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tablang

TabLang Firefox extension allows you to keep separate keyboard layout for each tab and automatically changes system input locale when switching between tabs or windows — the feature Firefox lacks in comparison with Internet Explorer.

TabLang 0.4.1

Features

• Changing keyboard layout when switching between tabs/windows (including sidebars)
• Configurable default keyboard layout for new tabs/windows
• Opening link in new tab/window preserves keyboard layout
• Preserving independent keyboard layout for address bar globally or on pre-tab basis
• Preserving independent keyboard layout for web search bar and page find bar
• Session restore support
• Undo close tab/window, tab drag-and-drop and tear-off support
• Panorama support

To access TabLang Options dialog press Alt key if menu is not visible, select Tools (Edit on Linux) > Add-ons > Extensions > Options in TabLang section

Requirements

• Firefox 4.0 or later (older version for Firefox 2.0—3.6 is still available)
• Windows 2000 or any modern Linux distribution

What's new in latest version

Version 0.4.1

• Fixed: finally solved bug in Linux 64bit when unable to load language names
• Fixed: using new language preferences since current language representation is incompatible with pre-0.4 prefs. All users have to reset their language preferences in TabLang Options
• Fixed: addons.mozilla.org rules compliance

Version 0.4.0

• Added: support for Firefox 4 and later
• Added: support for Linux 64bit
• Added: support for Windows 64bit Firefox nightly builds
• Removed: supprot for Firefox 2.0—3.6 (older version is still available)
• Language switching component rewritten in jsctypes: it doesn't need rebuild for every new Firefox version and extension now contains no binary components
• Fixed: bug on Linux when TabLang doesn't switch keyboard layout when unable to load language names
• Fixed: options dialog on Linux always shows all 4 groups as workaround if unable to load language names

Version History

Feedback

Any comments are welcome. You can post your comments and feature requests to TabLang MozillaZine Forum Thread. Also you can post your opinion about TabLang to TabLang AMO Page. Please, don't use it for bug reports — and if you do, please post a duplicate to the forum so I can contact you if details will be needed. You can also post bugs directly to Bugzilla. Anyway (especially if you use TabLang) please post anywhere what you think about it. Thank you.