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Re: Tree Style Tabs

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Post by nicoburns »

Vinnl wrote: post #56
feanaro wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's part of their new philosophy not to make anything configurable or anything "advanced" easy, unless you're jumping through some hoops. I still can't get over the fact that they removed the ability to view individual cookies and their values from the browser.

No, it's part of the philosophy that this particular feature led to users suddenly being without tab bar and basically having a broken browser. Although I do believe they're still weighing that against the benefits of being able to use TST without needing to go through extra hoops. You can still view individual cookies and their values: open the dev tools, then the Storage tab.

The obvious solution would be to have a config preference that the Tree Style Tabs extensions could toggle, but not expose it in the UI...

Re: Tree Style Tabs

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Post by mnutt »

nneonneo wrote: post #3

I use TST extensively to manage hundreds of tabs, and it is a real joy. FWIW, these are the customizations that made TST much more usable for me: 1) Very importantly, hide the horizontal tab bar. You get some vertical screen space back, and you aren't distracted by two ways of showing the same tabs. You'll have to edit your userChrome.css (see e.g. http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=UserChrome.css&pri... for d…

I've been trying to wrangle the top bar into something manageable for a while, and have landed on this:

https://gist.github.com/mnutt/a8ffee69c51a2e150e67acf56692cb...

The one thing to watch out for is that Firefox has been changing the structure of their browser chrome recently, and while it has actually gotten easier to style (the three MacOS buttons are now just html elements!) it requires some occasional maintenance to keep up.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

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Post by ttsda »

kamakazizuru wrote: post #84
nneonneo wrote: post #3

I use TST extensively to manage hundreds of tabs, and it is a real joy. FWIW, these are the customizations that made TST much more usable for me: 1) Very importantly, hide the horizontal tab bar. You get some vertical screen space back, and you aren't distracted by two ways of showing the same tabs. You'll have to edit your userChrome.css (see e.g. http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=UserChrome.css&pri... for d…

I created a userChrome.css file (including the aforementioned snippets + the namespace line on top) and put it into the folder that Firefox tells me is my profile folder - still see the tabs on top though (Mac OS Mojave - FF - Quantum) - any ideas what could be the issue? I did restart firefox.

I was having problems with most userChrome.css I found on FF Dev Edition on Mac OS.

Eventually found this repo with some pretty good ones: https://github.com/Timvde/UserChrome-Tweaks/tree/master/tabs

Here's what I've got: https://gist.github.com/tiagoad/c85f9752033b1d78d23c5bae7373...

Re: Tree Style Tabs

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Post by ttsda »

I've been using TST for many years and it's really the killer feature that keeps bringing me back to firefox.

For those running on older machines who still like having a big tab hierarchy with stuff to check later, there's the "Auto Tab Discard" [1] extension which will discard older tabs from memory while keeping the tab itself, with optional exceptions for pinned tabs, tabs with filled forms, ...

Unfortunately there are still some websites that force me to have Chrome installed, biggest culprit being Facebook which is completely unusable on my 2014 MBP through Firefox.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...

Re: Tree Style Tabs

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Post by gbear605 »

jplayer01 wrote: post #69
petepete wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's odd that so many people confuse the roles of tabs and bookmarks. Perhaps it's a sign that the bookmark UX isn't good (or prevalent) enough. I generally have four pinned tabs open for email, Slack and Trello, plus another five related to what I'm working on.

I'm not confusing anything. Tabs let me switch to different projects incredibly quickly. Bookmarks just don't work.

Bookmarks have a great ux for it: save all open tabs to a bookmark folder, open all bookmarks in a folder

Re: Tree Style Tabs

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Post by blitmap »

I use this addon, but I wish it showed as an actual tree (not an indented list of buttons). Also, there's some space to the left that can be reclaimed if you're not using tab groups.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

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Post by henriquemaia »

shabbyrobe wrote: post #106
nneonneo wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If by "last time" you mean the pre-WebExtension version - yes, that version was rather CPU intensive and I used a different extension (no longer maintained post-WebExtension) back then. I haven't seen any negative performance impact as far as battery or CPU usage are concerned, but as usual YMMV.

I just gave it another try. Unfortunately, things haven't improved. `about:performance` shows a "medium" energy impact for TST. My 2015 Macbook's fans come on and stay on until I disable TST again, after which they reliably spool back down after a short delay. While TST is enabled, Firefox shoots up the list of CPU users in Activity Monitor. Oh well, it was worth a shot, sidebar tabs are just so good when they're wor…

Different OS (Linux, FF 64), but I was curious to know the impact here. TST has no discernible impact.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

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Post by Kim_Bruning »

TylerE wrote: post #12
gamma-male wrote: post #7

I don’t understand how people browse the web without this extension. That’s the number one reason chrome is not usable for power users. I’m also wondering why this is not natively supported by both firefox and chrome.

and I don't understand how people have more than about 10 tabs and stay sane. Do you people like... not use bookmarks at all? Heck, most of the sites I visit on anything like a regular basis I only need to type in the first letter or two and they auto-complete.

Different workflow.

Generally when researching something I'll pick a number of search terms, and for each, I'll actually open a few of the hits (in a new tab each time). Of those hits, most get closed right away once I actually look at them and see they're useless, of the rest, I might read a few, or follow the most relevant seeming links. (But usually close some large number of them)

Wash rinse repeat until I'm actually left with a very small set of things that are pertinent to the task at hand.

(This process does seem to leak slightly. I have to do a separate garbage collection pass once in a while.)

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