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2025/02/16

3RVX (FREE) – Beautiful Volume Overlay on Windows 11

 I haven’t found a way to remove or hide system volume overlay but it’s located at the bottom of the screen so it’s kind of hard to seen object.


3RVX can be placed the way you want so I can enjoy the beauty of it.

I will try to get the solution to remove system volume overlay.

 

The test steps – 3RVX 2.9.2

On: Windows 11 Home

Install: https://3rvx.com/

 

1. Go to the link above to download it.


At the bottom of the page.

You can open a GitHub link to see license.


BSD-2-Clause



2. Open the downloaded file, and follow the on-screen instruction to install the app.



Remember or create a shortcut of installation path because the settings file is there.


After it’s done installation, I went to the path below to setting up the app.


Open the file named ‘Settings’

At tab ‘General’, choose the skin.


If you choose the new skin but the ‘Apply’ button is greyed out, click ‘OK’, the ‘settings’ window will be closed, then open the ‘Settings’ file again. Click ‘Apply’, go back to target folder and open file ‘3RVX’.


I pressed the volume control on my keyboard laptop to change volume level.

Here are the skins


Don’t forget to click button ‘Apply’ after the skin is selected.





The skin will show when you changed volume at system tray icon.



You can set hotkeys to change volume in tab ‘Hotkeys’


The amount and unit can be set.


Click the system tray icon of 3RVX to access menus.


Looking at the beautiful object can help you reduce stress.


The test steps – 3RVX 2.9.2

On: Windows 11 Home

Install: https://3rvx.com/

 

Tip Tab (FREE) – Browse Tabs with Thumbnails in One Page (2025)

This add-on will show you thumbnails of all tabs in one page. You can click to go to that page, manage tab right in this page 

 


In the past, there were a lot of this kind of add-on but today it’s a rare item.

 

The test steps – Tip Tab 2.21

On: Windows 11 Home

Install: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tip-tab/

 

1. Go to the link above and click a button ‘Add to Firefox’.

The message box shows, click ‘Add’.


Click a piece of jigsaw puzzle icon at toolbar, then click a gear icon of this add-on and click ‘Pin to Toolbar’.


The icon of this add-on will show at toolbar.


2. Click ‘Tip Tab’ icon.


New window will be opened, and shows thumbnails of all open tabs.


In the picture above, in the red area of my drawing, you can change size of thumbnail to small, medium or large.

You can click at target thumbnail to go to a tab, you can close tabs and manage other things right in this page.


Click a button in the picture above, to toggle between text or image.


In the picture above, click ‘Tabs by Window’, if you want to separate tabs with name of window.


In the picture above, there are two windows.


At the corner of each window, there are menus to manage tabs.


You can search tab by its title.


Hover a mouse over title, the pointer is changed to 4-way arrow, drag that tab to reorder.



You can drag it to the new window (in Tip Tab section)


And it will affect to the real Firefox’s window.

I’m sure that there are add-ons for searching tabs, and this add-on will give me more way to search tab. If I remember images or color of target tab, this add-on can help me

 

The test steps – Tip Tab 2.21

On: Windows 11 Home

Install: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tip-tab/

 

 



2025/02/09

Firefox Add-On (FREE) - Unvisited tabs indicator – Grey Out Icon of Unvisited Tabs in 2025

In the past, there was this kind of add-on, I had used. When Firefox is changed its engine or something, a lot of good add-ons don’t work.

When I see interesting links in a page, I open them using ‘Open in the background tab’, then go to read all of them after that or I skip to read other tabs. The problem is at the end, I can not discriminate unvisited ones from others.

Finally, in 2025 I’ve found this one.

 

The test steps – Unvisited tabs indicator 1

On: Windows 11 Home

Install: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unvisited-tabs-indicator/

 

1. Go to the link above, then install it.


There is a dialog box asking you, click ‘Add’.


2. I used the default settings without changing anything.


In the picture above, the icon of background tab was greyed out.

Note that I opened the same link.

From now on, left tab is the background tab, right tab is foreground tab.


You can see in the picture above, the color of icon of background tab depends on the color of icon of foreground tab.





3. I saw the color palette in the screenshot on add-on page.


How could I open it and change color of the icon?

Without intention, I knew how to do it.


In the picture above, click the icon at toolbar, then click a name of the add-on.


Picture above is the default settings.


I only changed brightness (see picture above)


The result is in the picture above, the icon is black with a white circle.


If you open a lot of tabs for something, you have to consider ability to separate unvisited tabs from others.

 

The test steps – Unvisited tabs indicator 1

On: Windows 11 Home

Install: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unvisited-tabs-indicator/