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

Maybe (probably?), but back when I worked at Mozilla in ~2010 "Tree Style Tabs" was one of the most popular add-ons.

Here's a screenshot of what the feature looks like:

https://www.ghacks.net/2024/06/25/you-can-try-vertical-tabs-...

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

#4

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.

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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

> I guess this is in response to Arc browsers design. https://arc.net/

It's funny how we've gone full cycle. Early versions of Firefox get vertical tabs because the plugin system is very rich and you could do whatever you wanted with XUL. Firefox quantum comes around and kills XUL based extensions, vertical tabs are dead. Arc revives an ancient idea as something new and hip, firefox "responds" by reviving the very thing they killed.

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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I wish all browsers has first class vertical tabs support and split view. I am really tired of resource hog, unstable arc. Want to return back to traditional browsers but they are not supporting vertical tabs like arc did. And arc turn its face to AI instead of stability (I guess) because of investors.

So we are lonely in the dark :)

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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post #6

I wish all browsers has first class vertical tabs support and split view. I am really tired of resource hog, unstable arc. Want to return back to traditional browsers but they are not supporting vertical tabs like arc did. And arc turn its face to AI instead of stability (I guess) because of investors. So we are lonely in the dark :)

Edge is stable and has vertical tabs and split view support.

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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post #6

I wish all browsers has first class vertical tabs support and split view. I am really tired of resource hog, unstable arc. Want to return back to traditional browsers but they are not supporting vertical tabs like arc did. And arc turn its face to AI instead of stability (I guess) because of investors. So we are lonely in the dark :)

You could check out Vivaldi. The split view is pretty robust. The Vertical tabs can be on left or right, and allow one level of tab grouping.

Re: Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out

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post #6

I wish all browsers has first class vertical tabs support and split view. I am really tired of resource hog, unstable arc. Want to return back to traditional browsers but they are not supporting vertical tabs like arc did. And arc turn its face to AI instead of stability (I guess) because of investors. So we are lonely in the dark :)

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