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Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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PcChip wrote: post #132
hbn wrote: post #122

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Yeah, I gave an honest shot at using vertical tabs for a few months because it frankly does seem like a more logical use of screen real estate. Web pages don't tend to take up much horizontal space, so you might as well put a bigger list of tabs there where they can all show more text. For one thing I could just never get used to my normal tab-switching shortcuts moving me up and down compared to left and right. And…

>I start feeling dirty and it gives me some incentive to clean up. I wish I had your discipline, I just open new browser windows and start more tabs there

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Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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Post by nixass »

Retr0id wrote: post #86

I used to be a tree-style-tabs power user but at some point I went back to regular tabs. I find that the amount of horizontal tab space is pretty close to the actual number of things I can usefully have open at once. Seeing the tabs get "squished" is my reminder to close the ones I no longer need. I was using the tab-state as a sort of short-term working memory and I don't think it was doing me any favours, particula…

It really depends on your workflows. I dread tree style on work laptop as I go through tickets a lot, and only what matters to me is last 4 digits out of 10 the tickets have. If I use horizontal tabs second half of tab name is truncated but opposite on tree styled ones

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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Post by nattaylor »

On Chrome, I solve my too-many-tab issues with an extension [0] that closes the LRU tab once a threshold is reached (10 for me). I find the tabs I need are open and wide enough, and the tabs that autoclose were not useful anymore. About once a month I'm doing a research task where I actually want many tabs and I turn it off temporarily.

[0] - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/max-tabs/ghhcibaghj...

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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Post by __david__ »

Retr0id wrote: post #86

I used to be a tree-style-tabs power user but at some point I went back to regular tabs. I find that the amount of horizontal tab space is pretty close to the actual number of things I can usefully have open at once. Seeing the tabs get "squished" is my reminder to close the ones I no longer need. I was using the tab-state as a sort of short-term working memory and I don't think it was doing me any favours, particula…

You must not had ADD :-). I currently have 2630 tabs in my main window (I admit I may need to prune that down _just a bit_). But that many tabs can only happen with a vertical tab-bar. I started with tree-style tabs but I'm now using "Sideberry" which seems to be a little nicer.

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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Post by kbrosnan »

thomasahle wrote: post #102
kbrosnan wrote: post #97

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OS window managers do a better job of that. Split view inside the browser has some thorny issues around making sure the user knows what resource they are interacting with. There is a lot of complexity when it comes to focus/blur in HTML, CSS, JS, etc.

The cat was out of the bag, when browsers got tabs. They are already tiny window managers, and may as well lean into it.

Tabs state management is simpler and more battle tested. Split pane browsers will need to relearn some of the same problems/security found when tabed browsing was introduced. They will have unique problems/security as well. I would be interested to see how split pane browsers deal with focus stealing JS especially with timeouts or other shenanigans.

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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Post by ReadCarlBarks »

nattaylor wrote: post #164

On Chrome, I solve my too-many-tab issues with an extension [0] that closes the LRU tab once a threshold is reached (10 for me). I find the tabs I need are open and wide enough, and the tabs that autoclose were not useful anymore. About once a month I'm doing a research task where I actually want many tabs and I turn it off temporarily. [0] - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/max-tabs/ghhcibaghj...

Firefox equivalents:

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/auto-close-tabs/

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/limit-active-tabs/

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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Post by whycome »

Cool. But dammit why aren't tabs more modifiable. I want to rename them. I want to assign an icon. I am okay if a tab takes up two vertical lines to make it entirely readable. There was an element of something really useful in MS 'Metro' UI -- just the fact that there could be variations in size of target/icon/links. I currently 'pin' my mail and notes tab. These exist as specific functional tabs -- let me style them a bit differently or something.

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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Post by ReadCarlBarks »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #137
ReadCarlBarks wrote: post #120

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They're working on a profile switcher: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re...

Can’t you change the user profile in the command line with a flag? Surprised it takes this long to implement that in a gui fashion.

You can open different profiles by typing about:profiles into the address bar.

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-remove...

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