Scroll through your tabs quickly

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If you've got more than five or ten tabs (like others do, say 20, or 60, yes!), here's a shortcut you'll love! How to scroll your tabs quickly!

Scrolling Tabs Quickly

Position your mouse over the arrows ("<"tab la or ">"tab right arrow) at the ends of the row of tabs,

tab scroll1

and try Double-clicking (on either one) ONCE.

tab scroll2b

Poof! It scrolled an entire screens width of tabs! Notice that the screen you're looking at has not changed, but the tabs above have.

cube anim Nope, nothing up my sleeve, it's been there all along. Why didn't anyone ever tell me about this? It works great! Well you can tell other people to look here, or just tell them the "secret". Doesn't matter, just spread the word!

Is there another way to scroll my tabs?

Have you got a mousewheel?

Well, do you have a little tiny wheel built into your mouse? If you do, you can postion the mouse cursor up imbetween the two arrows at the ends of the row of tabs. Do this by positioning the mouse cursor in the orange box below::

mouse wheel tab

Then try using your mouse wheel.

Shazam, just kidding. Get used to which direction your screen scrolls. Hope you're happier with Firefox, now that you have some more arrows in your quiver, for solving the problem with having more than seven tabs.

Other good stuff on tabs?

There is another way to deal with them in this good article Use Tab Groups to organize a lot of tabs, or this one which deals with what's known as "stacks" (which looks like a pile of baseball cards slightly twisted vertically), Mastering the Tab Group Editor.