10mo ago

Vertical Tabs can now be enabled in Firefox Nightly and are movable to the right side

The most requested Vertical Tabs will make an appearance in the upcoming Firefox. The feature can now be turned on in Nightly itself without the need to rely on third-party extensions or separate Nightly builds.

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Is this just placing them vertically, nothing else?
I currently use the Tree Style Tab extension and really like how it handles sub-tabs and allows collapsing the tree nodes. If I can't have that this is probably not directly useful to me unless extensions can add that functionality.
I guess I'll be watching how this evolves though.
- This is exactly what was expected.
  After all, it's called Vertical Tabs, not Nested Tree Tabs.
  unless extensions can add that functionality
  I guess that's the idea. Most sidebar extensions need reworking with the new sidebar, but now addons wanting to add functionality to the tab strip no longer have to first also "invent" the whole vertical tab strip. They can just start from the existing one.
- Yeah, I use TST with some CSS modifications to nearly eliminate the top bar and I like it a lot
- I'm in a similar boat. I use Sidebery which has groups of tabs (in addition to nesting them). Would really want something similar built in natively to organize all of them.
- I honestly hope they do not. The base implementation should be something utterly basic - I mean, quite literally the horizontal tab strip, but vertical. And then present an API for extending them, allowing consumers to bolt their own functionality on top as needed for their specific use case.
  Don't stuff the browser full of stuff only a tiny minority uses, tbh.
  
  @msdropbear42@loma.ml @Perhyte@lemmy.world @cloudless@fedia.io as a long-time #TreeStyleTab user, I've seen many people mention that #Sidebery is better, more powerful, etc., but I keep missing out on what exactly are the killer features that make the difference for so many people to have this preference. I'm pretty happy with TST, and suspect that the main things I'm missing are small papercuts and UX tune ups, but maybe there are features I don't know I need? Please enlighten me 😁

Okay, great. Can I have tab rows back? On top? Where the tabs go?
- I desire tab matrices. Bottom 20% of the window is my browser display
  
  A tight grid beats getting lost in barely two dozen tabs at a time, scrolling horizontally and having no idea where it begins or ends. You'd need a thousand tabs in one window to take up even 500px vertically.

And just like the fucking floating tabs they have excessively fat padding / gaps. And if you have this replacing the tabs at the top, then you might as well move the window buttons down one row and remove the top bar entirely.
- And if you have this replacing the tabs at the top, then you might as well move the window buttons down one row and remove the top bar entirely
  Yeah that part is weird. But it's early in development and this sounds like something you add late, tbh.
  Still, it's kinda ... well ... the point. Use the readily available horizontal space with a vertical tab strip to free up the precious vertical space by removing that entire bar. 😅
- I have the top bar removed (using some css hacks) for like a year and it's mostly fine. Using sidebery for vertical tabs.

Been using some extensions to get this done.
Currently using Sidebar Tabs. I have gotten used to grouped tabs, which is something I don't want to give up. I've mapped Ctrl+Space to open and close it, which is super satisfying.
I switched from Sideberry, which was cool since it is so configurable, and that it can store and recall entire lists of links. I think this is a nice alternative to bookmarks, because it gives you a sort of link manifest, that you can even export.
Mozilla's attempt seems... lackluster in comparison, but it's still under development. So eh. Thinking of going Librefox, Waterfox or even Floorp - though that would be like going ESR.
- ..I get a "Forbidden" error on all those tags ^^; Apparently they are not publicly available.
  BUT COOL! I'll be giving Floorp a spin then :)

@cloudless@fedia.io One of the few reasons I had to stick to Waterfox, yeepee

I can see the revamped sidebar but it doesn't show the tabs in the sidebar for me.
- Please follow the instructions in the linked article.
  
  Had to wait few hours before it offered correct update, seems to work now.

yess, i've been waiting for this (love sidebury but would love to see something built in).
really hope there will be an option to change the width and add the tab title/favicon, since i prefer the edge vertical tabs. i'm sure that's coming through.

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