My Firefox Tab Management Setup

I had posted a little something yesterday, but thought it deserved a slightly fuller treatment. Browser tabs are awesome, as all browser makers now recognize. I run three Firefox extensions that play nicely together, and make for a tab experience I love, especially since I tend to have lots of tabs going all the time:

1. Tab Kit: among other things, this allows me to run the tabs vertically down the left hand side. While it takes getting used to, it’s much better than across the top. Since monitors are wide but web pages tend to be “tall”, you naturally have room on the side if you’re running at a decent resolution, and even with a ton of tabs open you can still see the title of each tab (unlike across the top, where the space for tab titles shrinks with each new tab). It also supports tab grouping and sorting and a bunch of other tweaks.
2. BarTap: one problem with keeping a ton of tabs going is how long it takes the browser to start up and load all the pages at once (assuming you have FF set to restore your tabs). BarTap solves this by displaying tabs (with the page titles) for all the tabs you had open, but it doesn’t actually load them until you visit them. MUCH faster to start up when you’ve carried over a bunch of tabs. (via rob)
3. Close Tab by Double Click: self-explanatory.