Mozilla released a standalone Firefox Nightly test build recently that includes support for vertical tabs. Here is how it looks.
  • Karna@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Bad news is that it is not clear at this point whether Mozilla is going to go forward with the implementation. A post on Reddit by one of the project members suggests that the build is a "rough proof-of-concept". Some features tested in the build "did not survive". It is unclear which did not, as they are not mentioned. Mozilla is, however, implementing those that survived the cut into Firefox. Again, the poster does not mention which those are. It is also not verified that the poster is actually a member of the project team, so take this with a grain of salt as well.

    • Ⓑⓡⓞⓚⓔⓝ@lemdro.id
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      9 months ago

      Isn't Firefox open source? So isn't it possible that anyone could see the changes being made even in the nightly versions? I'm not a programmer so forgive my ignorance.

  • BreakDecks@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    I use Edge on my work computer since I can log into it with enterprise SSO and store my passwords and bookmarks to my work account. Not ideal, but I don't do anything personal on my work computer because I already have zero expectation of privacy on it anyway.

    Vertical Tabs are an absolute game-changer, especially combined with tab groups. I can actually juggle hundreds of tabs in a single browser window without issue. It's the only thing I can say that Edge got right.

    I've been waiting for this development for a long time. I can't wait to have this functionality on my personal computer, on a privacy-respecting FOSS browser no less. The extensions currently available for this are just not that great, it has to be a native feature.

  • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    9 months ago

    Those screenshots look really nice, ngl, hoping this goes through. Edge and Vivaldi have had their own vertical tab implementations for a while now, and there are Firefox forks that show it can be done. No reason for base Firefox not to have it at this point.

    While I'm here, Mozilla bring back compact spacing, plz k thx.

    Edit: Just tried it, it's got that nightly jank but it's promising. I hope Mozilla continues with this. It looks and feels great.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    I would love the option of keeping containers in vertical tabs with "page tabs" horizontal. For example; Facebook, Personal, Banking, Work, Incognito, etc containers along the left as vertical tabs, and each one has all the pages in tabs across the top. Vertical tabs only appear after you open more than one type of container.

    • volcel_olive_oil [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      that'd be really nice for me too, currently I have a bunch of loosely categorized free-floating windows (extremely wide screen problems), would be great to collect all that into one (I miss that function they used to have where you could have tab groups organized physically with a special shortcut)

  • GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    My dream would for this to at least have an option for collapsable tree-style tabs. That's what I'm missing the most from the Edge implementation. Even "normal" vertical tabs struggle when you have over a hundred open tabs.

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    I just spent 3 days learning a basic level of css and messing around in my userchrome and NOW they decide to add it...

    • Karna@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      Your CSS knowledge is still useful to customise other areas of Firefox UI.

  • Bit-Man@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    I'm using vertical tabs since 4 years ago and to do so installed Tree Style Tab (https://tinyurl.com/y5gr4dyn)

    Also has to disable horizontal tabs create or update the file chrome/userChrome.css located at your profile with

    #TabsToolbar {
  visibility: collapse;
}

    and add the setting toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets with value true (use about:config)

  • Coelacanthus@lemmy.kde.social
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    9 months ago

    It's better to integrate Tree Style Tab addon instead. It's not a good idea to re-implement a function which already has a great implementation...

  • ManniSturgis@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    Top right of my tab bar in firefox, there is a little down pointing arrow. I click that: BOOM vertical tabs. Now make it an optional fixed thingie and let me stack them. I may be missing something here, but that sounds like something an experience Firefox dev can implement in half an hour.

  • GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Yesss come on! I moved to Edge at my place of work because I can no longer see what I'm doing with horizontal tabs. And we can't use addons in Firefox.

    This will land in ESR in three years time and then we'll be rolling...