Found this gem courtesy of TechCrunch today. I immediately thought of Steve Dembo when I read this. About a week or so ago we were chatting via IM about something and he mentioned Firefox crashed out on him and he lost all his tabs, even the “recently closed tabs” on the History Menu was not able to help him. Now comes Thumbstrips, a firefox extension that records the pages you go to as thumbnails so you can peruse your recently closed tabs and get back to where you once were in cases of overclickulation (def: the act of clicking too fast and closing down a much needed window, usually resulting in some sort of utterance of obscenities that follow {adj}).

Practical for people like me that like to keep 15+ tabs open at a time to help me organize web pages/links, etc for blogging purposes. Numerous instances I’ve clicked on the “Do Not Restore Last Session” button rather than “Restore Session” and lose all my tabs. For you security ‘phreaks, the mozilla description page says it does not collect data. I’ll take their word for it of course and keep an eye on my spybot S&D to see if it does.

Here’s a screen shot of my desktop. The bottom portion of the screen shows the thumbnails of the pages visited and it’s a simple mouse scroll to get to the earlier viewed pages, and vice-versa. At this point I see no classroom application of this extension, other than to save students from the heartache of remembering where the information they searched at previously was located. Which could actually be a good thing, and a time saver in a classroom.

Seeking the Wisdom of the Ages…

Tom.

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