Ngl, I'm digging this feature.
Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs
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Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
The latter is more valuable to the ad tech industry. In fact, they benefit from browsers with crippled bookmarking systems. Every time a user types in "facebook" instead of facebook.com into the omnibar, that user is directed to a Google/Bing/Brave Search page with ads.
I can't live with Braves terrible bookmark manager, and inability to save history for more than a few months. But I can't live without the flawless ad blocking.
Same. I can't live without ad blocking + ublock. I don't remember the last time I saw an ad and I'm happy for that.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean? Do you feel anxious about having to rent a tuxedo when someone mentions Opera? I jest, but I don't think I get what you are implying. What is the difference between this fantasy name and any other that is also an existing noun?
> What do you mean? For once can we just skip the inevitable discussion that takes place in every single brave thread?
I am sorry, I am truly not aware. I'll google it but appreciate a link if you have it at hand.
Thanks and sorry - I didn't mean to start a thread that is not useful for most people
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#54Anyone remember the "Compact Navigation" test Chrome did ~a decade ago? https://pureinfotech.com/how-to-enable-compact-navigation-fe...
It had a major downside of putting browser chrome over the page area and hiding the URL. Over time the latter has become the default anyways but the former is still iffy. Safari approached this concept more recently, as the only browser I'm aware with this as an officially supported option, but put the URL bar directly in the tab, which is a bit more awkward to use. On Vivaldi there is the option to hide it but then activate it via a keyboard shortcut/gesture, which functions similarly but can cause extra switching between keyboard based navigation and mouse based navigation (the latter of which can be very hard to avoid). Because of the way Vivaldi is implemented it's always performed a lot worse than other Chromium based browsers for me as well. In Firefox there were several CSS hacks for this but it was constantly falling apart on updates so I gave up on it.
I guess the long story short is: as a very light tab user (1-8 throughout the day) I miss this old option in Chrom* greatly.
Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
They certainly do save space on Firefox (with the right config). In the default setting, there is OS title bar, then a address+icon bar, then the tab bar. After installing sidebar tabs, you can remove the tab bar with some css, which saves about 5% of the vertical screen space.
"tab bar in titlebar" has been the Firefox default for a number of years at this point. If Linux, your distro/packager of choice may have overridden that. The only true exception to this is tile based WMs (which don't have title bars) but in that case it's still above by default.
You are correct. I have been using sidebar tabs for probably a decade now, so I had completely forgotten about the redesign.
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#56Sidebery firefox addon, among others, saves you of making richer CEOs that are against human rights (search for brendan eich homophobia).
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#57It's strange to me how a key selling point of these vertical tabs is "save on vertical space", but they almost always still include a header bar. You can see in the video they posted that it saves almost no vertical space, while now taking up a massive amount of horizontal space.
Arc moves the header bar stuff (URL) to the left pane, so the entire right pane is site content.
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#58Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs
#59OmniWeb (from Omnigroup, developers of OmniGraffle, OmniPlan, OmniOutliner et al) was their web browser offering in a particularly fecund period of browser development in the early 2000s, which had vertical tabs. The tabs themselves were little thumbnails of the contents of the web page in question.
I used OmniWeb as my main browser for many years, right up until Firebug and Firefox became the preferred development environment. Great browser, a lot of great UI ideas out of that shop.
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#60Why do people need dozens or hundreds of tabs to the point that they need groups for them? We've had bookmarks (and folders for them) for decades... It made way more sense when you could expect tabs to always be loaded, and not behave like another set of bookmarks.
Usually what happens is stuff like like:
- I spend time researching X, have a few pages open for that, get bored with it, want to continue in a few days.
- I work on X, which has a few related tabs open, and I need to switch to Y for a bit.
- There's a long-term thing I'm working on and off.
- Something I found and want to look at later; "bookmarks-light" (bookmarks might as well be /dev/null for me).