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Tab Preview for Firefox / Flock

October 21, 2005 by in Tech with 7 Comments

Tab Preview is an extension for Firefox 1.5 that shows a preview of tab contents when you move your mouse over a background tab. It’s simple to use, but surprisingly useful.

Ted’s Mozilla page – Tab Preview

Have you ever found yourself juggling too many tabs while browsing with Firefox? I’m usually bouncing between a minimum of 15 tabs. Often times I find myself wondering what the other tabs might have open. Although each tab contains a short title, most of these are cut off due to the number of open tabs. For readers utilizing Flock, I’ve mirrored a working Flock version of the Tab Preview extension here. (Right-click and select “Save as”)

Flock users that are interested in an unofficial list of working / semi-working extensions can check here.


  • Dylan

    Wow! This is exactly what I need. Thanks Derek, you’ve done it agian!

  • Dylan

    Question, you can only make an extension work with flock if your the creator right? or can you do it with a downloaded extension thats not yours

  • Derek Punsalan

    You can edit the extension yourself as long as you don’t pass the work off as your own.

  • Dylan

    so where is the install .rdf located?

  • Derek Punsalan

    Save the .xpi extension to your desktop. Change the file extension to .zip. Unzip the archive and you’ll find the install.rdf. Edit the file and zip everything back up, then rename the .zip to .xpi and drag into the Flock window.

  • http://ted.mielczarek.org/ Ted Mielczarek

    Cool! I haven’t played with flock yet, but nice to see that extensions are portable to it. Is this just an install.rdf change? If so I’ll put that into Tab Preview right away.

    -Ted

  • Derek Punsalan

    As far as I can tell it is a install.rdf change and nothing else. The extension works perfectly.

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