Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Firefox 4: Stop tabs from appearing as separate Win7 Aero peek previews

I like the Aero peek previews, but when programs abuse them it becomes really difficult to see what you're doing.

I really like Firefox 4 so far. It's fast, looks nice and it's all about the little things that make it better. Except when I hovered over the task item and saw ...

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Oh the horror!

Now you're probably thinking... what's the big deal, right? Well each browser window will add more previews, and with my insane super-nerd 5x browser with 20x tabs in each browsing habits, that'll equate to a lot of previews.

Luckily, there's a nice little option to disable it (unlike Chromium).

Click on the Firefox button in the top left corner and select "Options".

Select "Show tab previews in the Windows taskbar".

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That's it, you're done!

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Now you're normal again.

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