makes Viewing Tabs Easy

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:30:19 +0000

Ya know, I remember looking for that feature when Firefox first came out but I was disappointed to hear that it is impossible for it to do that. It is all dependent on how whether the software makes use of the [en.wikipedia.org] which Opera currently does.

I’m not sure, however, if it is something that the Firefox developers can add or if the way they designed the browser makes it completely impossible in the future.

By: Inferno_str1ke

Inferno_str1ke — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:45:18 +0000

I’m also of the opinions that, whilst cool, these extensions aren’t really needed. I can have alot of tabs open, but I almost always know what they’re there for – though an option to tile them all on one screen could be useful sometimes.

Actually, hold that, what I would really like is the ability to view tabs side by side or one on top of another – just as if they were explorer (or any other) windows. That could be handy.

By: Think Wasabi » Blog Archive » Showcase: el “ExposÃ©” para Firefox

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:15:37 +0000

[...] La tenÃa entre uno de los temas para escribir aquÃ y un post en CyberNet me lo ha recordado. Showcase es una fantÃ¡stica extensiÃ³n para Firefox que permite hacer la funciÃ³n ExposÃ© de Mac con las pÃ¡ginas web que tengamos abiertas en las pestaÃ±as. Para el que no conozca ExposÃ©, la funciÃ³n hace una vista reducida de la pÃ¡gina o ventana y las muestra en pantalla simultÃ¡neamente, con lo que de un vistazo se puede localizar rÃ¡pidamente la que se quiere. Esta caracterÃstica cobra mÃ¡s sentido y utilidad cuando tenemos varias o muchas abiertas al mismo tiempo. [...]

By: Chad-)

Chad-) — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:44:01 +0000

James wrote:

These preview extensions like Showcase are fine to play with for the first minutes but depending on what your doing they can be useless really.

That’s what people here seem to believe too
[forums.mozillazine.org]

By: James

James — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:47:18 +0000

These preview extensions like Showcase are fine to play with for the first minutes but depending on what your doing they can be useless really. I spend a fair time at a couple forums (moderating at one) so it it useless for forums as every preview tab can seem the same.

SeaMonkey 1.1 I think (I forget at moment)(same branch as Fx 2.0) will basically have the “Tab Preview”extension (one of the first of these extensions) you can get for Firefox built in SeaMonkey, thankfully not going to happen on Firefox. [ted.mielczarek.org]