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It should be implemented on os-system level, so you can access the content, no matter with which app.

Yeah. I don't understand why modern browsers don't allow disabling tabs. I already have a window manager that's quite good at managing windows. I don't need another level for that with its own rules.

Having a separate window per tab will consume more resources, than showing only a single tab content at a time.

Meh, window management is optimized to the hilt. The real expense is the web view, which you're going to have anyway, as these days all browsers use separate processes.

Don't know which of you or the sibling is right. But even assuming you are, maybe display a warning or something, but let me disable the tabs. They're an absolute PITA. I would gladly buy more RAM to accommodate that.

For Firefox, I've found an extension that moves tabs to a new window. It mostly works, but there are rough edges. I apparently have enough resources for all my browser windows in my shaggy laptop for it to never swap. The overhead doesn't seem huge enough to warrant the removal of the possibility of disabling tabs.

https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks/blob/master/c...

Will this open new tabs in a separate window? After a quick look over it, it'll just hide the tab bar when there's only one tab present.

In settings/preferences you can make “open a new window” the default.

It doesn't work well enough. For example, CTRL-Click a link ignores it and opens a tab. Menu -> Settings also ignores it and opens a tab.

Shift-Click does the trick, but not for Menu > Settings. You can also drag a tab to tear it out to become a new window.

It doesn't work well enough. It's mostly terrible, for example window size and position not being remembered, and opening in random places and sizes.

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