

Instead of having a scroll button, the tab width shrinks so that they all fit on the bar.

However, you can remove that scroll button from the tab bar with about:config. When you open lots of tabs in Firefox, you’ll find a scroll button on the tab bar to scroll through them with. The drop-down list will now include an alternative number of sites as below. After pressing OK to close that window, enter a URL in address bar. There you can enter an alternative number of sites to include in the drop-down list. Note that its default value is 12.ĭouble-click the setting to open the Enter integer value window. So enter that setting in search box to find it. The about:config setting to adjust for this is. You can adjust the number of sites included in that drop-down list so that it has more or less website pages on it. When you start to enter a URL in Firefox’s address bar, a drop-down list opens that includes up to 12 sites. Now select a tab and enter a keyword in the Firefox search box to search. You can download the Close Tabs to the Left extension from. It simply adds the new right-click menu for the tabs in Firefox so that when you right-click on a tab in Firefox, the new menu will be displayed and you would be able to get rid of all the tabs to the left. This extension “Close Tabs to the Left” does nothing else and even has no settings or preferences to be set. However for those of you who don’t want to be bothered by extra steps, someone has already created a Firefox extension that can add the new options to “close tabs to the left” of the currently active tab. It works very well even though requires an extra step. And to be honest, if you want to close tabs to the left then all you have to do is drag the current tab to the left of all the tabs that you want to close and then choose the “close tabs to the right”. Perhaps the developers thought giving two options is a waste of resources and their time. This is very useful when you have opened dozens of tabs while searching for something and don’t want to spend time closing all of these opened tabs one by one.īut the option to close tabs to the left of the currently active tabs does not exist in Firefox. One of the features that adds to the productivity and the ease of use in the Firefox browser is the option to “close tabs to the right” of the currently active tab. Unlike the proprietary software from Microsoft that is forcefully installed in Windows, Firefox is installed by user choice because of the security and productivity features it provides. Firefox is one of the most liked, most downloaded and most used web browsers in the world.
