Installation

 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1480

Open Tickets

#353

"Link" tabs immediate right, "New" tabs far right

#380

tab control doesn't switch to the left tab in one case.

#382

Tab Control disables tab bar scrolling

#406

Minimum Tab Width is not saved

#410

Ctrl-F4 closes two tabs at once

Documentation

It's simple. Set the options, and the tabs will act that way instead. The default options are very useful.

Screenshots

The Options pane of Tab Control 0.5.1, in Firefox 3.5.

Changelog

• Version 0.5.3 (Jan 23, 2010)
  • Fix syntax bug with opening tabs in Firefox 3.6. (#397)
  • Add translations: he-IL, fr.
• Version 0.5.2 (Nov 15, 2009)
  • Fix a bug that made the "do not close window with last tab" feature always on, regardless of the setting the user chooses. (#317)
  • Translation updates.
  • Firefox 3.6 compatibility flag.
• Version 0.5.1 (Jul 14, 2009)
  • Retain proper tab order when restoring a previous session, upon Firefox launch. (#294)
  • Expose option to not close window with last tab. (#300)
  • When pressing CTRL-Enter in the search bar, open the search in a new tab. (#301)
• Version 0.5 (Jun 30, 2009)
  • Compatibility with Firefox 3.5.
  • Compatibility with CoLoUnREaDTabs. (#152)
  • Expose an option to open (all) searches in new tabs. (#181)
  • Add a new option (off by default) to open tabs "in groups". When positioning new tabs to the right of the current tab, they will go to the right of the group of tabs opened from this tab. (#189)
  • Add translation: el-GR.
  • Update translation: various.
• Version 0.4.1 (May 18, 2008)
  • Simplify preferences by using the default value file.
  • Remove manual min/max width setting, use the base browser preferences.
  • Remove 'duplicate tab' .. FF 3.0 does this itself.
  • Bump version number, make it compatible with FF 3.0+ only.
• Version 0.4
  • Initial Firefox 3.0 beta compatibility.
• Version 0.3.4 (Apr 12, 2008)
  • Now support Firefox version 2.0 through 3.0.
  • Remove "don't close window with close tab hotkey". The Firefox behavior it fixed no longer exists.
  • Add cs-CZ, ca-AD, gl-ES translations.
  • Update pt-BR translation.
• Version 0.3.3 (Mar 28, 2007)
  • Set all, not just the first, initial load (homepage) tabs to the right size (#52).
  • Add translations: uk-UA, hu-HU.
  • Update translation: zh-CN, nl-NL, it-IT.
• Version 0.3.2 (Feb 19, 2007)
  • Add translations: zh-CN, hr-HR, ko-KR, sk-SK, ro-RO, ja-JP, tr-TR, de-DE, bg-BG
• Version 0.3.1
  • Internal fix for locale translations.
• Version 0.3
  • Add preference to control tab close buttons.
• Version 0.2.3
  • Firefox 2.0 compatibility.
• Version 0.2.2
  • Translation updates.
• Version 0.2.1
  • Translations for 8 langages, thanks to BabelZilla.
• Version 0.2
  • Small bugfixes.

Credits

Certain sections of this code were based on those found in Tab Mix Plus.

License

Tab Control is released under the GPLv2 license.