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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Just installed Firefox. How to change the scroll bar? All the answers Google provides don't work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Quite a lot made it into in this release, damn...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Vertical Tabs! 😍 Fucking finally!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's an extension for that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I know. I'm using Sideberry myself for quite some time now. But native support would still have been nice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

why do you guys like vertical tabs so much? currently trying it out, trying to get over how jarring it is so far.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Uses my screen space more efficient and I can structure my tabs better in a tree hierarchy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have at most 5 tabs open at any time. I never even considered that someone would organize their tabs let alone in a tree hierarchy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I do this mostly for work and university stuff, were I often need a lot of resources (documentations, tutorials, papers, etc).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I usually make a bookmark when I need a tab later. My bookmarks are organized. I only keep a tab open when I immediately need to use it. Like one tab of the paper I'm reading, one tab Deezer music, one tab search engine, and 1-2 tabs of sites I haven't closed yet but I'm about to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Just tried out the new version and sadly you can't nest tabs. 🥲

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

If you mostly use your browser in a maximized format, then you'll have empty space to the left and right of most webpages. Vertical tabs make good use of that.

If you tile your browser window often or if you have relatively few tabs (per browser window), then it's not nearly as useful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But can they be collapsed to show icon only?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

this appears to be the default behaviour

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hardware video decoding is now enabled for AMD GPUs on Linux.

Very cool

On Linux, Firefox is now available on ARM64 (AArch64), with installation options via APT and tarballs. Flatpak support is coming soon.

Will be interesting to try an ARM Linux laptop in a few years...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i'm excited for riscv, not arm, but thats a long way out sadly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Indeed, though I think there is some work on FF on RISC-V (if not builds)?