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Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by screamingninja »

Sakos wrote: post #25
miroljub wrote: post #9

I don't want to piss on the OP effort, some people will find it useful. For me, I don't understand the problem. Why do so many people need a tab manager in say Firefox, but not in Word, Excel, Windows Explorer or Total Commander?

I think it's largely a solution for bad UI, both in the web and in the browser. I have a window open just with YouTube tabs of videos that interest me and that I intend to watch in the near future. As an OS-level window, it has weight and presence. Inside the window I have vertical and nested tabs. So I have videos grouped by topic or just by the rabbit hole I used. I can collapse them, move them around, etc. It's ta…

> I think it's largely a solution for bad UI, both in the web and in the browser.

Agreed, several of my friends hoard tabs instead of using the "bookmark" feature. I suppose it is because bookmarking is one more step and organizing bookmarks takes further effort.

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by wintermutestwin »

speakspokespok wrote: post #11
jaytemple wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there an authoritative way hiding the horizontal tab with SideBerry?

This works on the LTS version of Firefox but needs an update if you’re running the latest version. Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter to load it. In the search box above the list, type userprof and pause while the list is filtered. If you do not see anything on the list, ignore this step. Switch toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets preference from false to true. Type about:support in…

... and that ridiculous kluge is why the vast majority of users will never experience vertical tabs - which would be a better experience for the vast majority of users...

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by eviks »

Is this manager advanced enough to replicate Vivaldi's tab tiling and stacking functionality?

(also not sure why the screenshots devote 80% of space to non-addon functionality like page with some distracting chip images and colored tables)

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by akaij »

SanderSantema wrote: post #34

Given the required permissions I’d like to read the source code before using it, but that doesn’t seem to be available. Is this correct?

You can download the xpi file directly from the versions page (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-u...) and extract it:

  $ file grasshopper_urls-746.xpi 
  grasshopper_urls-746.xpi: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract, compression method=deflate

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by Sujeto »

eviks wrote: post #33

Is this manager advanced enough to replicate Vivaldi's tab tiling and stacking functionality? (also not sure why the screenshots devote 80% of space to non-addon functionality like page with some distracting chip images and colored tables)

>Is this manager advanced enough to replicate Vivaldi's tab tiling and stacking functionality?

No, but it can do a bunch of stuff, which you can try.

>also not sure why the screenshots devote 80% of space to non-addon functionality like page with some distracting chip images and colored tables

Was easier to take screenshots like this. But maybe I'll try cropping next time. I guess the idea was to show how it looks as a sidebar, or as a popup.

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by eviks »

miroljub wrote: post #9

I don't want to piss on the OP effort, some people will find it useful. For me, I don't understand the problem. Why do so many people need a tab manager in say Firefox, but not in Word, Excel, Windows Explorer or Total Commander?

What's so hard about understanding that easily accessible groups of documents is a useful concept in organizing your digital life?

And why do you think they don't? I'd love to have a consistently great tab management experience in all the apps that have tabs (and all the apps that don't). It's just they are more closed, so it's harder to do that with some extension

And it's a bigger issue for the browser since you'd usually have more pages opened there

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by cropcirclbureau »

SanderSantema wrote: post #34

Given the required permissions I’d like to read the source code before using it, but that doesn’t seem to be available. Is this correct?

It's available here: https://github.com/madprops/grasshopper. The link was in the left sidebar behind some tracking redirect.
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