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Can anyone comment.on whether tree style tabs has been ported, or commented on if it will be?
It practically has, although they're still working on an API to hide the tab bar - until then, you'll have to hide it by editing a local CSS file.
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Depends on what time zone you're in; I'm a recent nightly convert, and am currently in a very different TZ than usual. I had gotten used to around when updates would come through, but now I'm all screwed up :)
You missed the fact that GP was making a joke about a typo ("Nighty" vs Nightly) :-)
While it's going to be a great release (have been trying the Quantum beta on side), I'm very sad to see many of the extremely useful extensions that will just stop working as soon as I switch.
Can anyone comment.on whether tree style tabs has been ported, or commented on if it will be?
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> I'm surprised more tech people don't use it, considering the tech communities love for power and the ability to customise things. I used to be pretty fanatical about Firefox. But when it got so slow that simple scrolling started dropping frames, I had to switch.
Consider giving it a try again with the Firefox Beta (or wait for 57 final next week). I switched back from Chrome.
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I have always just used ctrl + pgup/pgdown in Chromium for tab switching (same in Sublime). I am guessing OP is referencing the fixed min-width of the tabs though? I know it is completely insane, but I have a strong compulsion to keep my tab count low. Once it starts approaching 7 or so, it is time to evaluated which 3 or 4 have to go. Meanwhile I go look at someone else's monitor and they have 25 open all the time,…
I use ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab to cycle tabs. Good to know that there are other options. I also don't see how people have the RAM to have 50 tabs open. If I can't read part of the title of my tab, it's being moved to a new window or closed.
In a single processed browser, ram is not an issue. I've been using 25+ tabs for many years, only recently in Chrome I experienced a low ram warning (i have 8GB). I switched back to firefox 56.
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Visit "about:preferences#search" and then uncheck every search engine under "One-Click Search Engines" list.
Okay, I'm stupid. For some reason I never even tried to uncked _all_ of them. Always been keeping Google, thinking it should be there for search in the url bar to work. Thanks!
Firefox 57 will also allow users to enable Always-on Tracking Protection by default (you could sort of do it before, too, but you had to enable the Private Mode by default, which also deletes cookies and other stuff). This should make it easier for people to enable. It's what Do Not Track should have been all along. We asked advertisers nicely to stop tracking us with DNT, and they didn't care. Now we're going to jus…
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I used Chrome(ium) for years before tab groups got me to switch to FF, if you take away tab groups, I'd rather just go back to it, if for no other reason that principle. Mozilla won me over by having the more flexible browser, that flexibility is going away, I have no loyalty to them beyond that, honestly. May not make much sense but that's how I feel.
It's still going to be the more flexible browser. It already supports webextension APIs that Chrome doesn't, with more on the roadmap. Of course it still pales in comparison to what you could do with XUL, but the point remains. Firefox addons will still be more capable than Chrome ones.
A half measure doesn't win me anything.
I still use Chrome on my phone, so I get tab sync back by switching, which I gave up to gain tab groups.
I buy in to Google's ecosystem with a personal account and 2 business accounts. The slight integration is nice.
I also generally prefer Chromes UI.
Again, I appreciate my use case is niche, I'm not saying Mozilla have made a mistake and should bow to my whims, I'm just saying I was on Chrome for more than half a decade, I switched to Firefox specifically for tab groups. With them seemingly going away, all things being equal I prefer Chrome.