This is a bit of an odd question. However, I'm horribly sloppy with my tabs in firefox. I'll open a bunch of tabs for different projects I'm working on and not come back and close them for days. Sometimes I open multiple Gmails or multiple Outlook web access tabs… and more recently.. Grooveshark tabs. Is there any good way of dealing with this? I feel like it would be nice if I could define websites… that if I opened up a new tab and tried going to one of those sites that's open in another window/tab, it would bring me to the first instance of that tab instead.
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You could use BarTab, but I find it doesn't work too well with Firefox 4/5.
Another more reliable way is to use the new about:config property, browser.sessionstore.max_concurrent_tabs.
Go to about:config in firefox and search for browser.sessionstore.max_concurrent_tabs. Set the integer value to 0.
Now when you start up Firefox, only the first open tab will be opened. All the rest need to be clicked/focused on before they are actually loaded.
Best Answer
I don't know how to do it exactly as you request. I'm unsure if we can reuse an existing tab when typing in an address if it happens to be on the same domain of an opened tab.
However, Closy allows you to close duplicate tabs, while TabCloser allows you to close tabs with the same domain name.