Still no tabs on the left.
https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center
And works like a charm
Firefox 50.0
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Re: Firefox 50.0
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
I imagine he actually meant that Firefox/Chrome/etc are prioritizing a different demographic of users now than they used to. Both are becoming more of an OS in which you run web "apps" rather than just a browser to display and read webpages. Web apps need a consistent base set of features that may not exist on all OS platforms. By providing it internally they signal who and what the browsers are designed for. Other p…
Qutebrowser is also worth checking out. I haven't really given it a full blown test drive yet, but it's certainly less bloated than Firefox and Chrome, and has Vim-like keybindings.
I've vim keybindings on my Firefox through a plug-in... I almost forget I have a mouse
Re: Firefox 50.0
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is in the the bloat category: Added a built-in Emoji set for operating systems without native Emoji fonts (Windows 8.0 and lower and Linux)
Do you think that's a useless feature though? Seeing squares all over the internet isn't exactly a good experience, finding the right font sets to fix your emoji problem can be tricky on Linux too EDIT: just got the update and it a) fixed some emojis I somehow didn't have, namely "thinking face", which is of course critically important and b) made the rest look a lot livelier.
I'll take squares over emojis any day.
Re: Firefox 50.0
#154Re: Firefox 50.0
#155"Set a preference to have Ctrl+Tab cycle through tabs in recently used order " Finally something that is an actually improved UI feature! Not some "removed status bar and instead hover its info over text you want to read sometimes" or "moved refresh button to different place than before just to annoy you" or similar thing :)
I have this feature in sublime text & Atom and absolutely hate it. I feel like ctrl + tab has to move to next tab & ctrl + shift + tab should move to previous tab (cycle if it reaches the end). I feel like that's more predictable behaviour.
Ctrl + PgUp , Ctrl + PgDn
Re: Firefox 50.0
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, Firefox has it natively since 48. Just enter the title in the URL bar, and it'll suggest going to that tab.
Firefox has had it native since firefox 4. See this article: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search#Location_Bar_s... You can enter "% string" into the location bar, and it will suggest switches to open tabs which contain that string either in their title or URL. I've been using this little-known location bar feature for a long long time.
Hm, then 48 just changed the way it works, because I've never seen it before that one.
Re: Firefox 50.0
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have this feature in sublime text & Atom and absolutely hate it. I feel like ctrl + tab has to move to next tab & ctrl + shift + tab should move to previous tab (cycle if it reaches the end). I feel like that's more predictable behaviour.
The problem with this feature is that it depends on hidden UI state. With the "last used" behavior there's no way at a glance to know which tab will be activated when pressing ctrl-tab, so you either have to maintain the state in your head, or guess-and-check how many times to hit the key combo. If you only have a few tabs open, it can be useful in conjunction with Ctrl-[1-9], but I am also still strongly in the next…
Pressing Ctrl-Tab once without letting go of Ctrl shows you a graphical overlay of most recently used tabs. If you don't like what you see, just add one Shift-Tab to your already pressed Ctrl.
Re: Firefox 50.0
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have this feature in sublime text & Atom and absolutely hate it. I feel like ctrl + tab has to move to next tab & ctrl + shift + tab should move to previous tab (cycle if it reaches the end). I feel like that's more predictable behaviour.
I don't know about Firefox or Atom, but in Chromium you can achieve that via Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn.
Every non-macOS browser I've used supports those shortcuts. They're old enough to be universal among tabbed browsers.
Re: Firefox 50.0
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might want to check out Test Pilot and the Tab Center addon : https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center Unfortunately it is very slow compared to Tree Style Tabs if you have a considerable amount of tabs open (even using extensions like auto-unload, it is very very slow). Hope it gets fixed because I would _love_ a built-in vertical tab feature.
I have hundreds of tabs open, and use Tab Center, and I haven't experienced it being slow. However, past a number of tabs (enough to fill the "tab bar" vertically), it doesn't show thumbnails, maybe that's the difference?
On my machine (Intel Celeron, 8g RAM) it's noticeably slower than TST even with only 50 or so tabs
Re: Firefox 50.0
#160Still relatively slow startup, even on my quite powerful computer (i7, SSD, 8GB RAM, the second start, everything already cached in RAM, no add-ons or extensions but the defaults, no sessions restored, open to empty tab) I have at least a whole second during which I don't see that the program is starting. At least visibly better than the 49.
Firefox's reproducible automated testing begs to differ https://arewefastyet.com/
None of the tests there are startup time.