[ubuntu] Firefox asterisk in tab

[fuzzybear3965]

What does an asterisk in a tab mean? I have a firefox tab with (*) preceding the title of the tab. It has happened on multiple tabs and it is beginning to arouse my curiosity. Anyone??

[CA_Warren]

This has bugged me for a while, too, so I hunted it down (doesn't help when developing websites):

This means that you've 'selected' the tab using the Tab Mix Plus extension. More details here, but basically if you've selected multiple tabs to merge, the 'selected' tabs are marked by that asterisk.

You can deselect them the same way you selected them, which is by (accidentally?) holding down CTRL and left-clicking the tabs in question.


Hope that helps.

[fuzzybear3965]

It's people like you who keep the open source world spinning

[TanukiSan]

Thanks for the info! This has been bugging me for a while and found the answer in this old thread via Google in under a minute. So I registered to say thank you.