Shrink Your Tabs with FaviconizeTab


FaviconizeTab is a Firefox Extension.

You can download it from the Firefox Add-Ons site.


FaviconizeTab is a great extension to have for times that you have lots tabs open at once. With this extension, you can shrink any tab down to the size of a favicon.

To watch a video on using FaviconizeTab, click on the “Play Video” button below. Or, scroll down for step-by-step instructions with screenshots:

 

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Step-by-Step Instructions with Screenshots

Let’s say you have 4 open tabs:

 

 

Right-click on any one of the tabs and choose FaviconizeTab:

 

 

That tab will shrink down to the size of a favicon, resulting in more free space on your Tab Bar

 

 

To make the tab regular size once again, just repeat: Right-click on the tab and choose FaviconizeTab.

You can shrink down all 4 of your tabs:

 

 

Or, maybe just 2 of them:

 

 

It’s up to you!

FaviconizeTab also let’s you do a little bit of customization. Just go to the “Options” window. If you’re not sure how to get there, click here to find out how.

 

 

1. You can set it so that a tab will be “faviconized” with a combination of keystroke + mouse click, or

2. You can have certain websites automatically “faviconized.” Just check the box labeled “Enable auto faviconize,” and list the websites in the space provided below.