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Multiple Tab Handler Changelog

What's new in Multiple Tab Handler 3.1.10

Nov 11, 2021
  • Update zh_CN locale by NightSharp. Thanks!

New in Multiple Tab Handler 3.1.9 (Oct 4, 2020)

  • Open optiosn page correctly by clicking on the permission notification.
  • Fix wrong behaviors of "All Configs" UI: apply imported configs to options UI immediately and treat decimal values as valid for some numeric options.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 3.1.8 (Aug 13, 2020)

  • Notify new features with a desktop notification instead of an annoying tab.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 3.1.6 (Aug 4, 2020)

  • Add an option to list tabs hidden by other addons.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 3.1.5 (Aug 3, 2020)

  • Better support for hidden tabs. (Fixed broken selection from dragging on tabs.)

New in Multiple Tab Handler 3.1.3 (Apr 28, 2020)

  • Recommend to use right click to show the menu instead of left click.
  • Respond to click on the bottom caption as instructed.
  • Show in-content confirmation dialog correctly on lately versions of Firefox.
  • Remove keyboard shorctut customization UI, because Firefox ESR68 has it.
  • Update zh_CN locale by NightSharp. Thanks!

New in Multiple Tab Handler 3.1.2 (Jan 25, 2020)

  • Don't start "long-press" selection of tabs in Tree Style Tab's sidebar with simple left click even if it take too much time.
  • Show options page after localized messages become ready.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 3.1.1 (Dec 28, 2019)

  • Suppress error on click at TST sidebar.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 3.0.10 (Aug 12, 2019)

  • Remove obsolete codes deprecated at Firefox 70.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 3.0.9 (Jul 10, 2019)

  • Clear "ready to select" state of tabs in Tree Style Tab's sidebar correctly when the multiselection state is cleared by other addons.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 3.0.8 (Jun 21, 2019)

  • Fix compatibility issue with TST 3.0.8 and later. Deselection with Ctrl-click works again.
  • Add ability to open the options page from a notification for a required permission.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 3.0.5 (Feb 19, 2019)

  • Shift-click on popup panel should select tabs. (regression on recent versions)
  • Follow to changes of the theme on Tree Style Tab 2.7.19.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 3.0.4 (Jan 14, 2019)

  • Multiselect collapsed tree of Tree Style Tabs more correctly.
  • Don't updated highlighted status of Firefox tabs while dragging on the panel. Firefox tabs are highlighted after the dragged range is determined.
  • Clear selection after multiselection is cleared by other addons correctly.
  • Use more pale color for multiselecting tabs on Tree Style Tab.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 3.0.3 (Jan 11, 2019)

  • Fix odd multiselection behavior on Ctrl/Shift-click on Tree Style Tab's collapsed tree

New in Multiple Tab Handler 3.0.2 (Jan 7, 2019)

  • Allow to autoscroll the popup panel while dragging.
  • The "Invert Selection" command now works on native context menus.
  • Show "Invert Selection" command in the context menu on the tab bar.
  • Add ability to control timeout to detect "long press" on the sidebar of Tree Style Tab.
  • Don't start multiselection of tabs by long press on already-multiselected tab, on the sidebar of Tree Style Tab.
  • Separated config checkboxes to activate drag selection on the panel and the sidebar of Tree Style Tab.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 3.0.1 (Dec 27, 2018)

  • Optimize/fix performance regression around changing of tab focus by Lej77. Thanks!

New in Multiple Tab Handler 2.2.5 (Dec 4, 2018)

  • Update visibility of context menu items more certainly.
  • Save removal of "copy to clipboard" formats correctly.
  • Don't show horizontal scrollbar for options.
  • Don't set global "highlighted" status for "to be closed" tabs, for better compatibility with other addons.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 2.2.2 (Oct 24, 2018)

  • Apply theme color to toolbar button icon only when it is intentionally activated with svg.context-properties.content.enabled = true.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 2.1.4 (Sep 5, 2018)

  • Allow to get permission without toolbar button, by Lej77. Thanks!
  • Keep selection after a context menu command is invoked, by default.
  • Don't show different type window to the list of "Move to Other Window".
  • Update context menu items correctly, even if "auto open after drag selection" behavior is disabled.
  • Allow to click sound button in Tree Style Tab sidebar without clearing selection.
  • Select collapsed descendants (Tree Style Tab) of the active tab also, when any other tab is selected by ctrl-click.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 2.0.13 (Jun 21, 2018)

  • Add ability to switch color scheme to Dark theme.
  • Make configuration categories collapsible.
  • Close the fake context menu immediately when any item is clicked.
  • Keyboard operations affects correctly for the fake context menu even if the cursor is on any separator.
  • Save cached external addons correctly.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.8.2017061501 (Sep 4, 2017)

  • Works on Nightly 56.0a1.
  • Drop support for Firefox 51 and older versions.
  • Allow to drop multiple local files to the tab bar, on Firefox 52 and later.
  • Fix German label for config.useEffectiveTLD.enabled (thanks to Ulf Rompe!)

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.8.2015113001 (Jan 14, 2016)

  • Add "Mute/Unmute Tabs" features for all/selected tabs.
  • Support Tab Utilities Fixed's "Move to Window" menu for selected tabs.
  • The feature "Bookmark selected tabs" and the property dialog of bookmark folders now work correctly.
  • ru locale is updated by Netanyahu. Thanks!

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.8.2015111101 (Jan 14, 2016)

  • "Invert Selection" works correctly when the selection menu is closed automatically.
  • ru locale is updated by Infocatcher. Thanks!

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.8.2015111001 (Jan 14, 2016)

  • Works on Firefox 40 and later.
  • Add "Select Similar Tabs" to the tab context menu and "Invert Selection" to the selection menu.
  • The feature "Bookmark selected tabs" and the property dialog of bookmark folders now work correctly.
  • Message from content area are correctly handled even if tabs' remoteness is dynamically changed.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.8.2015030601 (Mar 6, 2015)

  • Clicking operation on a closebox of a tab is now cancelable by releasing after dragout, like other generic buttons. (Selection of ready-to-close tabs is started after the mouse pointer lands on the second tab's closebox.)

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.8.2015022701 (Mar 6, 2015)

  • Works again on Firefox 36 and later.
  • Place duplicated tabs next to the source tabs.
  • Duplicate selected tabs by ctrl-drag-and-drop in same window correctly.
  • Duplicate ctrl-drag-and-dropped tabs from another window correctly.
  • Never show warning for closing multiple tabs if the number of closing tabs are less than the maximum number of restorable tabs.
  • Fix UI for extensions.multipletab.tabdrag.delay preference.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.8.2014102201 (Mar 6, 2015)

  • Drop support for Firefox 30 and older versions.
  • Works correctly on the multi-process mode (E10S).
  • Add an option to enable/disable the feature: "Close tabs if closeboxes in tabs are selected by dragging."
  • Toggle locked state of selected tabs correctly.
  • Works on Nightly 33.0a1 with the preference dom.compartment_per_addon=true.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.7.2014050101 (Mar 6, 2015)

  • Fix too small feedback square for ready-to-close tabs with Australis on Linux.
  • Better compatibility with Tab Mix Plus. (regression)
  • Works on Firefox 31.0a1.
  • Drop support for Firefox 23 and olders.
  • Improved: Pending tabs are not loaded if it is not needed when you choose "copy URI of tabs" menu item.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.7.2013100801 (Mar 6, 2015)

  • Support "Close Tabs to Right" feature on Firefox 24 and later. Multiple Tab Handler's own feature is disabled if it is provided by Firefox itself.
  • Works on Firefox 25 and later.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.7.2013052901 (Mar 6, 2015)

  • Improved: Show unnamed tab groups in the "Move to Group" popup.
  • Improved: Add support of rich text format for the "copy to clipboard" feature. Now "%RT%" keyboard means "copy the result as a rich text HTML to the clipboard".
  • Improved: Make help topics readable, about placeholders for "Copy URIs of Tabs"
  • Modified: Update codes around session store API.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.7.2013040601 (Mar 6, 2015)

  • Fixed: Move all selected tabs to a newly opened window correctly on Firefox 19 and later.
  • Update "ru" locale (by Infocatcher)
  • Update "zh-TW" locale (by HJL)
  • Modified: "jar" archive is no longer included.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.7.2012020901 (Feb 9, 2012)

  • Updated for Nightly 13.0a1
  • Drop support for Firefox 3.6
  • Fixed: Some menu items in the context menu for selected tabs couldn't be hidden by user preferences
  • Fixed: We couldn't create bookmarks from selected tabs on lately Nightly

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.6.2011120101 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Improved: Dragging on closeboxes in tabs can be started with delay. (The delay can be customized via the secret preference "extensions.multipletab.tabdrag.close.delay". Default value is "0".)
  • Improved: Now, after Multiple Tab Handler or Tab Mix Plus is uninstalled or disabled, MTH restores previous preferences about Ctrl/Shift-Click on tabs for each addon.
  • Fixed: Tab selection is cleared (just like file selection) when one of selected tabs is clicked.
  • Fixed: Closeboxes in tabs were wrongly sensitive on outside 1px.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.6.2011092901 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Note: This version (and older versions) is incompatible to Firefox 8 or later due to the bug 455694 and 674925.
  • Improved: Now you can cancel dragging operation (to select tabs) by the ESC key.
  • Improved: Selection behavior becomes similar to the one for range selection of text and so on. Old versions simply toggled the selected state by hovering on each tab.
  • Fixed: "Close Left (Above) Tabs" don't close pinned tabs.
  • Fixed: "Close Left (Above) Tabs" and "Close Right (Below) Tabs" were wrongly disabled when there are some tabs in other groups of Panorama.
  • ru-RU locale is updated by Netanyahu.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.6.2011082901 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Note: This version (and older versions) is incompatible to Firefox 8 or later due to the bug 455694 and 674925.
  • Improved: Implicitly selection behavior for the current tab can be customizable.
  • Improved: Warning for closing multiple tabs can be costomized by the new pref "extensions.multipletab.warnOnCloseMultipleTabs". (-1=use "browser.tabs.warnOnClose", 0=no warning, 1=show warning)
  • Improved: New place holders for meta info: %AUTHOR%, %AUTHOR_HTMLIFIED%, �SCRIPTION%, �SCRIPTION_HTMLIFIED%, %KEYWORDS%, and %KEYWORDS_HTMLIFIED%.
  • Fixed: Failed to drag single tab if a tab is selected.
  • Fixed: Some tabs were not selected by quick select. (Thanks titoBouzout!)
  • Fixed: Context menu on the content are was unexpectedly blocked.
  • Modified: Menu labels in the selection menu are shorten. (ja-JP locale)
  • ru-RU locale is updated by Netanyahu.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.6.2011051101 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Improved: Multiple Tab Handler can completely ignore Ctrl(Command)-Click on tabs by the preference.
  • Fixed: "Close Other Tabs" should not close pinned tabs.
  • Fixed: Ctrl(Command)-Click on the current tab didn't select the tab itself.
  • Fixed: On Firefox 4, dropped tabs onto toolbar items in the tab bar were unexpectedly ignored.
  • Fixed: Works with Locationbar2.
  • Fixed: When Personal Titlebar is installed, initializing process was wrongly called twice.
  • Fixed: Compatibility issue about TabDNDObserver of Tab Mix Plus gone.
  • Updated: French locale is available, translated by Jean-Philippe Fleury.
  • Updated: zh-CN locale is updated by hzhbest.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.6.2011020301 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Fixed: Tabs can't be dragged if there is Tab Mix Plus.
  • Improved: Works with Personal Titlebar.
  • Improved: Works with DragNDrop Toolbars.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.6.2011011701 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Improved: For Minefield, "Pin as App Tab", "Unpin Tab" and "Move to Group" are available for selected tabs.
  • Fixed: On Minefield, tab selection is cleared when the Panorama is activated.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.6.2011011102 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Modified: API changing. You can get values via getData() from events fired with old names (without "nsDOM" prefix).

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.6.2010121701 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Improved: Tabs under different user's home (pages under different /~username/ ) are handled as "different website". (To disable this new feature, set extensions.multipletab.checkUserHome=false )
  • Modified: Use "multiselected" instaead of "multipletab-selected". (For compatibility, old attribute is still available.)
  • Fixed: Tabs can't be dragged if there is Tab Mix Plus.
  • Fixed: Some entries in the ru-RU locale are reverted to the previous version.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.6.2010120202 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Fixed: When multiple tabs are dropped into a bookmarks tree, they are bookmarked correctly.
  • Improved: On Minefield, to-be-restored tabs can be bookmarked by drag and drop.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.5.2010111401 (Dec 2, 2011)

  • Following up changes about tabs on Minefield.
  • Fixed: On Minefield, sessions are restored correctly.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.4.2009073101 (Jul 31, 2009)

  • Improved: Tree structure of Tree Style Tab is saved to the bookmarks.
  • Fixed: "Bookmark selected tabs" and "Bookmark all tabs" work correctly even if Tab Mix Plus is installed.
  • hu-HU locale is updated

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.4.2009072001 (Jul 20, 2009)

  • Improved: Formats of copied texts becomes customizable. (compatible to Copy URL+)
  • Improved: "Lock Tab", "Protect Tab" and "Freeze Tab" are available for selected tabs, when Tab Mix Plus is installed.
  • Fixed: Dragging on tabs works correctly for multi-row tab bar of Tab Mix Plus.
  • Fixed: Vertical autoscroll is available for multi-row tab bar of Tab Mix Plus.
  • Fixed: For Firefox 3.5, all-tabs-dragging is ignored correctly.
  • zh-CN locale is available.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.3.2009071601 (Jul 16, 2009)

  • Improved: "Lock Tab", "Protect Tab" and "Freeze Tab" are available for selected tabs, when Tab Mix Plus is installed.
  • Fixed: Dragging on tabs works correctly for multi-row tab bar of Tab Mix Plus.
  • Fixed: Vertical autoscroll is available for multi-row tab bar of Tab Mix Plus.
  • Fixed: For Firefox 3.5, all-tabs-dragging is ignored correctly.
  • zh-CN locale is available

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.3.2009062301 (Jun 23, 2009)

  • Fixed: The number of closed tabs is shown correctly.
  • Improved: The order to close selected tabs becomes customizable.
  • Improved: Auto-select behavior for tab duplication and moving tab between windows becomes customizable.
  • Updated: it-IT locale update

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.3.2009051501 (May 15, 2009)

  • hu-HU locale is updated

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.3.2009051101 Experimental (May 11, 2009)

  • Improved: Linefeed characters of copied texts to the clipboard are suitable for each platform. (CR+LF for Windows, LF for Linux and Mac OS X)
  • Fixed: Duplication of tabs after another duplication work correctly
  • zh-TW locale is updated by Tsprajna

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.3.2009043002 (May 5, 2009)

  • Improved: "Close Other Tabs" is available for selected tabs. It will close unselected tabs and keep selected tabs open.
  • Improved: "Similar tabs" detection is now based on Effective TLD list of Firefox 3.
  • Improved: Some special characters in URIs or page titles are replaced to their entity references, for "HTML style" copying.
  • Fixed: Wrongly selection for all of tabs (not only duplicated one) after tabs duplicating disappeared.
  • Fixed: With Split Browser, the window isn't closed even if the last tab in the main pane is moved to another window from an window which have some panes.
  • Works on Minefield.
  • zh-TW locale is available.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.3.2009040901 (Apr 9, 2009)

  • Improved: Auto-scroll for tab draggings is available.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.3.2009021201 (Mar 13, 2009)

  • Modified: Some internal operations are optimized.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.3.2008120401 (Dec 6, 2008)

  • Improved: "Print Selected Tabs" is available if Print All Tabs ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/5142 ) is installed.
  • Improved: You can start to select tabs from spaces of indented tabs if Tree Style Tab ( http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_treestyletab.html.en ) is installed.
  • Updated: Hungarian locale is updated by Mikes Kaszmán István.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.3.2008120201 (Dec 3, 2008)

  • Improved: "Save selected tabs" feature is available.
  • Fixed: The dragged tab itself is correctly selected while mousedown.
  • Improved: Dragging selected tabs and dropping them out of the window tears off them as a new window, on Minefield 3.1b3pre.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.3.2008111401 (Nov 15, 2008)

  • Modified: Useless checkboxes are automatically disabled by selected mode of tab dragging action.
  • Updated: Italian locale is updated by Godai71.
  • Updated: Spanish locale is updated by tito.
  • Updated: Hungarian locale is updated by Mikes Kaszmán István.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.3.2008101801 (Oct 20, 2008)

  • Improved: On Minefield 3.1b2pre, multiple tabs are moved from an window to another by drag and drop, without reloading.
  • Improved: On Minefield 3.1b2pre, selected tabs moves to split new window without reloading.
  • Improved: When you drag and drop multiple tabs from an window to another, they are duplicated only if "Ctrl" key (on Mac OS X, "Command" key) is pressed. Otherwise tabs are just moved.
  • Improved: Auto-opening of the popup menu after selecting tabs by dragging can be disabled.
  • Fixed: Groupboxes for menu item checkboxes are expanded in the configuration dialog.
  • Fixed: Some context menu items are hidden by settings correctly.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.2.2008101501 (Oct 16, 2008)

  • Fixed: Collapsed tabs are correctly closed with Tree Style Tab ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/5890 ).
  • Fixed: Works with Menu Edit ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/710 ). Menu items of tab context menu are not duplicated anymore.
  • Fixed: Selected tabs are correctly bookmarked even if Tab Mix Plus is installed.
  • Fixed: "Close Left Tabs" and "Close Right Tabs" are disabled correctly if there is no left/right tabs.
  • Fixed: Context menu items for multiple tabs are correctly hidden for single tab.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.2.2008050601 (Aug 14, 2008)

  • Italian locale is updated.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.2.2007111801 (Nov 28, 2007)

  • Improved: With Tree Style Tab, collapsed children tabs are selected if the parent tab is selected.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.2.2007111301 (Nov 14, 2007)

  • Fixed: Closing multiple tabs by dragging closeboxes works correctly even if Tab Mix Plus is available.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.2.2007110601 (Nov 7, 2007)

  • Improved: If the drag action is canceled before start dragging, tab selection is cleared and the popup menu doesn't appear.
  • Fixed: Delay is available for tab switching by dragging.
  • Modified: A delay is used for tab selecting or switching by default.

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.2.2007110501 (Nov 5, 2007)

  • Improved: Format of copied text from tabs can be chosen from menu.
  • Improved: Delay is avialable for tab dragging. You can select/switch tabs by dragging after a delay.
  • Added: Italian locale is available. (made by Godai71.Extenzilla)

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.1.2007103101 (Oct 31, 2007)

  • Fixed: Works with ImgLikeOpera and Session Fix correctly.
  • Modified: Selected tabs will be highlighted with their border if ColorfulTabs (

New in Multiple Tab Handler 0.1.2007102501 (Oct 30, 2007)

  • Improved: "Bookmark Selected Tabs" works on Minefield.