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Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by eviks »

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…

How does the OS help you there? Does it have "tactile" organization accessible to you without loosing focus by switching to another app?

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by Sujeto »

cropcirclbureau wrote: post #39
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.

>behind some tracking redirect

Put there by mozilla btw

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by Sujeto »

cropcirclbureau wrote: post #40

Is there anything that OP can say to sell this to someone heavily invested in Sideberry (an excellent piece of software imo)?

Grasshoppers are cool. And a platform has been created to add more features if they make sense. It already can do a bunch of stuff, I advice you to give it a try.

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by qwerty456127 »

By the way, does anyone happen to know how to overcome the sidebar width limit in the current Firefox versions? I want the tab titles to be less truncated but Firefox won't let me expand the sidebar more than 432 px in width.

An alternative (maybe even better) idea which came into my mind is make item title display multi-line (word-wrap). Is there a Grasshopper configuration option for this? I already enabled URL display so it already is two-line effectively but I feel like probably making both parts (the title and the URL) two-line each.

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by Sujeto »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #44

Can it be configured to mimic native look&feel or at least use a light theme?

Yes the theme is very customizable, check the Settings. There's also commands you can use if you double tap Ctrl twice. You can open the command palette and select Light Theme.

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by jagged-chisel »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #45

By the way, does anyone happen to know how to overcome the sidebar width limit in the current Firefox versions? I want the tab titles to be less truncated but Firefox won't let me expand the sidebar more than 432 px in width. An alternative (maybe even better) idea which came into my mind is make item title display multi-line (word-wrap). Is there a Grasshopper configuration option for this? I already enabled URL dis…

That sounds suspiciously like a number placed in a style sheet. Have you checked in the directory for your Firefox profile?

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by qwerty456127 »

jagged-chisel wrote: post #47
qwerty456127 wrote: post #45

By the way, does anyone happen to know how to overcome the sidebar width limit in the current Firefox versions? I want the tab titles to be less truncated but Firefox won't let me expand the sidebar more than 432 px in width. An alternative (maybe even better) idea which came into my mind is make item title display multi-line (word-wrap). Is there a Grasshopper configuration option for this? I already enabled URL dis…

That sounds suspiciously like a number placed in a style sheet. Have you checked in the directory for your Firefox profile?

I already forgot the details, but I tried some solutions like this I could google up. Yes, I remember changing some numbers in some files in the profiles. Nothing worked. Apparently these were only meant to work with older versions.

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by Sujeto »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #48

Could you please also add a button to sort the tabs by domain? I don't want hierarchical grouping like some competing extensions offer (to me such UX feels like additional complexity), only sorting.

Already added to my notes. I'll likely implement it. Make it pin+normal tab aware even, like only sort normal, pins, or both.
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