Tab Mix Plus is a very popular legacy extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser that enhances Firefox's tab browsing abilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more.
Session Manager feature is not included at the moment since it requires complete rewrite.
If you are interested in keeping Tab Mix Plus working, please donate.
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Legacy extensions loader
Since Firefox removed the internal component that loads legacy extension, in order to install Tab Mix Plus, or any other legacy extension, you have to install 3rd party helper scripts.
1.1. Open about:support
and locate the path to your Application Binary and Profile Folder.
1.2. Install configuration files to your Application Binary folder.
fx-folder.zip
files are packed with paths used by Firefox for Windows, Linux
and MacOS
users should follow the instructions below.
1.3. Create chrome
folder in your Profile Folder (if one does not exist).
1.4. Extract utils folder inside the chrome
folder, the result should be [PROFILE_NAME]/chrome/utils
, all the files should be in the utils
folder (see the screenshot below).
1.5. Open about:support
page and click "Clear startup cache…" to force Firefox to load the installed scripts on the next startup.
1.6. Start Firefox again.
1.7. Follow the instructions below to install Tab Mix Plus
.
Download XPI
Download xpi file from our releases page to your local computer.
All Tab Mix Plus downloads are also located here.
If you are using Firefox Beta, Developer Edition or Nightly we recommend using the latest Tab Mix Plus development build (tags with pre or test-build in the title)
Install XPI
To install the file you have just downloaded:
Add-ons Manager
tab (about:addons) and select Extensions
.Add-ons and Themes
and select Extensions
.If Tab Mix Plus stops working after Firefox update was installed or when you try to install Tab Mix you get a message that it appears to be corrupt
, follow these instructions
Uninstall Tab Mix Plus.
Close Firefox and reinstall the latest versions of these scripts (see instructions above):
Install configuration files to your Application Binary folder.
Extract utils folder to chrome
in your in your Profile Folder.
Some users report that their Firefox is not able to install or use Tab Mix Plus unless they set extensions.experiments.enabled
to true in about:config
.
Open about:support page and click "Clear startup cache…" to force Firefox to load the installed scripts on the next startup.
After Firefox starts Reinstall latest Tab Mix Plus again.
For Pale Moon download Tab Mix Plus from here
Tab Mix Plus comes with Options window that includes all of its preferences as well as adding user interface to important Firefox hidden preferences. It is recommended that you make all changes to the preference in the options window. The options window is available from the Add-ons Manager or from the Tools menu (unless you turn this option off).
Read the docs (please 🙏):