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Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

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Post by dietr1ch »

princevegeta89 wrote: post #156
biggestfan wrote: post #2

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?

When was the last time that those 120px of horizontal space made a difference?

I can use 2 windows side by side and the pane just eats horizontal padding on most sites because narrow columns are prettier and easier to read.

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

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Post by dietr1ch »

hellcow wrote: post #127
hardwaresofton wrote: post #126

If you think this is awesome you should check out a browser a friend of mine is building called Horse (yes, called “horse”) https://browser.horse/ The reason I like it is that he’s unified tabs and bookmarks almost, it’s a great UX that looks like some things you might have seen but still feels different. He’s also got wicked design sense — but I’m biased so. I also feel like I’m doing him a disservice — he’s got one…

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

Have you tried feeding the horse?

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

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Post by NayamAmarshe »

orbital-decay wrote: post #159
NayamAmarshe wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Brave Rewards are disabled by default, along with the wallet, VPN and other things.

Most features in Brave are opt-in, not opt-out. I don't know why people think otherwise. This is not Chrome or Edge.

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

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Post by DanielHB »

Al-Khwarizmi wrote: post #174
junon wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really, really liked a lot of Opera's ideas. I think someone on that team really understood good UI design principles, at least at the feature level. If memory serves it included an IRC client at least, and maybe even an FTP client? Can't remember about the latter, but definitely the former. Perhaps a bit "bloated" for its time, but it was always pretty sleek to use. In fact I don't exactly remember why it never be…

Indeed, it did include IRC client, FTP client, email client and download manager with torrent support (not 100% sure if all at the same time, because it has been many years and versions blur in my mind). The funny thing is that even though it included a lot of features I didn't use (for example, I never used the email client, not because it was bad, but I didn't use POP3/IMAP in general during that period), it was st…

I remember reading about Opera back in the day, the reason it was not bloated was that all these features were packaged as separate dlls and only loaded when if you tried to actually use them

Also for a long time one of their main marketing points was that it had really small binary size so you could download it fast. They really spent a lot of engineering in making it performant

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

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Post by NayamAmarshe »

vegetable wrote: post #157
NayamAmarshe wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

No that's not the case. I just checked.

The GitHub issues that you linked also are closed. I followed the duplicates and they're all closed with comments mentioning that it's been fixed.

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

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Post by cropcirclbureau »

morsch wrote: post #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,…

Sideberry is fantastic. Not only is it a great replacement for Tree Tabs, I've also found it to be a better alternative of Simple Tab Groups. With `userChrome` entries to auto-hide Sideberry and the native FF tabs, it's improved the web experience on my smallish laptop screen tremendously.

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

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Post by nsonha »

djcannabiz wrote: post #99
benjaminkitt wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Stack browser. Not quite what you describe, but a step in that direction. https://stackbrowser.com/

After taking a glance at their website, this seems quite similar to the arc browser. Have you tried arc, and if so how do you think they compare?

To save you time trying it out, their implementation of tiling is better than that of Arc. Unfortunately it suffers the same problem most mainstream browsers do: broken pinned tabs, and there is no pinned tab groups like Arc

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

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Post by infotropy »

ubercore wrote: post #197
morsch wrote: post #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,…

Arc does this as well, I think.

It does. arc’s my daily driver. Best vertical tabs implementation I’ve run across (for me).
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