I personally don't like having a lot of tabs open in any of the browsers I use. It doesn't matter if the operating system is lighter or heavier, I only have the necessary tabs open. If any seem important to me, I keep them and look at them later, but don't keep them open. But there are people who are not like that, who have dozens of web pages open in the same browser. I do not recommend it, but Firefox posted on his Twitter account a trick that this type of "Power Users" will love.
As you can see in the previous image, the trick is simple: we will put the symbol of the one hundred percent «%» (without quotes), a space and we can search among the tabs that we have open. If, like me, you are one of those who open few tabs, in the case of capturing only 5, all of them will be shown. if we do not write anything after the percentage point In total, up to 9 tabs will appear. What why 9? Well, because what completes the round number of 10 is the option to search the internet, in my case DuckDuckGo.
Search for tabs on devices connected to Firefox Sync
Pro tip: type% in the URL bar to search your open tabs.
If you have more than one device synced, you can search the tabs on your other devices, too!
- Firefox? (@firefox) March 19, 2019
«Pro tip: type & in the URL bar to search your open tabs. If you have more than one paired device, you can also search in the tabs of your other devices »
This search for tabs will make more sense if we have more than one device synced with Firefox Sync. The Firefox Sync is an option that allows us to synchronize bookmarks, extensions, passwords, history and, as far as this post is concerned, tabs. I have been testing for a while and the function does not work very well if the tabs we want to synchronize are from Firefox for iOS, but it does work with those from another computer.
As you can see in the screenshot, next to each link we see a text that says "Change the tab" that tells us that by clicking on your information we can change to the tab that we were looking for. Interesting, right?
