Bring some Expose to Firefox 1.5 with foXpose

By David Chartier

Looks like Firefox 1.5 built in some cool new tools for extension writers, and  the folks at Viamatic Softwares have a couple of great examples, the most notable of which is foXpose – Exposé for Firefox tabs. This extension enables a small button in the left side of the status bar which, when clicked, displays thumbnails of all the open tabs in the window. The extension is also supposed to enable the keyboard shortcut ctrl + shift + x to do the same thing, but it seems like that might only work on Windows (can anyone confirm?).

[UPDATE: The keyboard shortcut works on OS X, it's just different. Use cmd + shift + X]

This extension allows Firefox to join the ranks of browsers that bring the really hand ideal of Exposé to the tabbed browsing experience, and when I say "ranks" I mean Shiira, as its the only other browser I know that can do this. Like I asked yesterday on the Backpack extension for Firefox: PimpMySafari.com – are you listening? 

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