Aging is just a part of life and there is no way around it. Instead of having to age by your lonesome self you can setup your Firefox tabs to age, too! There is a new extension available called Aging Tabs and it does just that.
Just install the extension and your tabs will start aging away. There are several different options, as you can see above, that let you customize how the tabs look. In the screenshot you can also see the aged tab that I created by switching back and forth several times between the two right tabs, thus leaving that one neglected and left to grow old. However, the tab can regain its youth if you start selecting it again.
At first I kinda thought this was a “fun for awhile” extension where it would get old (no pun intended) quickly. I have been using it all morning and it surprisingly helps to filter out tabs that I shouldn’t have open anymore. If you constantly just have one or two tabs open then you probably won’t see the benefit in this, but I am constantly reading news and I’ll have around 25 tabs at the same time.
You’ll also notice the default blue color on the currently selected tab. It makes the current tab stick out so much more that I now think Mozilla should have done a similar color for the currently selected tab.
I would probably place this extension in my top 5 favorites.
That is really really useful, especially since I always have 30 tabs open all of the time. Thanks for finding this.
Someone had mentioned this extension over at the [addons.mozilla.org] which now works fine with 2.0) extension page. Frankly, I wasn’t impressed.
Ridiculoso! FF2 goes easier on the RAM so extension developers are finding ingenious ways to offset that!
I have not noticed any additional memory usage by using this extension. I’m sure there is a little bit of a hit but it doesn’t appear to present any memory leaks.
Looks, kinda cool, but I’m trying to be conservative in regard to system recources.
Also, it’s terribly annoying when I’m reading your tech news in the Y! Mail Beta RSS feed reader and there is a good picture of the feature you’re explaining. If it’s possible, I would greatly enjoy it if feed pictures were embedded into the RSS feed
Why on earth did Mozilla have ugly grey as the active tab colour? And dark grey for non-active? They didn’t do themselves any favors with FF 2.0.
Ryan: would you mind telling me the name of the windows style you used in the above screenshot? I’ve been looking for this whole-button-in-window-border vista-style quite some time now – whithout luck
thanks in advance
We have thought about including the images in the feed but there are several sites that retrieve our feed to display on their own site and make it look like their own content. This way we are at least saving the bandwidth that these people would be using of ours.
I never really noticed that the active tab wasn’t very noticeable until I had seen the blue one. It is very hard to go back now.
Well, actually it is Windows Vista.