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FishEyeTabs is a dynamic interactive tab that enables rapid selection from within large number of tabs without scrolling. FishEyeTabs is a very small extension for Mozilla Firefox with fisheye-style zooming. If tabs become too small, their labels are not readable. FishEyeTabs makes tab selection easier when many tabs are open.

Tabs scrolling was introduced in Firefox 1.5, which is very distracting, because the user has to switch from clicking tabs to clicking arrows and back. FishEyeTabs is an alternative to scrolling, it makes tabs visible using fisheye-style zooming. It is enough to move the mouse cursor over a tab, and it becomes visible automatically.

FishEyeTabs zooming becomes active when there are enough tabs open to occupy the whole width of the screen. The close button from the tabs has been moved to the right to make it easier to be clicked. Tabs are restored to standard size when a tab is opened or closed, or if the mouse cursor is moved down to the status line.

FishEyeTabs is a freeware and is distributed under the terms of the GNU/GPL. You can download the latest version of FishEyeTabs from here.

Thanks to Laszlo Kozma for this info.