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Horizontal tab scrolling in Firefox 2.0 Web Browsers
One of the new features of Firefox 2.0 is the ability to scroll through your open tabs using arrows on either side of the tab bar. Today I noticed that if you have two-finger scrolling enabled on your MBP, after hitting either of the arrow keys, you can two finger scroll horizontilly to scroll through the open tabs. This only works when there are more open tabs than can be seen in the current window. I don't know how useful this is (I generally don't have 15 tabs open) but hopefully someone will be able to use it.

Note that this scrolling keeps the current tab selected, but you will be able scroll through the open tabs and see the name of the page opened in that tab. I also used this on a MacBook Pro using an Intel-optimized build of Firefox 2.0. I would assume that this would work the same in the standard Firefox 2.0.
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Horizontal tab scrolling in Firefox 2.0
Authored by: Anonymous on Dec 26, '06 11:54:18AM

When you have two or more open tabs, there appears an inverted triangle to the right on top of the scroll bar. When you click on it, a drop down menu lists all open tabs. You can then also scroll through the tabs using the Up and Down arrows on the keyboard.



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Horizontal tab scrolling in Firefox 2.0
Authored by: badcarl on Dec 26, '06 12:24:39PM

You can also use command-option-left and command-option-right to go through the tabs without the mouse, but thats always been there.

Additionally if you hover your cursor over the tab bar, you can use your scroll wheel to scroll though your tabs when you have a lot open, but you still have to click to select it.



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