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Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

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The more I think about this, the more convinced I am that I want a browser that functions like an IDE. Multiple panes with tabs, that can be resized either to custom sizes or automatically (binary space partitioning). It’s too much for a general purpose browser, which is how we’ve got the Chrome, Safari, Firefox we have. But I think the appeal of a more information-dense browser is broader than we think, anyone doing…

So emacs ?

Obviously, but Emacs is (un)fortunately not for everyone.

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

#152

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> Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

Would you mind providing just a little more information? This is clearly an issue but I'm not sure what it could be -- I'm not sure sentry is installed on the site either. What page were you on where you saw that? Were you not able to load the page itself? If you wouldn't mind opening up the browser console, I'd love to know what went wrong.

It probably happens due to the disabled hardware acceleration (or just WebGL). At least it's happened to me. Not surprising as the page draws a literal 3D horse.

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

#155
Vertical tabs without nesting (trees) is such a wasted opportunity. Nesting lets you close/minimise/etc a group of a related tabs, eg. all the search results you opened from a single query. I hope Brave's implementation at least lets you switch tabs using the mouse wheel, which is probably my favorite feature of the Firefox vertical tabs addons.

BTW, I was a TST user for many years, and recently switched to Sidebery, which seems to do the same and more, but is a bit more polished.

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

#156

It'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.

Saving 40px of vertical space in lieu of losing 120px of horizontal space?

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

#157

Im conflicted, I like the general idea behind brave, their vertical tabs look good, but the browser deeply integrates this crypto grift and robs sites I visit and have their ads allowed of their revenue then wants them to "opt-in" to their grift to get the money they stole.

They're disabled by default. It's better to try it out than to read opinions on the internet about the browser and form a viewpoint, I say this because I too have been guilty of the same.

IIRC, the background processes for these ad and crypto services still run in the background even when you disable them. I haven't checked the browser in a long while. But it's easily verifiable by opening the brave task manager.

Quick Google result: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5429

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

#158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

Would you mind providing just a little more information? This is clearly an issue but I'm not sure what it could be -- I'm not sure sentry is installed on the site either. What page were you on where you saw that? Were you not able to load the page itself? If you wouldn't mind opening up the browser console, I'd love to know what went wrong.

I’m on Safari on an iPhone loading the homepage.

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

#159

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That's Brave for you. The founder is a crypto nut, and the browser is adware (shows ads itself instead of merely rendering ads on third party websites).

> and the browser is adware Been using the browser for 2 years and yet to see an ad.

Because you opted out. The browser is ad-supported though, their whole business model is supposedly built on the users opting in to view strictly controlled ads for cryptocurrency rewards, at the same time stripping the existing ads from the sites, forcing the websites to use Brave Software as the middleman if they want a share of their ad revenue.

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

#160

Now if only you could hide the tab-favicon sidebar... Arc does this, but they don't give you the URL bar. It may sound nitpicky (and it is) but I really want the hidden tab sidebar AND a visible URL bar. Here's hoping either Arc or Brave will make this an option.

I'm on Arc. If you're ok with the url bar being visible where you want it to be visible — you can trigger it per-domain (tab?) then this is how it looks like when you enable Developer Mode for a "site": https://shottr.cc/s/H7dA/SCR-20230602-dhd.png

Thanks for this. I had seen that once on localhost and wondered how to get that URL bar for all URLs. I didn't know you could use it per-domain, which may be good enough. Cheers.
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