Are you a Firefox user, finding it difficult to manage open tabs or accidently closed a tab, then Tabberwocky is definitely an useful add-on. Tabberwocky is a Firefox add-on for tab management which is a light, fast tab browsing extension with features, including duplicate, protect, and lock tab, open selected links, multi row tab bar, tab progress bars, new & close tab buttons, tab clicking, tab opening & closing, menu items, and many more features.

right click on any tab and it provides you with the option of locking and protecting tab which prevents from accidental close. You can also reload a tab or all the tabs. In case you accidentally close a tab, then you can undo the action. When opening any link, you can prefer to open in background or foreground tab.

Tabberwocky options allows you to customize and change all the settings of the add-on.

Tabberwocky is a very useful add-on for all Firefox users. Features and options include;

• Duplicate Tab, Protect Tab, Lock Tab (menu items and keyboard shortcuts)
• Tab Progress Bars
• Multiple-Row Tab Bar
• Open in new tabs from Bookmarks, History, URL Bar, and/or Search Bar
• Open Selected Links in New Tabs
• Retain tab history when opening links in new tabs
• Show/Hide New Tab button and Close Tab buttons
• Highlight unread tabs
• Set minimum/maximum tab width
• Close tabs by double-clicking on them
• Tab clicking options
• Open tabs to the right of current tab
• Open tabs from links to the right of current tabs (Firefox 3.6+)
• Switch to last selected tab or tab on the left when closing a tab
• Menu items for opening links in foreground/background tabs
• Open script-generated windows in tabs instead

Download Taberwocky

Previously we have covered many Gmail notifiers, including the ones for Windows 7, but [b2] Gmail notifier is quite unique in its way of showing new mails. [b2] Gmail notifier is a free Adobe AIR based Gmail notifier for Windows, Linux and Mac that alerts you of new emails through cool animations. There are quite a few animations available, so that you can change them whenever you need. Once installed, you just need to enter the Gmail username and password and it shows notifications sitting in the system tray.

Shown above are some of the animations available. You can also download 2 more animations from the website apart from the 4 already available with the application. The animations can be configured using the options menu. Each of the animations have sounds added to it. You can watch this cool video on how it works before installing it.

You can download more animations here. This tool also works with Google Apps account. Do not forget to install Adobe Air in your PC before installing this tool.

Download [b2] Gmail Notifier [Thanks to Instant Fundas for this tool]

If you are a Firefox user and if you leave computer idle for downloading large files from Internet, then Auto Shutdown add-on for Firefox might be able to save energy for you. Auto Shutdown is a Firefox extension developed by InBasic which monitors your active downloads and shuts down your computer when they are completed. More than this, it also helps you to execute any script (user scripts) after the specified time duration.

Auto Shutdown provides you with lots of options to configure the shutdown and also integrates with DownThemAll add-on which is a better download manager for Firefox.

Features:

• Executing user scripts after all downloads are finished or computer is idle for specific time
• Play sound after each/All downloads are finished
• Restore Firefox from last session
• Customizable shutdown/idle scripts
• Supporting DownThemAll

The add-on has a quick access button on the Firefox status bar at the bottom and you can activate the add-on using the right click menu.

Download Auto Shutdown for Firefox

YouTube is definitely an awesome site for all kinds of videos. Every time you finish watching a video in YouTube, you need to manually replay it in order to have a look at it again. Auto Replay is a Firefox add-on which allows users to automatically replay YouTube videos without having to manually replay the videos once it is completed. This add-on adds an auto replay checkbox in YouTube video page along with options to choose the portion of the video to be replayed.

Once you have installed the add-on, when you open any video in Firefox, you can Auto Replay option on the right hand corner of the video. Here you can also select the time frame of the video you want to replay.

The add-on works very well with videos and there is no delay in starting the videos once it is completed.

Download Auto Replay Add-on for Firefox

We have already seen the mock up theme for the upcoming version of Mozilla Firefox 4. This mock up theme for Firefox 4 can be enabled on Firefox 3 with an add-on. The Strata40 theme is designed to mimic the look and functionality of the Firefox 4 mock ups floating around the net. This theme for Firefox works with version 3.5 and above. Although the Strata40 theme gives the mock up effect, a combination of other add-ons and user scripts will give the complete look and feel of Firefox 4 mock up theme.

There are other recommended add-ons for complete effects like aero glass, tabs on top of the navigation bar.

Here is a list of add-ons required to get the full Firefox 4 experience:

• StrataGlass :: Needed for aero glass effects- Download
• Personal Menu :: Needed for tools and bookmarks toolbar buttons- Download
• Omnibar :: Not essential but great for using the address bar for searching instead of the search bar- Download
• Fission :: Needed for “progress line” feature. Shows the page’s loading progress as a small line below the address bar- Download
• Tabs on Top :: The mock ups also include a tabs on top version. If you would like a tabs on top version install an add-on called Stylish- Download
• Then install this user style : Download

Once these add-ons and styles are installed, you get the Firefox 4 mock up theme on Firefox 3.

Thanks to CyberNetNews for this tip.

Coral IE Tab is a Firefox extension which enables you to use the embedded IE engine within tabs of Mozilla Firefox. This add-on can be very useful for developers who want to check the rendering of pages in IE. This add-on enables you to easily switch to IE in tab view when you meet incorrectly rendered web pages in Firefox. This add-on is very similar IE Tab and also many parts are directly taken from IE Tab.

The most significant features of this add-on are the support for Ad block Plus (and other Adblock-like extension), supporting cookies (so you don’t need to re-login when you switch between Firefox and IE), etc.

Coral IE Tab is a very useful add-on for web developers.

Download Coral IE Tab

KwiClick is a Firefox add-on which helps you to get the better out of search and social media in Firefox. When you want to search something using Firefox, you open a new tab and search using the search box in Firefox. But with KwiClick, you can directly type in the search box and results from various favorite search engines are displayed in a separate pop up box without having to open new tab or opening in existing tab. KwiClick integrates social media into Firefox, so that you can share videos on Twitter and Facebook with easy clicks.

You can search in all your favorite sites with just a single click without opening any of these websites. These favorites can be customized using the options window.

Sharing videos on Facebook or Twitter or by email is now very much easier, whenever you play any video (from supported sites), a tool is automatically added to above the videos enabling you to share it.

You can even watch the video in separate pop out box so that you can view it even if you navigate away from the main tab. It detects embedded videos and images on any webpage, and provides tools for in depth information extraction.

KwiClick provides immediate results from popular websites including Google, YouTube, FriendFeed, Twitter, Google Maps, Flickr, Wikipedia, Amazon, Technorati, Veoh, Howcast, Live Video, Viddler, Yahoo, del.icio.us, and more.

When you want to search any term from a website content, select the term, right click and you can search using KwiClick. Check this video for more details and features of KwiClick.

KwiClick is a very useful and must have add-on for all social media users (Twitter and Facebook) to share content easily.

Download KwiClick

Firefox is a pretty good browser with support for themes and thousands of add-ons for customizations. But with passage of time, Firefox starts slows down and takes more time to start and overall navigation becomes slow. SpeedyFox is a free and small utility that fixes the problem of Firefox slowing down. After you optimize your Firefox with this tool, you will get a fresh newly-installed feel because the speed indeed gets considerably faster. Speeyfox attributes this problem to fragmentation of database.

Once installed, it will automatically detect your Firefox’s default profile. If you have more than one profile, you can select the one you want to optimize from the drop-down menu. All you have to do is select the default profile that you want to optimize. Make sure that you have closed Firefox before using this tool.

The optimization process can take time based on your data available with Firefox. The whole optimization process is safe as it does not effect your history, bookmarks, passwords, etc.

Download SpeedyFox

Firefox 3.5 comes with lots of new features and improvements and one such feature is private browsing. Many times if your friend or family member shares your computer, you would prefer for them not to be able to see what websites you’ve visited or what files you’ve downloaded. Firefox 3.5 “Private Browsing,” which allows you to browse the Internet without Firefox retaining any of data about which sites and pages you have visited.

In a Private Browsing session, Firefox won’t keep any browser history, search history, download history, web form history, cookies, or temporary internet files.  However, files you download and bookmarks you make will be kept.

1. To enable Private Browsing in Firefox 3.5, click on the tools menu and select “Start Private Browsing” or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL +SHIFT+ P. You will be prompted with a warning message on whether you want to start private mode.

2. Once you have started Private browsing mode, it opens a new session of Firefox and your existing session will be automatically saved. You can see the private browsing mode enabled when you open any tab.

3. When you want to stop private browsing, click tools and select “Stop Private Browsing” or use the same keyboard shortcut CTRL +SHIFT+ P.

Once you have stopped private browsing, Firefox will restore your previous session of browsing.

Firefox version 3.5 is the latest version of browser from Mozilla and has a bunch of new features and is also the fastest Firefox browser. When downloading files from Internet using Firefox 3.5 one of the annoying thing is the automatic virus scan by Firefox after downloading files. This is not needed if you know the files are being downloaded from a secure location. This could also be annoying if there are large number of files being downloaded and it takes time to complete the scan. The automatic virus scan is enabled by default, but you can disable this feature if you do not want Firefox to scan files.

1. Open a new tab in Firefox and type about:config. You will be prompted with a message that changing the settings could be harmful and click the button “I’ll be Careful, I promise”

2. Next type “browser.download.manager.scanWhendone” in the filter, you can also search by the word scan. The scan is enabled by default as you can see it set to true.

3. Double click on the entry and it will be changed to false. Now on Firefox will not scan any files downloaded.

Make sure that you scan the files with a AV scanner if you are not sure of the files downloaded.