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Turn on visual tab previews in Firefox 3.6

Firefox 3.6 has a great new feature that shows visual previews of tabs when you are switching between tabs using Ctrl + Tab. Firefox 3.6 ships with this feature off, so here's what to do if you want to turn it on.

1 - type about:config in the address bar.

2 - find the preference named browser.ctrlTab.preview and double click it so that the value changes from False to True.

3 - restart firefox.

Once you do this, when you hit Ctrl + Tab you'll get a preview of what's in each of the tabs.

So far as I know, this only works on the Windows version of Firefox 3.6 at this point. Hopefully that'll change before the official release.
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Categories: Firefox browsers tabs customization
Added: on Nov 05, 2009 at 7:10 am
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