Numbered Tab Goodness

This is for adventurous Firefox users. Say you have 9 tabs open and you want to jump between them, but would like to use keyboard shortcuts to do it. (Ctl + “tab number"). Well, to make it easier—without having to stop to count the tabs—you can install a cool little extension (Numbered Tabs for Firefox) that overlays a transparent number image on your tabs. The current downside is that you have to install it yourself (in the Chrome folder your Firefox uses), which means you have to know where to put it and I didn’t.

So....I learned that I could install another extension called ChromEdit which makes tinkering with the stuff in the Chrome folder a whole lot easier. It told me immediately where the Chrome folder was that my Firefox uses (not where I thought it was) so that I could copy the transparent tab number images to the folder. And I also used the ChromEdit window to edit the UserChrome.css file that my Firefox uses to insert the numbered tab css code. And now I have numbered tabs. YaY!!

(reference to the numbered tabs found at ChasingDaisy who is a really, really interesting read with the greatest links. The fellow who wrote the tab number thingy writes other really great stuff, too. Box of chocolates.)