Thing One: an extra helping- FoxTabs and tab management

Lots of people seem to be interested in visual alternatives to iGoogle and netvibes, many mentioning that they used custom start pages from Chrome and Firefox.  I introduced myfav.es yesterday.  The dodgy name aside, the product is incredibly beautiful, providing a designer alternative to those clumps of text we hate to see first thing in the morning.

So we all like the myfav.es look, we have four or five sites on there, it's 9:05 and the browsing experience still bears all the hallmarks of sleek, designer zen.  What happens when we get to mid-morning and we have six to a dozen tabs open?  It's not looking so minimalist now.  That's where tab management comes in.

If you don't want to close or bookmark for later the tabs you are working with, then you need to find a way to stay in control of them.  FoxTab, using a similar design to myfav.es, lets you flick through currently open tabs

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store, update and amend your favourite tabs

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and see which tabs you've recently closed

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There are a selection of views, angles and background colours to play with.  These control screens can be accessed by clicking the FoxTab logo installed next to your address bar, or by hitting Ctrl + Q.  The middle example shows the static 'wall' display mode, but the others can all be spun with Ctrl + Tab or, in either direction, by using your wheel mouse.  These keyboard shortcuts can be amended by users to keys more comfortable for them.

Currently it's only available for Firefox, but it's intuitive to use, easy to install and gives you an instant snapshot of what's going on on your browser.