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Mozilla is adding tab grouping, vertical tabs, profile management, and local AI features to Firefox (connect.mozilla.org)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The TreeStyleTab extension for Firefox has added vertical tabs for a decade

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but you have to have a custom user.js file or whatever to remove the tabs on top.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Ok, so do that once and you're done. :)

It should be an option in the UI though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I have been running vertical tabs for a while now and it's broken about 3 times, once every few months. Currently, I've had no min/maximise/close buttons for about a week because I can't be bothered to fix it. Far from "one and done".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It removes the close/maximize/minimize buttons though. Not ideal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is avoidable with the right CSS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure you're right lol I just don't know it and its more work than it needs to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That it is. Firefox updates have broken my CSS several times now, so I am quite happy for them to add side tab officially.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I remember back in the day (FF 4?) I had the window buttons, tabs, back/forward, URL bar, etc all on one row, which was pretty cool. So it was something like this, from left to right:

  1. Firefox menu - was Firefox, but now would be the hamberger menu
  2. back/forward buttons
  3. extension butons
  4. URL bar
  5. tabs

It worked pretty well. It would be nice to do that again.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The way tree style tabs worked after they broke it was never very good. Floorp is what to use if you wanted side tabs on Firefox.

That said I still went back to Vivaldi after trying to use Floorp because of stupid little ux issues like pinned tabs not being protected from closing, and broken session saving.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sidebery is a very good implementation of the vertical tab panel

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The issue is that because they broke the UI customization that allowed for it all the extensions are just a kludge to add a panel to the side without actually getting rid of the top tabs.