Tab Candy for Google Chrome – TooManyTabs
Shocked? Even we are! From the day we got Tab Candy feature in Firefox 4 beta 4 we were exploring many media sites to check whether the same feature will be implemented in Chrome browser. But we came to know Google is not planning for something like that as of now!
What is Tab Candy?
Tab Candy is a feature added in Firefox to help organize your browsing. With one keystroke Tab Candy shows an overview of all tabs to allow you to quickly locate and switch between them. Tab Candy also lets you group tabs to organize your work flow.
Tech Link: Tab Candy – Firefox’s Next Big Innovation
Mozilla team took sometime in implementing this feature on Firefox 4. Finally on August 24, 2010 we got a much awaited tab candy feature on Firefox 4 beta 4. Something different, something new and it is one of a best innovation by Firefox.
What’s next? Over? Nope! We have been seeing all the latest browser builds Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 4, Opera are getting chromified. Firefox 4 always found resembling Chrome. But this time we got a extension which makes Google Chrome resembling Firefox 😛
TooManyTabs for Chrome
TooManyTabs is a Google Chrome extension which works similar to Tab Candy feature on Firefox. As compared to Tab Candy on Firefox, this extension wont show the opened tabs on new window rather it just pop-up a window displaying all the tabs. The display is similar to Tab candy on Firefox.
Features of TooManyTabs,
1. Long List
This extension pop-up a window which displays all the currently opened tab on long list as show in the image. Right and left arrow keys are provided to access the tabs which crossed the limit of pop-up window size.
2. Sorting
User can sort the list by A-Z alphabetic order, by Web Address or by creation time.
3. Import / Export
As you can create group on Firefox’s Tab Candy you can import and export the tabs list by copying the text provided by extension.
Tech Note: you can avail this feature on other system only by installing same extension.
4. Close any tab
A small arrow will be displayed next to each tab which can be used to pop out that tab from list, indirectly closes the tab in the browser as well.
5. Suspended Tabs
Here the idle tabs will be displayed to reduce the overflow of tabs in the list. Doing this the memory will be released.
6. Recently Closed
As similar to the chrome’s feature of recently closed tabs even this extension will list the links which are recently closed. One advantage is, you can open the closed tab directly. No need to open a new tab on chrome to access the recently closed tabs.
These are some of the great features found on Chrome’s TooManyTabs extension. Hope you will be up to grab this extension. Link provided below,
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