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This post talks about utilizing faviconize tab extension with other greasemonkey scripts and addons to effectively reduce the cluttering due to too many tabs in your firefox. Free yourselves from the tabs panic.

Note : You need to install Faviconize Tab before you proceed with following the below mentioned addons.

If you have faviconize tabs installed and know about it, then skip to Faviconize All Tabs Section

Faviconize Tabs

Faviconize Tab is a wonderful addon which can be helpful for the users who browse heavily with firefox. This addon provides an option to reduce the size of the tab to the favicon of the site reducing clutter.

Before Faviconize

After Faviconize

Download page for Faviconize Tab :

Faviconize All Tabs

I love using Faviconize Tabs and was thinking why is this not a default firefox feature and why in the world would I need to see ‘Site Name – Some Crap Text‘ (Like ‘Gmail – Inbox(3123) – xxx@gmail.com‘) in the tab title to know that its gmail’s tab, if I can simply understand that it is the tab for gmail from the favicon displayed in the tab.

So we can faviconize each tab and keep it simple. But the prob is, every time I have to faviconize any tab, I need to right click and select faviconize and I have to repeat for all the tabs… Is it so? Not really..

Go to Faviconize Preferences and in the Auto Faviconize, put ‘*’ as wildcard. Now every tab you open will be faviconized

Gmail FavIcon Alerts 3

But now you might ask me that the long title in the tab, Gmail – Inbox (No of Unread Messages), is very useful. Atleast you can get to know if you get a new mail, which is not possible with a faviconized tab. But there is an useful greasemonkey script which displays unread count in the tab and also the incoming chat indication in the tab…

Unread Messages

No Unread Message

Incoming Chat

Download Page :

GReader FavIcon Alerts

So what about Google Reader? Fortunately we have something for that too…

Unread Message Count

Unread Message greater than 1K

Download Page :

NOTE: You need GreaseMonkey installed to setup the above to scripts

Tree tabs

So you dont like the tabs on the top or do you think that you need to know from whether you opened this page (Parent page)? Then treetabs is there for you…  Its self explanatory, check the screenshot.

Download page :

Faviconize tabs +(Gmail +Greader) Favicon Alerts +Tree Tabs =  Ultimate Clutter Reduction in Firefox…

GoogleMonkeyR is a nice greasemonkey script which totally revamps the google search results. There are tons of features, which are customizable, in this tiny script. Some noticable features like multicolumn results, autoload next page (ajax), site preview etc are present.

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To classify the feeds subscribed at Google reader, based on certain rules, Google Reader Filter can be used. Its a simple GreaseMonkey script for Firefox, which means we don’t need to install any addons to activate it. Once this script is installed we can specify the conditions based on which the highlight/exclusion is applied.

Refresh Google Reader and click on filter settings button on the right top and enter your rules in plain text. For specifying advanced rules, few of the RegEx chars can be used.

* Here Trial|Shareware|Demo|Adware in the Excludes section implies that any one of the keyword match from the four specified will exclude (greys out) that post

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We access few of the sites very frequently that we tend to keep a tab in the browser for it reserved. But why keep too many tabs open? Or why should we switch our tabs frequently to check for new mails/chats. Add those sites in your firefox sidebar easily

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Get snapshots of the internet pages you cannot access to, by just sending an email. If you don’t have access to internet but can use your corporate email; these service serves its best. This might also be helpful for those who want to take a peek at the sites blocked by their network admins.

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