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Not related to this particular release, but I wish Mozilla implemented tree-style tabs as core feature (or at least provided core API). The current "Tree style tab" plugin in indispensable for me, but has to be a hack, however exquisite, especially around tab context menus.

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I'm still baffled at the number of people who have no idea that tree style tabs exist. If more education was given to people about this plugin, it would probably be a core feature of Firefox.

I have to check this out now. I'm one of those who haven't heard about tree style tabs until now

This is the primary reason why I'm able to use FF. Tree style tabs make a huge quality of life difference

Agreed, and I'm confident to say that every power user would benefit from vertical tabs. After all you can still read the title text when having more than 10 tabs open.

I'm experiencing the retina macbook performance issue, hence I can't use FF + tree style tabs anymore, which was frustrating. Until I recently discovered the Vivaldi Browser (https://vivaldi.com/) which has it as a native option - plus it's built on Chromium. Most Chrome extensions work.

Good setup for me so far!

Whoa I am trying this now and it looks amazing!!

It is amazing, and is a huge productivity boost for me.

It has a few irritating quirks, though, and I suppose these quirks have little chance to be removed without some support from browser core.

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