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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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Post by ap-andersson »

ochronus wrote: post #282

I'd love to use Firefox, but I've been missing three (subjectively, for me) important features: 1. vertical tabs (now happening, yay!) 2. either tab grouping or workspaces (brave/edge vs. vivaldi style) 3. easy sync-and-restore of tabs/groups/workspaces across my devices Do you know of a good solution for 2 and more importantly, 3?

#3

There is an extension that lets you save and sync either all tabs or a certain window and restore wherever. Not exactly what you are looking for I think, but its very useful for me.

I believe that Google had something similar back in the day as an extension to Chrome but removed it.

Great when I am troubleshooting something at work and when done still want the 20+ pages saved for later reference but not open. Or when I am planning for the weekend or researching a product at work during lunch and want to open a bunch of tabs at home later.

https://github.com/sienori/Tab-Session-Manager

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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Post by ap-andersson »

schmorptron wrote: post #290
ochronus wrote: post #282

I'd love to use Firefox, but I've been missing three (subjectively, for me) important features: 1. vertical tabs (now happening, yay!) 2. either tab grouping or workspaces (brave/edge vs. vivaldi style) 3. easy sync-and-restore of tabs/groups/workspaces across my devices Do you know of a good solution for 2 and more importantly, 3?

aren't workspaces the same as containers? when I right click the new tab icon in firefox it gives me an option to open them in work, personal, banking, etc or to create a new container 3 is also built in, called firefox sync. You can open any tab from any device on another one and send tab(s) to other devices

Sometimes I really wish that firefox sync was a bit smarter. The sorting seems so random sometimes and there is no grouping per window or anything. So when looking to open a tab when the computer has 5 windows with ~5-20 tabs per window open and they appear in a random order it can get very frustrating.

Also sometimes when sending specific tabs to my tablet or phone on android there is no notification, even if the app is open. Then I have to open the sync settings and manually press "Sync now" to trigger the notifications.

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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Post by yxhuvud »

the_pwner224 wrote: post #211
waveBidder wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do this too; have you found effective ways to tell firefox to maybe chill on eating all memory? I find if I don't restart ~1/week, it will end up reserving ~32GB of RAM for itself, which is just absurd.

I tried the auto tab discard extension but it didn't help for me. I occasionally force kill FF and have it recover the previous session when it starts up again. Same thing to not lose state when rebooting my computer.

In my experience it is not the amount of tabs that is the problem but that certain tabs (ie reddit) sometimes start to misbehave and eat way too much, so I tend to list the tabs by memory usage and handle it on a by tab-basis.

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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Post by da_rob »

Screenshot:

https://imgur.com/hoOlRDy

Happy that this will finally be a feature of FF. Still pretty useless for me, though, for these reasons:

- There's an empty tab bar shown at the top of the window.

- Currently, there's now way to enable a wider sidebar that shows tab titles, too.

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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Post by cassepipe »

godelski wrote: post #213
worble wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They really need to get out of this stale and boring state and innovate more I'm just as excited as you are for side tabs, but I don't think browsers need to be constantly innovating their UI. In fact, the last time Firefox did that it took a week of tinkering to get it back to a usable state, and I now have the constant "Compact (Unsupported)" layout hovering over me, reminding me that one day I'll probably have t…

I mostly agree, and don't get all the fuss about Chrome (or any other browser's) UI. To me they look all very similar and function very similarly. The differences just don't seem that big of a deal. I think it is mostly people being resistant to change. I had one friend that I convinced to switch to FireFox after a year[0]. A month after he switched over I got him to admit that it was easy to switch and there's no re…

I also thought that Firefox latest redesign was quite bad.

This project fixes it and it's easy to install : https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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Post by ochronus »

ap-andersson wrote: post #291
ochronus wrote: post #282

I'd love to use Firefox, but I've been missing three (subjectively, for me) important features: 1. vertical tabs (now happening, yay!) 2. either tab grouping or workspaces (brave/edge vs. vivaldi style) 3. easy sync-and-restore of tabs/groups/workspaces across my devices Do you know of a good solution for 2 and more importantly, 3?

#3 There is an extension that lets you save and sync either all tabs or a certain window and restore wherever. Not exactly what you are looking for I think, but its very useful for me. I believe that Google had something similar back in the day as an extension to Chrome but removed it. Great when I am troubleshooting something at work and when done still want the 20+ pages saved for later reference but not open. Or w…

Thanks! Does this sync across FF instances on different machines? It's a bit unclear from the description

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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Post by ochronus »

schmorptron wrote: post #290
ochronus wrote: post #282

I'd love to use Firefox, but I've been missing three (subjectively, for me) important features: 1. vertical tabs (now happening, yay!) 2. either tab grouping or workspaces (brave/edge vs. vivaldi style) 3. easy sync-and-restore of tabs/groups/workspaces across my devices Do you know of a good solution for 2 and more importantly, 3?

aren't workspaces the same as containers? when I right click the new tab icon in firefox it gives me an option to open them in work, personal, banking, etc or to create a new container 3 is also built in, called firefox sync. You can open any tab from any device on another one and send tab(s) to other devices

For the containers vs. workspaces - I was sloppy with the term, what I meant is different "views" which include sets of tabs. One slight difference is that containers give you a clean slate for each (as in, if you're logged in to a site in container one, you need to re-login in container 2). In any case, it's a good enough solution for me, thanks for the heads up!

"opening any tab on another device" is not what I'm looking for, though - I want to restore entire wokspaces/tab groups/containers across instances, not one by one, then arrange them again into containers.

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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Post by KingMob »

jamwil wrote: post #216
CuriousCosmic wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried Simple Tab Groups? It's a similar concept but instead of keeping all the tabs organised as a tree (and generally keeping them all open), you can create groups of tabs that are kept unloaded/hidden and you can load them up on a given window with a click of a button or a hotkey. I personally use them so I can context switch between projects. I can keep one group for project a, one for project b, one for…

Safari has this now too. It’s actually a pretty good browser these days.

It's great...except for all the standards it doesn't implement. Probably because they can't collect 30% from every web site.

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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Post by mintplant »

pantulis wrote: post #4
phartenfeller wrote: post #2

A screenshot of how it looks would have been helpful. I guess this is in response to Arc browsers design. https://arc.net/

It seems they took a cue from Arc for the pinned tabs icons. Now they only need to add tab groups a la Tab Stash, Sideberry or Tree Style Tab, and combine that with Sync. Still a lot of work ahead, but this looks very promising. Kudos to the Firefox team.

Firefox for Android already has "Collections" of tabs. Maybe a starting point?
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