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firefox.phpmagazine.net — The Permatab extension allows you to create "sticky tabs" that can't be closed. Useful for keeping GMail, or Google Calendar open at all times.

Who dugg this? Made popular Dec 20, 2006

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  • yum9me, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Tab Mix Plus does that and more.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/
  • ahill7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Tab Mix Plus has Lock Tab and Protect Tab features. Which I use to keep them from closing or altering position.
  • BalsamLane, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Good point mitrebox. It could be useful in that application. Now lets bug Digg for a real thread comment system :)
  • brownspank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Look up ACCIDENTALLY.
  • ojk007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10thinking exactly the same thing
  • BalsamLane, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Riddle me this Batman, is this just a bookmark, less two clicks?
  • Amything, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"without any extensions, you can "Lock" and "Protect" Tabs."

    How do you do this?
  • Amything, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You must have an extension because right click does not provide those options for me.
  • Whaines, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6And only if you had just pressed the windows key + D you could have kept your job.
  • stepnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6you didn't beat me, i was just going to be disappointed if someone hadn't already said it.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You can set multiple tabs for your homepage, just seperate the urls with |. If you set up a work and a non-work profile and used the command-line to switch between the two, you could potentially do a lot more than just set up 'sticky tabs'.
  • themoose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Opera already has this feature built in.

    And I know this comment is going to be dugg down because of all these blind firefox lovers.
  • neeob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6exactly. must be frustrating for the opera software people to see their features getting 'stolen' all the time.
  • interiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Which sounds incredibly useful... until your boss walks by while you're viewing viagra spam, and you start pounding on ctrl+f4, only to release the tab is protected. So you start alt-tabbing hoping to bring something else to the fore, but realize your computer just crashed and when it booted up, you want to your favorite website straight away, and there's nothing else to alt-tab to. So you start minimizing urgently, while at the same time reaching for the monitor power switch, and all the while your cheeks turn redder and redder.
  • Ravenlock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4*Shrug* Opera's a great browser, just not as extensible as Firefox. If you care about raw speed and stability, you can't beat Opera. If you care about compatibility (yes, there are still a lot of sites that don't support Opera) and customizing your browser to do everything under the sun, Firefox is the only game in town.

    I'm super excited for Opera on the Wii, though. It's a PERFECT choice for that system.
  • Fragalishus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"it is little, but I could conceivably have all of my apps for work (8 separate sites) automatically open all at once."

    I think far too few people take advantage of the bookmarks toolbar folder. Create a folder in the toolbar folder, and put your 8 sites in there.

    http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/5895/tabsvz0.jpg

    Middle click the folder and tab all 8 sites in one click. Proper toolbar management kind of makes this extension useless, and in reaility more work. I can middle click any link in a new tab and it's a fresh page. As opposed to having to tab over to the sticky tab and refresh it. Hope that helps.
  • SwabTheDeck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've never had a problem with closing a tab that I wanted to keep open. Am I alone? The days seem longer and the nights seem colder as it seems I am the only one with highly developed manual tab management skills. There must be someone out there like me.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't know if this is necessarily a good thing. could end up being more annoying than anything else
  • mitrebox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5it is little, but I could conceivably have all of my apps for work (8 separate sites) automatically open all at once.

    Put a shortcut on the desktop that launches firefox with sticky tabs and use another shortcut to for sticky free.


    its a few less clicks but its a lot less aggravation when I close the browser and remeber one more thing I have to do.
  • ChrisPikula, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Er, everyone knows you can have firefox auto-startup with multiple tabs, right? Also via command line input as well, right? Right?
  • theaceoffire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2IE also eats children without an extension.
  • piesforyou, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Can you set your homepage tabs to startup locked and protected?
  • Ravenlock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Others have mentioned it, but I'd like to highly recommend the FavIconize tab as at least as useful - and if used together with this, maybe even more useful. I've got GMail, GCalendar, and a few other things permanently open taking up very little space at all thanks to that little wonder of an extension.
  • daniel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Tools, Options, Main, Startup.
  • MarcusAuric, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have so many bookmarks that this would be simpler.
  • Complexium, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9...something Opera already have.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4So how much longer until all Opera is good for is saying "we did that first?" You know, Netscape used to say that a lot.
  • mitrebox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4holy crab cheese batman!!!

    writeup isn't the greatest but the app if freakin awesome

    now if I could dictate the size of the tab and the icon.
  • Akaji, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Actually, it's the exact same thing as a quickbar bookmark - except it takes more clicks/keypresses (opening and refreshing a quickbar bookmark: one middle click. opening this tab thing and refreshing: ctrl-tab to it/left click on it, then hit refresh/F5). So, basically... seems useless to me.
  • shmatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2off-topic and suspiciously spam-ish
    thumbs down
  • MrCalifornia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Have you ever mistakenly middle clicked on a folder in your links bar? It automatically loads all the shortcuts in there OVER whatever you have open. This provides protection from that.
  • vh1`, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you could make two profiles, one 'work' and one 'play'. the work could have the home page be a reference to a folder in your bookmarks containing your work sites, then make your shell scripts to choose between the two


    ah damn, netdroid got to it before me
  • theaceoffire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just right click the tab again and uncheck protect and lock. Or uncheck freeze, which does both.
  • RobertBogley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1IE also does this without an extension
  • pennyfan87, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You have TabMixPlus installed, don't you?
  • tombest, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think tabmix+ is the extension that provides protect and lock.
  • MattVort, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So does Opera, and has done for years.

    Right click on tab -> Lock tab. To close it again you have to unlock the tab and close it as normal.
  • jessecollins, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Did anyone actually read that paragraph?

    "I was looking for this extension since long time..." == me love you long time.
    "Something I didn't like even that the author add it for fun..." == something i do like is a speaky english

  • theVariable, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thank you, daniel. And I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I love you with the fiery passion of a thousand suns... or firefoxes. Take your pick.
  • shmatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1FYI, I love TabMixplus, but it slows down your FF (at least on my old machine). Uninstalled yesterday and got a significant speed boost. Too bad....
  • daniel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Actually, that does sound kinda creepy. Anywho, glade I could help you out.
  • triblinator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1yeah, Opera has every feature firefox does... AND ITS BETTER!!1
  • SkyRider119, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very nice... I like the idea...
  • MikeCerm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Just think, if Opera hadn't continued to charge for their browser when every other browser was free, they could have made a market for themselves. Firefox was able to swoop in a eat their lunch. Now that they're free (as in beer), if Opera would open up their browser and allow extensions (the way Firefox does), more people might give them a look.

    Out of the box, Opera is great, but there are a few things I don't like about it. There are also a few things I don't like about Firefox, but extensions fix virtually everything (except for absurdly high memory usage, but I don't mind restarting the browser once in a while).
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Tab Mix Plus FTW!!
  • shmatt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Is this new in 2.0?
  • calebcharles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You know, this extension beats the TabMixPlus mini favicon overlays.
  • Pekay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1TabMixPlus has this feature anyway.
  • Robotsu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This just changed my world. I guess sliced bread remains comfortably on it's thrown, though.
  • skez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2not to sackride, but opera has been doing this for ages
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