In XP with an older Fx version I could see (24) Firefox in the Windows taskbar at the bottom of the screen. Now with current Fx and Windows 7 I only see a globe. Can I get a visible count? (Apologies if this is a Windows question; hard to know.) I prefer separate windows to stacking up tabs (so easier to skip around with alt-tab). I see the "Tab counter" add-on, but it seems to count tabs, not windows. /rant on/ Any current or future designers: get off this retarded notion of replacing useful screen info with icons. Naturally it began with Microsoft when their Deproductivity Department came up with the still 100% useless ribbon, replacing visible scrollable choices in menus. "(24) Firefox" has become "globe icon." You should see the Acronis backup product: there's tons of screen real estate, but just big symbols, and not one G.D. menu whatsoever. This has become a tsunami. It makes for flashy sexy minimalist design so sounds good in I.T. presentation, economizing interfaces into icons because of handheld devices and their small screens, "because that's the way the world is going." However this is being done to the deproductive detriment of desktop users. Interface designers seem all giddy at the notion of a unified interface. However remember that the world is not being run by the limited, less efficient handheld users; the world goes around due to the office workers who spend 8 hours a day on a desktop. Home users too. Handhelds are what you use when you're not at a desktop; but when you have the choice, you go desktop to utilize its higher productivity - if that of course is your aim. Why compromise the primary interface (desktop), in order to homogenize it with the currently sexy "app" fascination? So cut out the $%^&ing iconization of interfaces! Except for handheld apps only! /rant off/