How to Enable IE Like “Quick Tabs” Feature (All Tabs Previews) in Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla has included various cool eye-candy features since the development of Firefox 3.6 version. Some of them are “Ctrl+Tab Preview Thumbnails” and “Taskbar Tab Preview Thumbnails“.

Today we are going to share another cool feature in Firefox which is not enabled by default.

Mozilla Firefox also provides IE like “Quick Tabs” feature which is called “All Tabs Preview“. It allows you to see small thumbnails of all running tabs in a single tab as shown in following screenshot:

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You can click on a desired thumbnail to activate that particular tab.

You can enable this new feature by using following simple steps:

1. Open firefox and type about:config in the addressbar and press Enter. It’ll confirm, click on I’ll be careful, I promise! button.

2. Now type alltabs in the Filter box and look for following boolean key:

browser.allTabs.previews

3. The entry “browser.allTabs.previews” would be set to false. Double-click on it or right-click on it and select “Toggle“. It’ll set its value to true.

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4. That’s it. Now you can access the new “All Tabs Previews” feature by clicking on small square icon given at the end of Tab Bar.

Thanks to our reader “JrColas22” for bringing it to our attention…

Published in: Mozilla Firefox

About the author: Vishal Gupta (also known as VG) has been awarded with Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award. He holds Masters degree in Computer Applications (MCA). He has written several tech articles for popular newspapers and magazines and has also appeared in tech shows on various TV channels.

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  1. Just like google chrome in which we have thumnail preview for webpages opened earlie can we have same in internet explorer 8 in windows xp sp3?

  2. When I open the customize menu it shows, but it’s not there when I’m normally browsing.

  3. I’m having problems with the icon on Tab Bar.
    Mozilla changed browser.allTabs.previews to string, so I can’t toggle it.

  4. Oh yeah thats because firefox 26 has a button (hidden , which can be visible from Toolbar Layout) which has this capability

  5. For 29+ users!! I found out how to get it back with this add on!!!! If you’re like me this feature was super useful!

    addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/all-tabs-restorer/

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