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Props to Download Squad, for introducing me to TreeStyle Tabs.  I’ve been rocking the widescreen for awhile now, and this is perfect for it!

It wasn’t as big of an issue on my (now secondary) 21″ Gateway widescreen, but when I picked up a 25.5″ Samsung, it was apparent I needed to find something to take up some space in Firefox.  I have since added a lot of addons, and it seems that not a week goes by that I don’t find another one that is useful.  But since I still try to be efficient with my space, I wound up using less room than I had before, although it was all still vertical space.

One of the great options of TreeStyle Tabs is you can pick which side of your screen it goes on.  With SocialBrowse already commanding the left side, the right side is the obvious choice for me.  Admittedly though, it is taking some getting used to running the mouse over to the right side of the screen, instead of the top.

A nifty feature is opening links from a page as sublinks.  As you can see in the picture, everything I opened from Google Reader is beneath it, with a little strip on the right side indicating that they are sublinks.  I think this will be very handy, as I almost always have a dozen or so tabs open that I bounce back and forth from.  You can also notice at the top and bottom of the list, that Shyftr and WordPress have some sublinks as well, but they are collapsed.  Another nice feature, keeping only the list I most recently focused on expanded.  This is an option in the settings though, so you can set it how you like it.

What will be the nicest capability is seeing all of my open tabs in once glance, instead of finding the drop down menu at the end of tab row.  Far too often, I ran out of space on top, and the new tabs were then hidden.  This will save me a click or two when looking for a new tab that I can’t see.

I’m still getting used to it, but I think TreeStyle Tabs is something you should give a hard look at, especially if you have a widescreen monitor.