Tab search exists: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-open-tabs-firefo..., also you type % into the address bar to start searching over tabs. Not sure if this covers your needs, though.
Someone in Chrome/Edge/Safari must be thinking about doing this, I don't know why it hasn't been cloned. Can't be too hard to do.
Which raises the question: why would FF sabotage it? Why isn't it easy to hide the default tabs, and why does the sidebar have the name of the extension providing it stuck at the top?
They had all of the warning in the world about how important this extension was to people years before finally removing XUL, half a decade later you still can only repair the display problems through CSS that isn't kept consistent from version to version, and feature requests/bug reports on the issue are filled with antagonism from the project.
> I don't know why it hasn't been cloned
opera had vertical, grouped tabs over twenty years ago.
Is it this one?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
with TST whenever I need to reorder/re-group things, it's a pain (I still appreciate TST a lot)
No - it is figuratively the killer feature.
If it were literally the killer function this would be a very different discussion.
vs
> (literally the killer) feature
A "killer feature" is a phrase with its own meaning so we can treat it as an atom and apply modifiers to it. The order of operations matters, and I posit that the OP placed their imaginary parentheses as I did in my first example.
Easy, most people never use more than five or six tabs because it’s annoying to have more. TST is a solution to a marginal use case so no one invests the time into developing it.
Privacy and ad-blocking are great, but I could see myself being lazy and switching to a browser with a better UX, if one existed. But you'll have to take Tree Style Tabs from my cold, dead hands
(I'm aware of Orion, but when I last used it I found it to still have performance and polish issues)
https://gist.github.com/ruanbekker/f800e098936b27c7cf956c560...
https://superuser.com/questions/1424478/can-i-hide-native-ta...
https://medium.com/@Aenon/firefox-hide-native-tabs-and-title...
/r/firefoxcss is great for asking questions regarding how to customize TST https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/search?q=tst&restrict_sr...
1. Go to `about:config` and set toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets true
2. Go to `about:support` and find your profile folder
3. Create subfolder `chrome` there
4. Create file `userChrome.css` in `chrome` folder
5. Put this text in it:
#main-window #TabsToolbar {
visibility: collapse !important;
}And Tree Tabs felt like a better Tree Style Tabs (but there were no bugfixes in past 4 years).
Though very rarely Sideberry looses/forgets the tree structure of tabs, and I have to restore it from one of the recent snapshots (which it creates every day automatically).
but most useful is the auto-grouping of child tabs anyways
https://gist.github.com/wlonkly/6c21134adbdeb6eb257f52076bc3...
and it gives me a nice and minimalist UI consisting of just-dense-enough tab titles, with the current tab highlighted. Looks like so:
That's possible by editing userChrome.css. I don't remember the exact incantations, but I'm pretty sure it's mentioned in TST's docs and/or settings page.