Informational Tab Ver.0.5.2017061501 for Mozilla Firefox

What's this? ...abstract

This provides thumbnail-style preview for each tab, does progress meter, and indicates unread status.

This is developed under a project to restructure TBE for Firefox 2.

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• Git repository / source code

If you see any problem, see FAQ at first. If there is no solution, post a report to the issue tracker on the GitHub please.

Features & Screenshots This package provides following features.

Appearance of progress bar in tabs can be changed.

History There is the updating history and the list of known problems.

0.5.2017061501

• Supports Nightly 56.0a1.
• Hide label container in pinned tabs correctly
• Better descriptions for configurations about the sole tab of a window.
• Better compatibility with the latest version of the Suspend Tab.
• Don't mark tab as "read", when the tab is selected but not scrolled.
• Show thumbnail after the number of collapsed tabs for Tree Style Tab, when it is configured to be placed before a closebox.

0.5.2016010501

• Supports Nightly 46.0a1.
• Events in the content area are correctly handled even if tabs' remoteness is dynamically changed.

0.5.2014100302

• Use Timer.jsm instead of my alternative library.

0.5.2014100301

• Works correctly on the multi-process mode (E10S).
• Drop support for Firefox 30 and older versions.
• Don't show configuration UI for the preference browser.tabs.closeButtons removed on Firefox 32 and later.

0.4.2013053001

• Fixed: Load ru locale correctly. (by Infocatcher)

0.4.2013052901

• Drop support for Firefox 10-16
• Improved: Shrink the size of thumbnails in tabs smaller than width of their owner tabs. (foolproof)
• Improved: Frequency for re-rendering of thumbnails in tabs by changed preferences becomes customizable and throttled. You can change the interval by a secret preference "extensions.informationaltab.thumbnail.updatealldelay".
• Modified: "jar" archive is no longer included.
• Modified: Delete all evalInSandbox() codes
• Modified: Update codes around session store API.
• ru locale is updated by Infocatcher. Thanks!

4.0.2012122901

• Works on Nightly 20.0a1.

0.4.2012111001

• Improved: Reduce CPU usage of updating thumbnails
• Fixed: Reduce dependencies about an old version of Tree Style Tab.

0.4.2012020901

• Updated for Nightly 13.0a1.
• Drop support for Firefox 3.6.
• Improved: Better compatibility with other tab-related addons. Now this addon doesn't apply custom binding to <tab/>s.
• Fixed: Thumbnails of to-be-restored tabs were not restored.
• Fixed: Sometimes position of progress meters in tabs were broken.
• Fixed: When Personal Titlebar was installed, initializing process was wrongly called twice.
• da-DK locale is now available, translated by Regmos.
• zh-CN locale is updated by hzhbest.

0.3.2011020301

• Improved: Thumbnail of tabs are shown if they are avialable, on about:sessionrestore.
• Improved: Works with Personal Titlebar.
• Improved: Works with DragNDrop Toolbars.

0.3.2011011701

• Works on Minefield 4.0b10pre.
• Drop support for Firefox 3.0.

0.3.2010062901

• Improved: Thumbnail in a tab is automatically hidden when it is pinned by pinTab() . (on Minefield 3.7a6pre)
• ru-RU locale is updated by L'Autour.

0.3.2010032901

• Fixed: Features are re-enabled after you exit the print preview mode on Firefox 3.6 or later.

0.3.2010032801

• Improved: Works with Minefield 3.7a4pre.
• es-ES locale is updated by tito.
• zh-CN locale is available, translated by hzhbest.

0.3.2010020301

• pl locale is available, translated by by Leszek (teo) Życzkowski.

0.3.2010020201

• Improved: Last thumbnails for tabs are stored to the session information. (Thumbnails for restored tabs are shown even if BarTap is installed.)
• Fixed: Thumbnails are updated immediately by changing of configurations.
• Fixed: Square images are fit to the canvas correctly.
• Fixed: Wrongly positioned (too expanded) progress bar disappeared.
• it-IT locale is updated. (by Godai71)
• hu-HU locale is updated. (by Mikes Kaszmán István)

0.3.2009100802

• Improved: Now you can change appearance of progress bar in tabs.
• Fixed: Progress bar in tabs is shown correctly even if tab contents are rearranged.

0.3.2009100801

• Fixed: Progress bar in tabs are shown at their correct position.
• hu-HU locale is updated. (by Mikes Kaszmán István)

0.3.2009100701

• Improved: Appearance of progress bar in tab becomes like the mockup for Firefox 3.7. (And you can change the style to old appearance.)
• Improved: Works with pie graph icon on trunk.
• Improved: Works with CookiePie.
• Modified: Now modifications of tab attributes are ignored. (for reducing of CPU usage)

0.3.2009090201

• it-IT locale is updated by Godai71
• hu-HU locale is updated. (by Mikes Kaszmán István)

0.3.2009062901

• Improved: Redarawings of thumbnails by page scrolling can be disabled.
• Improved: Trimmed thumbnails for tabs are available.
• Fixed: Throbber in tabs is correctly shown with Firefox 3.5 on Mac OS X.
• it-IT locale is updated by Godai71

0.3.2009051301

• Updated for Tree Style Tab 0.7.2009051301.

0.3.2009043002

• Works on Minefield.

0.3.2009043001

• Fixed: Moving of tab from an window to another works correctly on Shiretoko 3.5b5pre.

0.3.2009042901

• Improved: Thumbnail rendering for a tab which is showing only an image is optimized.

0.3.2009040201

• Works on Minefield again.

0.3.2009032501

• Modified: Color of progress meter in tabs is changed.
• Fixed: Special styles for tab labels are correctly removed when thumbnails are disabled.

0.3.2009021201

• Added: ru-RU locale is available. (by L'Autour)
• it-IT locale is updated. (by Godai71)

0.3.2008112201

• Fixed: Works on Minefield 3.1b2pre again.

0.3.2008102101

• Improved: Thumbnails in tabs can be shown above/below/behind their title.
• hu-HU locale is updated. (by Mikes Kaszmán István)

0.3.2008101701

• Fixed: Drag and drop of tabs from an window to another works correctly on Minefield 3.1b2pre.

0.3.2008101501

• Improved: Works on Minefield 3.1b2pre.
• Improved: Thumbnails can be updated for animations. (Available only on Minefield 3.1b2pre or later.)
• Improved: The close box in the last tab can be shown. (Available only on Minefield 3.1b2pre or later.)
• Improved: Tabs can be "read" when the tab get focus.
• Fixed: A tab which has only an image or non-scrollable contents is correctly marked as "read" when it gets focus.
• Fixed: Tabs scrolled in background keep themselves "unread".

0.2.2008062001

• Improved: Works with Tree Style Tab better.
• Fixed: Progress meters in tabs are correctly hidden after pages are loaded.

0.2.2008061601

• Fixed: Broken appearance on Mac OS X disappeared.

0.2.2008040701

• Works on Firefox 3 beta5.

0.2.2008030901

• Spanish locale is available. (by tito, Thanks!)
• Works on Minefield 3.0b5pre.

0.2.2008022201

• Improved: Works on Firefox 3 beta3.

0.2.2007110601

• Fixed: Broken tab icon with thumbnail before the icon is corrected.
• Fixed: Position of thumbnail in rightside tabs shown by Tree Style Tab is corrected.

0.2.2007110501

• Fixed: Works with Tab Mix Plus correctly.
• Fixed: Wrong aspect ratio for the tab only includes image disappeared.
• Added: Italian locale is available. (made by Godai71.Extenzilla)

0.2.2007103101

• Fixed: Works with ImgLikeOpera correctly.

0.2.2007102702

• Fixed: Fixed aspect ratio works correctly.

0.2.2007102701

• Modified: Aspect ratio of thumbnails is fixed to 4:3.
• Added: Netherlandic locale is available. (made by Neglacio)

0.2.2007102601

• Fixed: Crash on print preview disappeared.

0.2.2007102501

• Improved: The position thumbnails are insterted to is changed when appearance of tabs is inverted for rightside tabs by Tree Style Tab.

0.2.2007060601

• Fixed: Uninstallation is handled correctly.
• Added: Hungarian locale is available.

0.2.2007050601

• Improved: UI to customize appearance of close buttons in tabs is available.

0.1.2007042503

• Fixed: Broken thumbnail for images disappeared.

0.1.2007042502

• Fixed: Works with All-in-One Gestures correctly.

0.1.2007042501

• Released.