The beta version of the Google toolbar for Firefox has come out with a new tab page. What is a tab page? It is different from the tabs you have on top of Firefox. If you have used Google’s Chrome browser, you will be familiar with it.

When you open a new tab in Firefox, you usually get a blank page. But if you have the beta toolbar, you “will instead see small thumbnails of your favorite sites (up to 9), as well as recently-closed and bookmarked pages based on your browser history”. You can even edit the thumbnails.

You also have the option of changing the tabbed interface to the default blank page through either your Toolbar or Firefox settings.