Discovery: Wheel mouse scrolls tabs in browser

[soybean]

This is not a question, just a comment that might be of interest to some viewers.  I just discovered something I had never noticed before. With Firefox open and with too many tabs open to be displayed all at the same time on the tabs bar, hovering my wheel mouse over the tabs bar and then moving the wheel scrolls the tabs.  Before now, I had always used the arrows at both ends of the tabs bar to scroll tabs. 

I'm running Win 7 RC and Firefox 3.3.5 on the system with which I discovered this.  I have not tried it with IE yet.

[Salmon Trout]

I have multiple tab rows.

[soybean]

How do you do that?   

[Allan]

Tab Mix Plus - one of the best & most useful add ons

[soybean]

Thanks, I may try it.  BTW, I'm using ColorfulTabs, also a nice add-on.

[Allan]

Yep - been using that since it first came out - nice add on.

[soybean]

I have multiple tab rows.

Salmon Trout, can you confirm whether you use Tab Mix Plus, or is there some other way do to this?

Edit: And, was the scrolling technique familiar to any of you?  As I said, I just discovered it.

[Allan]

Yes, I've known about it all along. Not sure if I originally found it by accident or if I read about it. My primary browser is IE, but I tend to play around with all "new" apps that I install and find out as much as I can about them.

[Salmon Trout]

I use Tab Mix Plus, and I have set the maximum rows to 5, although in practice I never have more than 2 visible.

[edit] I just Googled for others, and found and installed Tab Kit 0.5.8.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5447

After installation, it makes you restart Firefox. Be warned, if you already have Tab Mix Plus enabled, at this point they fight each other, and after a longish pause (1 or 2 mins) you get a message saying they are incompatible, and asking which one you want to disable. I am using it now, I can't see a lot of difference to be honest.

[soybean]

Thanks for that info. 

I see the default Firefox tabs bar has another feature I haven't paid any attention to but, now that I look at it, I think I may use.  It's the drop-down arrow at the right end of the tabs bar which displays a list of all open tabs in that window.