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Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

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Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

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Is there a reason this isn't on the firefox addons site? I think it's bad practice to recommend people run arbitrary code from the internet when there's a simple alternative.

TIL: putting code on the firefox addons site makes it secure by pure magic.

Where "magic" is a review: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/policies/re...

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

#32

OmniWeb did this over a decade ago: http://i.imgur.com/U4Q5siY.jpg I'm glad it's getting more popular but surprised it's taken this long. It makes more sense to use horizontal space on a widescreen monitor.

Yup. They also had a list view that's similar to what's being shown here.

Omniweb was great back in the day, it's too bad it's no longer around.

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

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I've been using Tree Style Tabs[0] with Firefox for a long time. Being able to nest tabs and then collapse them is awesome. It is hard to live without it when using Chrome (I know there is a similar addon for Chrome[1], but it doesn't have the same feel since it just adds a new window off to the side and still has the tabs across the top). [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... [1] https:…

+1 for Tree Style Tabs. This seems in the right direction, but it's not nearly as feature packed as TST. One thing with TST though, pinned tabs is broken :(

They seem to work fine for me, did you try force-updating the add-on?

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

#34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TIL: putting code on the firefox addons site makes it secure by pure magic.

Where "magic" is a review: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/policies/re...

...and reviews by others, and a process by which known bad extensions get taken down.

It's not watertight (as the recent abuses in the chrome web store illustrate), but it's better than nothing.

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

#35
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a reason this isn't on the firefox addons site? I think it's bad practice to recommend people run arbitrary code from the internet when there's a simple alternative.

TIL: putting code on the firefox addons site makes it secure by pure magic.

It gives a clear path to revocation of bad actors as well as future updates.

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

#36
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a reason this isn't on the firefox addons site? I think it's bad practice to recommend people run arbitrary code from the internet when there's a simple alternative.

TIL: putting code on the firefox addons site makes it secure by pure magic.

TIL: people too lazy to write three whole words are more interested in sarcasm than saying something sensible.

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

#37
post #27
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a reason this isn't on the firefox addons site? I think it's bad practice to recommend people run arbitrary code from the internet when there's a simple alternative.

OP isn't the primary addon developer and doesn't want to steal eyes/users from his friend? There are lots of addons that are, at least in part, distributed as blobs from github

Ahh - the OP should urge the primary developer to publish this on the addons site - it looks nice!

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

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post #37
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OP isn't the primary addon developer and doesn't want to steal eyes/users from his friend? There are lots of addons that are, at least in part, distributed as blobs from github

Ahh - the OP should urge the primary developer to publish this on the addons site - it looks nice!

It sounds like they are, or at least they've submitted a pull request. Both the original dev and OP are on github (hence its eminently forkable) and work for Mozilla.

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

#39
I've tried many vertical tabs add-ons for Firefox, but, sadly, none are at the point where I can use them consistently. Some issues that I had:

  - interface buttons disappeared: new tab, tab groups
  - bugs when reordering tabs
  - looked out of place/ugly even with the default theme
That said, this is a sufficient hindrance for me daily that I'm considering learning add-on development to be able to fix these issues in those add-ons or create my own.

One thing that I'd love to have is the ability to reverse the order of the tabs and place the buttons at the top of the vertical tab bar instead of the bottom. I'm surprised that it isn't an option in any of the ones I tried: having the new tab button near the menu button would be a big usability improvement for me (I use the vertical tab bar on the right).

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

#40
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where "magic" is a review: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/policies/re...

...and reviews by others, and a process by which known bad extensions get taken down. It's not watertight (as the recent abuses in the chrome web store illustrate), but it's better than nothing.

AFAIK, Chrome extensions don't go through a review process. SmoothGestures was just one extension that got a new developer and then started submitting every visited url to their servers.
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