How to lock or protect tabs in Firefox

[Sara.S]

Hi,, i am in need of some info from you all guys and hope you can help me for sure. I use Mozilla Firefox as my default web browser on Windows XP. While browsing for some tips for Firefox browser here on this forum, i got the following post regarding the same How to customize tabs in Firefox . Thanks for the tips.

Now, what i wanted to know is how can i protect or lock a tab in Firefox so that it cannot be closed accidentally or else ? I have seen many user doing this, and it can be really useful for me. Could you guys please make me know the same ? Thanks ....

[Techguru01]

There is any easy way to lock or protect your opened tabs in Firefox. What you need to do is just right-click any tab and two of the options on the menu are "Lock Tab" and "Protect Tab". You must know that both of these options are not only for preventing tabs from getting closed.

If you'll choose the Prevent Tab option, than your tab will be prevented from getting closed. And if you'll choose Lock Tab option, it will be prevented from navigating to another page or URL. Your tab is locked on the current page or URL.

[Trio]

There is an easy way of doing all these things with your Firefox Tabs.. There is an Add-on for Firefox named as Tabberwocky that gives you many option to perform with the tabs like duplicate, protect, & lock tab, open selected links, multirow tab bar, tab progress bars, new & close tab buttons, tab clicking, tab opening & closing, menu items, and more! Other features like opening tabs to the right of the current tab or switching to the last selected tab upon closing a tab are also activated right away.Tabberwocky is a free and light Firefox extension which offers users various options to control the tab feature.

[Jackson2]

Yeah thats correct. Tabberwocky is the best add-on and option to work with Firefox tabs. I installed it with my browser and can say that it is really very effective. It some more useful features like:-

• Duplicate Tab, Protect Tab, Lock Tab (menu items and keyboard shortcuts)
• Tab Progress Bars
  
• Multiple-Row Tab Bar
  
• Open in new tabs from Bookmarks, History, URL Bar, and/or Search Bar
  
• Open Selected Links in New Tabs
  
• Retain tab history when opening links in new tabs
  
• Show/Hide New Tab button and Close Tab buttons
  
• Highlight unread tabs
  
• Set minimum/maximum tab width
  
• Close tabs by double-clicking on them
  
• Tab clicking options
• Open tabs to the right of current tab
  
• Open tabs from links to the right of current tabs (Firefox 3.6+)
  
• Switch to last selected tab or tab on the left when closing a tab
  
• Menu items for opening links in foreground/background tabs
  
• Open script-generated windows in tabs instead

[Sara.S]

hey, Thanks for the quick response, mates.. I think that is what i needed. Tabberwocky can work for me as expected, i think, as it has lots of cool features. Anyways, i really appreciate your effective response. Keep it up