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Does anyone know if anything similar exists for firefox? I remember trying some such addons a while ago but they were all extremely laggy.

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Tree Style Tab [1] is a generalisation of this to arbitrary levels of nesting. It also goes down the side of the browser window, which is a far better use of space. I'd say it's the number 1 reason I (still) use Firefox.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

I used it before but I am not a huge fan of it, I do not remember the exact reason however so I might try it again. So far I have been using tab manager plus but it does not let you group tabs together (unless if you create new windows). I miss the old firefox panorama.

It used to be buggy but I've been using it now for months and haven't had any problems.

I tried it and it was incredibly fiddly, the number of preferences bordering on ridiculous. I switched to Tree Tabs and so far liking it.

Personally, I've switched over to Sidebery from Tree Style Tabs (which I used for years). TST was just too buggy for my liking.

I'm curious: what bugs did you run into? I've started using TST about a week ago and have not encountered any bugs whatsoever.

Primarily tabs losing their position, not maintaining their hierarchy, weird behaviour around moving tabs around, crashing and freezing. Also all-around bad performance. Maybe it's improved since I last used it a year ago, but it was so infuriatingly buggy for such a long time that I'm just not willing to give them another chance. Especially when Sidebery just works (99% of the time) and it's more performant than TST ever was.

Tree Style Tabs has more features and is arguably better. In the year following the core changes in Firefox (Chrome extensions, threaded tabs) I had many bugs (high cpu load, broken tree, no restoring at startup...) but I haven't seen a bug in the past year. Configuration was not easy though, and It don't know if it still requires fidgeting with Firefox's files in order to remove the default tab bar.

There is the more powerful version, Tree Style Tabs. Been using it for years and can't switch browsers because of it :).

I've seen people talk about Sideberry but I've never tried it.

I've personally found Sideberry a more performant and less buggy version of TST as of late.

Sidebery (https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery) is great, but is currently not on the Mozilla addons site due to issues with review (https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/issues/336).

It looks like it is available again.

Firefox-csshacks [1] will let you do multi-level tabs in Firefox. I've been using it to give me 3 rows of tabs since Firefox broke Tabmix Plus. It's not as slick as an addon, but it shouldn't be a problem for anyone who lurks here. Clone a repo into your firefox profile directory and copy and paste a few lines of config to enable that feature. This is the sole feature that has kept me on the Firefox side of things.

[1] https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks

On the other hand I keep trying to use Vivaldi but the UI is just slow. At least in Linux it is.

Yep, this exact thing existed I think, - in addition to Tree Style Tabs that have already been mentioned.

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