Scroll through your tabs quickly

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If you've got more than five or ten tabs (like many other people do), say 20, 60 or more, here's a shortcut you'll love!

Scrolling Tabs Quickly

Position your mouse over the arrows at either end of the of the row of tabs ("<"or ">").

Here: tab la or there:tab right arrow

When you've got your mouse cursor properly positioned,

tab scroll1

watch the row of tabs, when you go ahead, and try Double-clicking ONCE (on either arrow).

tab scroll2c

Wow! It scrolled an entire screen's width of tabs! Please notice that the the tabs above have changed, but the rest of the screen, still remains the same. This feature has been there all along. We wish we had informed you of this one, earlier.

But now, that you've got it down, go ahead, and use it, with confidence, at any point.

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 position the mouse cursor, between the two arrows at each end, of the row of tabs. You can do this, by positioning the mouse cursor, inside the orange box below:

mouse wheel tab

Then try using your mouse wheel.

You should get used to which direction your screen scrolls, in response to, your mouse wheel movement.


We hope you're happier with Firefox, having spent the time, to learn this quick way to scroll through your tabs.