Tree Style Tab – For Heavy Firefox Users!

Posted by Vivek ||

August 11, 2008 ||

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We all love Firefox or some other browser based on gecko engine and Mozilla platform and we all have different reasons for loving them. My reason is because Firefox I get the power to customize it and convert it into beast of a browser. Firefox extensions are the best friend of a web surfer and a blogger for the very fact that they help increase the efficiency of daily browsing and blogging by multiple folds.

Most of you would have flirted with a good number of extension depending on your needs. If you are a heavy Firefox user you’d love the extension I am going to talk about.

Tree style tab is a wonderful extension that takes tabbed browsing to a new level. If Opera boasts of bringing you the power of tabbed browsing, then Tree style tab extension redefines the way you use tabs. What it does is truly amazing. Following is a brief snapshot of the what it does to your FireFox.

The first thing that you must have noticed is that it brings your tabs to left almost like sidebar. However, it’s not part of your sidebar. It’s your tab bar but on the left. However, you could place it on the right side, on the top (default) or on the bottom. Placing it left and right is your best bet because this extension as the name says gives a tree like structure to your tabs; if I may use a parent and child like structure.

The power it gives you is it creates a child to the current tab (hence making the current tab parent) if you click a link that’s bound to open in a new tab. Let’s see the following screenshot and try to comprehend the child and parent terminology.

In the above screenshot, Google Reader tab is the child for Gmail Tab (which is top in hierarchy). The deadzone and The Next Web tab are the children for Google Reader tab and BuddyPress is the child for The Next Web Tab.

This gives me an idea on from where I landed onto a particular page. Also, you can hide all the children under a parent tab and thus making your Firefox look less cluttered. There are various other options which can help you configure the Tree Style Tab as per your needs and hence make your browsing a much more richer and delightful experience.

Do let you know, if you find this extension useful or if you found it to be a nuisance than to be helpful!

Tags: Compatible Firefox Extensions, FireFox, FireFox Extensions, Firefox Plugins, Tree Tabs for FireFox

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