Faviconize – a New Favorite Firefox Extension

Faviconize is one of those extensions that seems so necessary — after you’ve seen it for the first time. Had I ever thought I needed a way to shrink a tab down to just the favicon? Nope. But once I knew the extension existed I just had to have it! Just imagine all the tab space recovered.

Here’s a shot of what my browser looks like at this moment (little sparse on tabs, but you get the idea):

The first four tabs I have “faviconized”. Believe me, I know those icons by heart and the space savings is welcome. [New Quiz Feature!] Can you identify what those four tabs are?

A big plus is the “Quick Faviconize” feature. I have it set to ctrl-click, so that when ever I ctrl-click a tab it toggles between iconized and normal.

Trivia: Did you know that in Firefox you can close a tab via a “wheel-click” (middle-click on 3-button mouse)? So, if you’re using this extension and lamenting the lack of the new FF 2.0 tab close button, just wheel-click.

[via Download Squad]

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