Firefox users love their tabbed browsing capability, but if you leave tabs unchecked they can get completely out of control. For those of you who feel lost in a sea of tabs, there are numerous ways to manage them; Here are over 40 of the best extensions.

While we think all of the options we've provided are great, we suggest that you install just a few; Installing too many add-ons will slow down your browser.

Have a favorite Firefox add-on to recommend? Tell us about it in the comments.

Tab Display & Placement







Chromin Frame - If you prefer the way Google Chrome places tabs at the top of the window, this add-on will aid you in recreating that same placement. Depending on the number of toolbars you run, it can get pretty crowded in the tab area, so moving tabs above the jumble may work out the best for some people.

ColorfulTabs - All those gray tabs can get confusing, and ColorfulTabs can help add some order to the mix. Tabs gets assigned different colors as you open them, making them easier to distinguish. ColorfulTabs could be especially helpful to anyone that needs to have a lot of tabs open at any given time.

ColoUnREaDTabs - When you have lots of tabs open, it's easy to forget which ones you've read, and which ones you still need to. This add-on changes the text in unread tabs to red-bold-italic so that you can easily spot which tabs you still need to read.

FlagTab - Use a menu to choose which colors to assign to a tab, mark tabs as unread, create relative tabs and more.

Tree Style Tab - Feel more comfortable with a tree hierarchical system for your tabs? Tree Style Tab does just this by placing the tabs in a sidebar, and attaching new tabs to each tree as you follow links from page to page. This is a great add-on for designers who need to see how a site they wish to duplicate is structured, or for those checking out a site they've designed to see how it flows.

VertTabbar - VertTabbar places your tabs in a vertical menu located on either the right or left hand side of your browser. The preferences allow you to determine the width, position of the closure button, alignment of the text and more. This is a great way to de-clutter the top of your browser screen.

Tab Management







Close Tab by Double Click - The name of this add-on pretty much says it all as it will allow you to quickly double click on a tab to close it.

Double-Click to Reload Tabs - This add-on will allow you to double-click on a tab to reload it, and if you do a shift + double-click, it will reload while bypassing the cache.

Duplicate Tab - Bloggers will probably love this extension that allows you to duplicate a tab, which is perfect when you need to search your older posts so you can backlink yourself. You also can merge multiple windows, break out a tab into a new window and more.

Easy DragToGo - This will give you gesture control over numerous Firefox features, but it also allows you to open links in new tabs that are placed either in the foreground or background, search the text of current tabs, and more handy tools. Great for power surfers who don't like clicking a lot of buttons to accomplish simple tasks.

Multiple Tab Handler - Multiple Tab Handler allows you to close multiple tabs at once, reload several at a time, move them around in bulk, close tabs to the left or right and more.

NewTabURL - NewTabURL gives you more options when you open a new tab, such as opening as a blank page, always opening your home page, opening a user-defined URL or the page you are currently on. This is a great tool for web designers who need to go to the same pages repeatedly, or need multiple copies of a site open at any given time.







Next Tab - Firefox currently opens new tabs all the way in the last location on your tab bar, but with Next Tab you will be able to open a new tab directly next to the one you are currently using.

Open link in... - This add-on gives you more options via the context menu of when and how a new tab should open up. You can launch tabs in the foreground, a background tab, in a background window and more.

OpenInWindow - Say you have a lot of tabs open already and you plan on opening up another webpage. Do you have a tab open you don't need anymore? With OpenInWindow you can tell Firefox to use that already existing tab from the right-click context menu, and save yourself opening up yet another new tab.

Tab Buttons - You can add either a new tab button or an undo closed tab button on either side of your tabs, or just enable one of them if you choose. People who find they close tabs by accident may find this the solution to their problems.

Tab Clicking Options - Tab Clicking Options gives your mouse a lot more power when interacting with your tabs by giving different abilities to different kinds of mouse clicks. You can use it to close tabs, bookmark them, reload, duplicate and more. This is something that could quite possibly be useful to just about every Web surfer out there.

Tab Control - Tab Control gives you more flexibility with how your tabs display, such as a tab's minimum and maximum width, which position they should open in, forcing JavaScript popups to open in a new tab and so on.







Tab Kit - While Firefox lets you have as many tabs as you would like open at any given time, if you exceed the width of the screen you then have to scroll left and right to see them. Tab Kit allows you to have multiple rows of tabs as well as give them colors so they are easy to distinguish. You can also put them into groups, move them to the sidebar, duplicate tabs and a host of other controls, making this a great solution for your all-in-one tab manager.

Tabs Menu - This add-on gives you a new listing in the toolbar that will show you the titles of all your tabs in a vertical descending menu. Great if you have a lot of tabs open as the names get smaller with each new tab.

Tab Mix Plus - Tab Mix Plus provides a lot of useful features to help you manage tabs in Firefox. For example, as each tab loads, you see a progress bar contained inside of the tab header so you can view its progress. The biggest feature has to be the right-click menu that gives you numerous options for managing your tabs such as opening, closing, reloading, duplicating and more. This is the perfect add-on for intensive research.

Tab Saver! - While you can save tabs when you close Firefox, Tab Saver! allows you to save whenever you want, even allowing forced saves whenever you choose with a keyboard shortcut.

Tab To Window - A simple add-on that will allow you to either duplicate a tab to a new window, or just entirely move the tab to a new window on its own.

TabCloser - If you have several tabs opened to different pages on the same Web site, this will allow you to close all tabs related to that one domain name with just an easy click.

TooManyTabs - For those who open tons of tabs, this add-on allows you to store tabs you don't currently need in extra rows where they will remain idle and won't consume system resources. You can restore tabs to the active area at any time, restore up to 20 recently closed tabs, mark tabs in different colors and more.

Tab Navigation







Auto Toggle Tabs - This add-on adds a new selection to your "Tools" menu that allows you to set a time interval that your tabs will automatically change for you. Great idea for a makeshift screensaver.

Fancy Numbered Tabs - Fancy Numbered Tabs will remove the "x" from each tab for closing and replace it with a number. With these numbers in place you can use ctrl + a number or alt + a number to change to the tab of your choice. If you exceed the amount of numbers issued, no matter how many you have, ctrl + 9 will take you to the last tab.

LastTab - Ctrl-Tab navigation is altered with this add-on that allows you to get to the most recently opened tabs first, and also adds a drop down menu for mouse navigation through your tabs. Great for those who need to change tabs rapidly on a regular basis.

NumExt - Numbered Tabs - Numbered Tabs is an easy way to navigate through numerous tabs you may have open. Num-Ext will number your tabs and you can then use ctrl + 1 - 9 to navigate through the first nine tabs, and alt + 1 - 9 for 10 through 17.

TabNavIt - TabNavIt allows you to hold down your right mouse button and then use the scroll wheel on your mouse to navigate through the various tabs you have open. Unlike other scrolling add-ons, this one can be used from anywhere in the browser window since it requires the right-click to work.

Tab Wheel Scroll - This add-on has one simple duty, and that is to place your mouse in the tab bar and then use your scroll wheel to move back and forth amongst the tabs to select the one you want to switch to. Wonderful extension for those that have numerous tabs open at any given time.

Tab Visualization







Firefox Showcase - The Firefox Showcase add-on gives you the ability to manage your tabs as thumbnails in a window, tab or sidebar. Each thumbnailed tab also receives a label, the ability to drag-and-drop rearrangement, and more. A great idea for students doing research that need to use multiple sources.

FishEyeTabs - This particular tool will magnify a tab for easier reading when you have too many tabs open and the labels have gotten too small for you to read.

FoxTab - FoxTab provides you with five graphical interfaces for displaying your tabs so that you can browse through them without just having to stare at the names along the top and hope you remember what the site is about. This extension could be especially useful to web designers as you can easily have multiple screenshots displayed at once depending on the configuration you choose.

Tab Catalog - Using different commands such as F8 or clicking both mouse buttons at once, you can launch a thumbnail gallery of all your current tabs with Tab Catalog. Once the thumbnails are open, you can close any of them or multiple tabs at once.

Tab Popup - Tab Popup allows you to simply roll your mouse over a tab to see a preview of what it contains. Since the previews are larger than a standard thumbnail, Tab Popup is great for people who need to have lots of tabs open for research.

Tab Preview - This popup preview lets you set options such as how long after mouseover it should display the preview, the size of the thumbnail and where it should be displayed.

Tab Sidebar - As the name suggests, Tab Sidebar moves your tabs to the sidebar, hiding the original tabs menu. The most noticeable difference with this new placement is that you get a thumbnail preview of each tab in the sidebar for easier browsing. Other features include updating thumbnails, navigation for each tab, drag-and-drop movement of the tabs and more.

Tab Slideshow - Tab Slideshow will begin scrolling through all of your open tabs after an amount of time that you set. While this might not be the most useful add-on, it could be a fun screensaver while you're on a phone call.

Miscellaneous Tools







Basics - The name says it all with this add-on that only has one basic feature, moving the "New Tab" button from the right side of the tab bar to the left. This makes sense since we English speakers are used to moving across screen from left to right.

Morning Coffee - While there are other extensions that let you save tabs to open each time you start Firefox, Morning Coffee allows you to setup which tabs open automatically according to which day of the week it is. The example they give is the web comic Penny Arcade that updates Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so there's no need to open that site on Tuesday and Thursday, and that's no problem for this handy application. This is absolutely perfect for the Internet addicted amongst us, which is pretty much all of us.

Page Title Eraser - With Page Title Eraser, you are able to completely erase the title of the tab from your window so it just appears untitled in your browser. You can also use it to rename a title if you choose to do so, making it impossible for anyone to look over your shoulder and get an idea of what you're looking at.

Send Tab URLs - This extension will allow you to copy the URLs of all your currently open tabs to the clipboard or directly to an email program. If you plan to send the list to email, it can only be 30 addresses long, but the clipboard allows for unlimited addresses. This is the perfect tool for people who need to cite the resources they use for projects.

Tab History - Whenever you open a new tab, it opens up with no history, but with Tab History all of your new tabs retain the browsing history of their "parent" tab. This is especially handy if you are splintering off tabs from the same site over and over to explore different parts of the site.

Tab URL Copier - This add-on provides you with a new choice in your right-click context menu that allows you to copy the URLs of all your open tabs to the clipboard so that you can email them or simply keep track of them for any research you may be doing.

TabRenamizer- Ever had sites open in a tab that you would rather not have your boss or family know you are looking at? Even if you have another tab in the foreground, the name of the site still appears on the other tab, but with TabRenamizer you rename a tab to anything of your choosing. Great tool for anyone that needs to conceal a site they may not want others to know they are browsing.

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