If your toolbars in Firefox are a little too busy, you might want to cut down on the clutter. One way of doing that would be to unify your back button and your forward button. If you find yourself going back and forth in a tab, then the Unified Back and Forward Button extension is for you.

Here is how the developer of the Firefox extension describes how it works.

Unified Back-/Forward Button provides a double-button with just one drop-down menu for navigating back and forward.

Like this, you can see all the history of one tab and quickly navigate back and forward through it. If there are too many entries, you’ll additionally get Fast-Rewind/Fast-Forward entries to skip most probably less important pages.

This extension should work with most of the themes that are out in the wild today, but you might run into problems with some themes. Other than that, this is a nice way of getting around in your browser’s history.

This Firefox extension is for versions 1.5 and up of the browser. If you want to download it and try it out for yourself, you can do so at the Mozilla Update Web site.

[tags]firefox,extensions,navigation,buttons[/tags]