Questions tagged [browser-tabs]
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Determine which tab in Firefox is using CPU resources?
Is there anything in the current Firefox similar to the Task Manager in Google Chrome? (Shift + Esc)
There is something that occasionally takes up enough CPU to make Firefox unresponsive - but with multiple windows, each with a dozen or so tabs…
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Is there a method to export the URLs of the open tabs of a Firefox window?
If I have a Firefox window open that contains 10 tabs, is there a way in Firefox or by a plug-in to get the URLs of those 10 tabs as a text file or some other format?
Right now if I want to do this I need to copy the URL of tab A, paste it…
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How to Make Chrome Not Load Tabs Until They are Selected?
I have over 20 tabs opened in Chrome and need to restart browser from time to time. This browser does not have option similar to Firefox's "Do not load tabs until selected" loading tabs only after selecting them. I have tried a few Chrome extensions…
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How to get tab count in Chrome desktop without app/extension?
How can I view the number of open tabs in Chrome (desktop) without installing an app or extension?
On Chrome for iOS it's easy, just look in the top right for the number:
I have seen this question posted before, but asking for app/extension…
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Is there a way to copy URLs from all open tabs in a Google Chrome (or other browser) window into an email?
Are there any Google Chrome extensions that would allow you to copy the URLs of all open tabs into the clipboard, or even better, to send them to a new Gmail message?
My personal scenario is house hunting, opening many prospective places in…
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How can I transfer all of my open tabs in Chrome in Android to Chrome on a desktop?
I know that I can go to history section in desktop and there I can locate the history of android tabs separately and then can open the tabs one by one.
But I want to transfer all of my current Android session to desktop at once without going through…
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Firefox - always show the tabs in fullscreen mode
Full screen can be more fun if I can always see my tabs (by default you can see when you hover your mouse around that area) and my taskbar.
I know how to make taskbar always appear. Any idea how to do this for the "tab-bar"?
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Disable ability to pull a tab off of Chrome
I'm so sick of mistakenly pulling my Chrome tabs out of the tab list when i click on it, and having it open in a new window. I'm always pulling them off, then having to drop them back.
Does anyone know of a way to disable this 'feature' of…
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Changing Firefox Tab Cycle Order
When you use Ctrl-Tab in Firefox, you move through tabs in the order that they are listed in the tab bar at the top of the window. I would prefer that when I use Ctrl-Tab the next tab that I switch to is the most recently used tab. That way if I…
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How can I unload a tab manually?
Firefox has a setting "Don't load tabs until selected" (see How do I make Firefox 13 Load All My Tabs on Startup or when Resuming Reload). I like that behaviour.
I am searching for a way to "deload"/deactivate a tab manually for a session (until I…
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How to disable the close (X) button on Google Chrome tabs?
Is there any way to make Chrome not display an X button for each tab?
I have two reasons for this:
When I have many tabs open, the X buttons take a lot of screen real estate and make the tab titles shorter.
Sometimes I try to move to a different…
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Keyboard shortcut to open new tab next to current tab in Google Chrome
Is there a keyboard shortcut (or is there a way to create one without any extensions or third-party stuff) that opens a new tab next to the currently open tab?
For example, let's say I have 10 tabs in Chrome and I have tab 3 open. Is there a…
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How can I make a tab in Firefox falsely believe that it still has the focus?
In Firefox I would like to pass to another tab while an ad is playing
in the current tab, but the pesky thing will pause when its tab loses the focus.
I would like to trick the ad to believe that it still has the focus,
for it to keep on playing so…
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How to find out which Firefox tab is using most CPU or memory?
There are times when the Firefox responds reluctantly. And it is not only when I have opened many tabs. But there are cases when I have opened as many as 20 tabs and Firefox is working fine and there are cases when I have opened just 5-6 tabs and…
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Why does CTRL-click not open some links in a new tab?
Sometimes while browsing, I'll ctrl-click a link to open it in a new tab. However, instead of opening in a new tab, it gets clicked and browsed to in the current tab as if I had clicked it normally without holding ctrl. I'm positive I'm holding ctrl…
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