Firefox: Mozilla's out with
the 1.0 of its Weave project, and it delivers on
what it first promised—quiet, complete syncing of
bookmarks, passwords, preferences, history, and even open tabs. It
also heralds the coming of a really cool mobile experience.
If Weave synced your currently installed add-ons, you'd be up and running after a fresh Firefox installation in 2 minutes. As it is, Weave is still a very efficient and lightweight sync of your core Firefox experience, allow...
Firefox: If you've ever started up Firefox after a system crash and had it attempt to restore all the eleventy-billion tabs you had open, you know what a resource drain your tabs really are. BarTap helps alleviate the stress.
BarTap is a Firefox extension that keeps unfocused tabs from sponging up system resources. When BarTap is active you can specify that new tabs and restored tabs will not be loaded until they are actually clicked on, turning the tabs into placeholders for the pages you will be viewing and minimizing the amount of system resources devoted to them. You can specify one action for restored tabs and one for freshly opened tabs if you pref...
