Covert BarTab-like feature in Firefox 4.0 beta 7
A few weeks ago Paul O’Shannessy implemented cascading session restore. By doing that he took a big item off my to-do list for BarTab and made add-ons like Load Tabs Progressively redundant. Not only that, the number of concurrently loaded tabs can be tweaked through the browser.sessionstore.max_concurrent_tabs preference in about:config. If set to 0, you get instant BarTab-like behaviour. Great success!
In the meantime I have fixed a few Firefox 4.0 compatibility issues in BarTab. These fixes are in the latest BarTab beta, available from the BarTab beta channel. I’m very busy working on Firefox Sync these days so I can’t promise if I’ll be able to maintain BarTab and if it will ever officially support Firefox 4.0. But thanks to Paul, one of the biggest reasons for having BarTab installed just went away!
Vertical Tabs 0.7
Vertical Tabs has received a few updates as well and is now at version 0.7. Compatibility with Firefox 4.0 beta 7 (now the minimum required version) and recent nightlies has been restored. The styling now works better when Personas (lightweight themes) are installed. Since Firefox removed the status bar, Vertical Tabs no longer rolls a custom status bar on left, either. Instead the tabs toolbar has been moved there, and it’s fully customizable. You can, for instance, put your Sync toolbar button down there! Lastly, the Tabs on Top menu item has been removed since that choice does not make any sense once Vertical Tabs is installed.
Try out Firefox 4.0 beta 7 now!
