It’s known fact that human creativity is border-less. Here is how the creativity was applied to tech. Google Chrome looks and feels in Firefox, anyone? It is neat and pretty closed to Chrome, especially the forward and backward button, refresh and Home button. Even the page tab is quite closed, but because of the page tab implementation in Firefox and Chrome is different, the end result is not too closed. Thanks to TylerC that develop this theme, called Chromifox.
As a matter of fact, Google Chrome is third most used web browser, behind only Firefox in term of market share.
The new concept of Firefox’s new tab page is still on beta stage, and only available on future Firefox release version 3.5. If you can’t wait for the new tab page style to come, give Foxtab a try.
Foxtab is Firefox add-on that let you turn the blank new tab, to something more interactive. It won’t appear automatically when the new tab page opened, but you have to open it manually from the shortcut menu, available on the left side of the URL bar. That means, it can be opened on top of other tab too, including tab page that displys other web page too.
But unlike other browser’s new tab page that display the recent or most frequently visited websites, Foxtab only shows the websites currently opened. Quite disappointing, since what’s the point of showing the thumbnail of the sites already opened?
Graphical wise, Foxtab is quite impressive. It has 5 navigation layout style including Safari’s new tab page style looks alike and Vista’s Alt-Tab thumbnail preview style.
This little tweak will show the number of Gmail’s unread emails on the browser title bar become even clearer. It’s there by default, but if you open too many tabs simultaneously, it won’t shows the number in complete. This is how the default Gmail browser title bar looks like. See how the number truncated to ’70…’
After Gmail Lab’s Title Tweak enabled, the title changed from “Gmail – Inbox (20) – zakif@gmail.com” (above screen shot) to “Inbox (20) – zakif@gmail.com – Gmail (below screen shot)
To enable this, go to ‘Setting’ – ‘Lab’ – ‘Title Tweek’. Now you can view the number in complete.
Want more? With firefox add ons Better Gmail 2, the number of unread emails will appear at the bottom of Gmail favicon. But since I have tonnes of unread emails which at 7k, the favicon only shows ‘99+‘ .
