{"id":3870,"date":"2007-12-18T17:21:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T16:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/a-handy-way-to-switch-between-tabs\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:37:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:37:46","slug":"a-handy-way-to-switch-between-tabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/a-handy-way-to-switch-between-tabs\/","title":{"rendered":"A handy way to switch between tabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite Firefox extensions is <a href=\"http:\/\/tab-mix-plus-extension.en.softonic.com\/\">Tab Mix Plus<\/a>. I love this great tool for managing tabs so much that I can&#8217;t use Firefox without it anymore. The funny thing is that, after having this extension in my computer for a couple of years, I still find new features in it, like the one I discovered today surprisingly hidden in its settings menu: the ability to display a pop-up window that enables you to switch between tabs in a really comfortable way.<\/p>\n<p>This feature takes advantage of the browser&#8217;s embedded functionality to change between tabs by pressing Ctrl+Tab. What Tab Mix Plus does is displaying a small menu on top of the browser with the list of all your currently opened tabs, which enables you to choose the appropriate one in a much easier way. Just keep on pressing the Tab key and release the keys when you reach the browser tab you want &#8211; just like the Alt+Tab works for apps.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A great feature in Tab Mix Plus\" id=\"image3871\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/12\/tabmix01.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>To turn this setting on, open the Tab Mix Plus options window and click on <em>Events<\/em>. Then go to <em>Tab Features<\/em> and tick the &#8220;Ctrl-Tab displays a tab list popup menu&#8221; option. Hit <em>Apply<\/em> and <em>OK<\/em>, and it&#8217;ll be ready to use.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A great feature in Tab Mix Plus\" id=\"image3872\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/12\/tabmix02.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Being particularly useful for those of us who work with a dozen simultaneous tabs, I&#8217;m already wondering how I could live without this trick for all these years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite Firefox extensions is Tab Mix Plus. I love this great tool for managing tabs so much that I can&#8217;t use Firefox without it anymore. The funny thing is that, after having this extension in my computer for a couple of years, I still find new features in it, like the one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/a-handy-way-to-switch-between-tabs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A handy way to switch between tabs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2586],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-3870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionswitch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336575,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions\/336575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}