Well I hope there is an extension to get those options back as I used them regularly to to "reset" after I've solved a problem or moved on to a new ticket and see I've got some 15 tabs open for research that I no longer need. Really they are removing this and leaving in "Bookmark all tabs"? Are you kidding me, what a stupid thing to leave in if you are so concerned about context menu space...
I use "bookmark all tabs" quite a bit. If I've got 15 tabs open for research that I want to read later...
Hmm, interesting way of using it. I've used extensions in the past to save off a group of tabs but I wouldn't want them in my bookmarks as I view them as temporary.
may be, or may be not. However, does it really matter how long the browser takes to start when you don't ever really close the browser (but only the tabs)?
As someone that likes the stated Mozilla mission and always wished them the best, I unfortunately have to agree with /BrailleHunting about Firefox performance on Mac OS. Not only does FF take a while to start up but when it is loading a mildly heavy page or even after updating, it can freeze up for several (as in 10-20) seconds.
Damn. I tried switching back to Firefox with the assumption that these issues were fixed. After using it for the past few days, it really 'felt' dog-slow, but I assumed it was just prejudice on my end :-/.
Do non-power users even right-click on tabs? Literally what is the issue with having the option if I right-click? Fucking stupid to take it out, it's just another nudge back towards Firefox...
Yeah, well, I gave it a shot with some ideological reasons to boot and based on comments here and my own experiences I'll probably move back to Chrome soon. Fourth time this happened. I'm starting to wonder if either there's something wrong with Mozilla as a company, or if they just can't compete with the money Google is throwing at this. Either option is depressing, even if just because I love Tree Style Tabs.
As someone that likes the stated Mozilla mission and always wished them the best, I unfortunately have to agree with /BrailleHunting about Firefox performance on Mac OS. Not only does FF take a while to start up but when it is loading a mildly heavy page or even after updating, it can freeze up for several (as in 10-20) seconds.
Damn. I tried switching back to Firefox with the assumption that these issues were fixed. After using it for the past few days, it really 'felt' dog-slow, but I assumed it was just prejudice on my end :-/.
Huh. Doesn't happen to me. I'd suggest using about:memory to see if you have a leaky tab. In my case, it used to be that my FB and Twitter tabs both leaked a lot. I stopped leaving Twitter open and FB (or Firefox) seems to have fixed their problem.
> the backspace key as "back" navigation That was a ridiculous usability nightmare and was only popular due to muscle memory from IE doing it long ago (it was a terrible decision back then, too). Good riddance to it, may no one ever again unfocus a form field by accident and wipe out an entire form with a single keypress.
Good riddance indeed! A big thank you from me and my blood pressure to the developers who finally pushed through the removal of that godforsaken nightmare of a human interface feature :)
Agreed, and although I get that patches breaking muscle memory are annoying, the potential downsides to that are so disastrous that the arguments around it puzzle me quite a bit to this day.
In fact, the whole conversation surrounding this issue made me see for that, although hyperbolic, XKCD 1172 [1] actually isn't that contrived...
That can be easily done by dragging the tab into another window and closing the window with the other tabs.
Yes. Easily. Very convenient having three context switches. First you drag out the tab, it maximizes in its own window, you minimize that window, you go back to the other window, close it, then find the window you just created. Much better than two mouse clicks, I'm sure.
Pale Moon ;) It'll support XUL when Firefox drops it. I've used Tree Style tabs too long to give it up. UI doesn't constantly change. The UI is pre-Australis. This is one of the reasons I moved to Pale Moon.
In the hopes that you might know something about this: I'm on an attempt to move back to Firefox for various reasons. Tree Style Tabs (and tab unloader) are big reasons for this. In the past I moved to Chrome because Firefox seemed bloated, but after many (HN) articles arguing that this has been fixed, i decided to give FF another chance. But today I noticed that despite the fact that Tab Unloader actually does unloa…
I'm in the same boat. I always used ff even though it's slower. it's better. Last month I ran ff and chrome both clean for 3 days. chrome was faster so I switched to it for two weeks. It's running ok, but I hate it. I hated it before, and I guess that didn't change all these years and this past month. It doesn't even have an option or a way for an addon to remove the x button from the tabs. I hate the way the chrome devs build chrome. It feels like tech-wise chrome runs better. But I will switch back to ff again end of the month. I gave chrome a good try. I am willing to wait 1 second longer every time I visit a website, every day. That's a lot. but at least it will work like I want it. And if it crashes, then I can just restore everything with one click. Unlike chrome that still crashes but I need to two clicks per window to restore everything..
Well I hope there is an extension to get those options back as I used them regularly to to "reset" after I've solved a problem or moved on to a new ticket and see I've got some 15 tabs open for research that I no longer need. Really they are removing this and leaving in "Bookmark all tabs"? Are you kidding me, what a stupid thing to leave in if you are so concerned about context menu space...
I use "bookmark all tabs" quite a bit. If I've got 15 tabs open for research that I want to read later...
Yea I do that too.. Now I have more than 1000 bookmarks. :(
As someone who rarely has more than a few tabs open, I honestly don't get this. What are you doing with so many tabs?
I can't speak for the other commenters, but for me it's because my browsing style was formed back in the days of dialup in Australia. You'd click a link and wait 30+ seconds to have the page load, so instead of staring a loading page you'd open anything that looked interesting in a new tab and continue on the current page, so all the interesting links would be there ready to read without waiting. invariably you would…
I do that with HN actually. I visit between a few times a day and once every second day. I open whatever I think is interesting. Usually 1-10 tabs every time I go to HN. then I spend time in one or two tabs and read a lot, and close these two. Then I still have 8 tabs open.
Second step is repeat.
Third step is I have 400 tabs open.