If you look through features list of the latest Firefox 4 Beta you will definitely notice that Mozilla reworked tabs in Firefox dramatically. First of all it concerns new tabs location (now they are shown above address bar just like in Google Chrome). But the latest announced and long-awaited feature is Firefox Panorama (formerly known as Tabs Candy) — this is a new approach for tab management in Firefox for organizing tabs when browsing websites.

In a few words it makes it possible to open multiple organized groups of tabs to prevent tabs chaos when you open more and more websites. Anyways it’s better to see it in action:

As before you can try the latest Firefox 4 Beta in your Ubuntu by downloading and unpacking firefox-4.0b4.tar.bz2 into, say, /usr/lib/firefox-4-testing directory (follow the post named “Try Firefox 4 in Ubuntu” to see more details on this approach).

Instantbird is one more multi-platform instant messenger for your Ubuntu but powered and supported by Mozilla. This IM client is based on Firefox and Pidgin code so it makes it possible to chat using multiple protocols including MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Jabber, GTalk and others, open Firefox-like tabs while chatting with friends and install various extensions. After three years (!!!) of development Instantbird is now available as latest 0.2 version. See below how to install it in Ubuntu.

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From unofficial Google news feed it became clear that Google is going to launch multiple accounts sing-in feature. It should make it possible to access different Google applications using different usernames. Currently I should open several browsers or Google Chrome incognito windows to open different Gmail mailboxes at the same time (without logging off).

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