Mozilla introduces updates to tab management in Firefox
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The more exciting thing in my opinion is the really cool work that's been going on in the form of the Vertical tabs/Sidebar nightly experiment.
edit: Yeah, you're right, old features, I just didn't use them. :-D
https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
It's still weirdly slow, it somehow takes thousands of milliseconds (entire seconds!) to display the tab list on startup, but much less buggy than TST.
The styles editor is very nice. Changing the fonts to -apple-system made it blend in well with the OS.
Some things are in unexpected places (for example I expected to reopen a closed tab with right click outside an open tab - reopen closed tab, but it's in the trash icon at the bottom), but I think they are in better places. Sidebery is better designed.
Sidebery can also save your tabs automatically, something I used another extension for (Tab Extension Manager, which loads very slowly)
I submitted a feature request a year ago but got no traction, and now I just expand and re-close groups before mass closing to double check if I need anything.
So far the tabs work much the same as ungrouped ones. There is a small coloured button to the left of the group with the name, and the tabs in the group are underlined with the same colour.
But then you click the button and the tabs all collapse.
The nice thing is when expanded they are just like every other tab, not hidden away in a folder, or some menu or modal. But then you can clean up with the press of a button.
Lack of Tab Groups is what stopped me from switching to Firefox last year.
For now I am on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-view... extension, but it doesn't work the way workspaces work across windows.
I only leave a tab open if I’m still actively using it. If I need to remember a tab I save the url in a bookmarking tool of some kind. Then I can easily find it later.
Ctrl/cmd+w is the keyboard shortcut. I highly recommend it. If you have so many tabs you can read all the titles in normal horizontal mode, you have a problem.
Do you mean "can't read all the titles"?
Taking personal preference out of it completely, it would seem the most used browser by virtue of this fact has the best UI, so why not just copy it?
I'm anticipating replies along the lines of, Chrome doesn't have the best UI, but the numbers don't lie, something is going on. Even just offering it as an option would be a good way to test the theory. (I know Firefox has themes and customisations to make it similar, but it's not the same, it's a hurdle and the end result isn't the same, and Mozilla doesn't seem interested in making this pursuit easy).
There's a specific sibling extension for isolating Facebook, too.
- some browsers do tabs below the address bar
- Firefox has tab scrolling, minimum tab widths, and the tab itself is a floating box, not a part of the page visually.
- Firefox's address bar is also different, to me it seems potentially also should be A/B tested with directly copying Chrome
Not Chrome though, so I don't see the relevance. I also don't like it. The address is relevant to that tab only, so it should be hierarchically inside it.
> - Firefox has tab scrolling, minimum tab widths, and the tab itself is a floating box, not a part of the page visually.
So, visual tweaks? Fine, but I don't see how that would improve UX massively.
> - Firefox's address bar is also different, to me it seems potentially also should be A/B tested with directly copying Chrome
Perhaps. Or maybe there's a lot of people who prefer Firefox's. In any case, again - visual tweaks?
I really don't see how any of those would bring great improvements to the Firefox experience.
If that were the case, yes. But that's not how Google achieved such controlling market share.
This doesn't follow at all. It's not how anything does or ever has worked. Consider your claim in the context of the days of IE6, if this is not obvious to you upon reflection.
I’d much rather be able to assign colors to entire windows and use these as my groups (I already have muscle memory for switching between these on all OSes), but that doesn’t seem to be possible.
It only does it for tabs that you've viewed previously (i.e. not restored from a previous session), and not the current tab.