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#1 2008-08-13 06:15:40

peets
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How can I display numbers on Firefox tabs?

I'm using Vimperator and I'd find it very useful to have the tab's number displayed on every tab in my tab bar. tab tab. tab. I'm pretty sure there was an easy way to do this, but Google isn't friendly to me tonight. Do you know how to do this?

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#2 2008-08-13 14:21:34

Zoranthus
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Re: How can I display numbers on Firefox tabs?

No idea, but with vimperator if you type :b followed by the <space> and then the <tab> key you get an enumeration at the bottom.

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#3 2008-08-13 14:25:29

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Re: How can I display numbers on Firefox tabs?

I've never used this before, so I can't give an opinion on it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5861

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#4 2008-08-13 15:14:21

N30N
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Re: How can I display numbers on Firefox tabs?

You should be able to to number your tabs by adding the following to your userChrome.css

/* Number tabs */
tab {
    counter-increment: tab-number;
}
.tab-text:before {
    content: counter(tab-number) ": ";
}

Unfortunately it doesn't work. hmm

The next thing to try would be doing it via JavaScript in your .vimperatorrc.

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#5 2008-08-13 17:23:22

Ramses de Norre
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Re: How can I display numbers on Firefox tabs?

skottish wrote:

I've never used this before, so I can't give an opinion on it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5861

Nice plugin! To bad it's not working properly with FF3.. Maybe it gets fixed in a while smile

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#6 2008-08-13 18:05:04

skottish
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Re: How can I display numbers on Firefox tabs?

Ramses de Norre wrote:
skottish wrote:

I've never used this before, so I can't give an opinion on it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5861

Nice plugin! To bad it's not working properly with FF3.. Maybe it gets fixed in a while smile

I see what you mean. It's functional, but clearly it's not quite right.

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#7 2008-08-14 03:54:44

vogt
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Re: How can I display numbers on Firefox tabs?

In addition to the :buffer command and alt-[1-9], with which I tend to be off by one when I have more than 6 tabs, I also use C-n C-p to switch between them, since 9 tabs is just too few smile.

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#8 2008-08-14 11:54:56

peets
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Re: How can I display numbers on Firefox tabs?

ya I love the :buffer command! It tab-completes tab titles! Sometimes, though, when I have 50 tabs open, cycling through them is too long. If I see the tab on the tab bar, but it's pretty far from the current tab, it's too long to count to do a <count>gt, and I have to reach for the mouse. Now if my tabs were numbered, I could press b <number>.

Javascript in .vimperatorrc? I'll give a look. Why is Firefox so complicated!?

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#9 2008-08-14 16:44:24

N30N
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Re: How can I display numbers on Firefox tabs?

:help B ain't good enough for ya?

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#10 2008-08-15 04:40:50

peets
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Re: How can I display numbers on Firefox tabs?

N30N wrote:

:help B ain't good enough for ya?

nope! tongue

I asked in the mozillazine forums: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic … 8&t=798745.

P.S. Today I saw someone using a Mac. Some people in the room were like "whoah, look at his kewl interface!" and I wondered "how can he waste so much time doing such simple window navigation and placement tasks?" Maybe this is going overboard with optimizing the interface, but why not do it? hehehe

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#11 2008-11-09 14:56:47

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Re: How can I display numbers on Firefox tabs?

Bringing this thread up again, I too have been looking for this kind of solution, and finally asked a good friend of mine to help me with this, so he created a very nifty extension to display (text-only) numbers on all the tabs: http://alouche.net/2008/11/09/firefox-addon-numext/

Hope you find it useful! big_smile


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#12 2008-11-09 16:38:20

eyolf
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Re: How can I display numbers on Firefox tabs?

Numbered tabs is currently being implemented natively in Vimperator. It's buggy at the moment, but it's on it's way.

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