Fancy Numbered Tabs Extension

Are you one of those Firefox users that likes to use the CTRL (or ALT)+Number keyboard shortcut to quickly activate tabs in Firefox ? Pressing CTRL (or ALT) + a number between 1 and 9 activates the tab at that position in the Firefox tab bar. This is by far faster than using the mouse to click on the tab that you want to activate.

One problem when using the keyboard shortcut is that it is sometimes hard to tell the exact number of the tab that you need to activate it. The Fancy Numbered Tabs extension displays a number for every open tab in the tab bar at the position that the red X, which is used to close a tab, normally uses.

But don’t worry, that functionality is still available. As soon as you hover over a number the number changes to the red X making it possible to close the tab as usual.