Vertical Tabs can now be enabled in Firefox Nightly and are movable to the right side
Vertical Tabs can now be enabled in Firefox Nightly and are movable to the right side
Waiting for Vertical tabs in Firefox? Official Nightly builds now offer this feature, allowing you to enable and even move it to right side.
The most requested Vertical Tabs will make an appearance in the upcoming Firefox. The feature can now be turned on in Nightly itself without the need to rely on third-party extensions or separate Nightly builds.
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Is this just placing them vertically, nothing else?
I currently use the Tree Style Tab extension and really like how it handles sub-tabs and allows collapsing the tree nodes. If I can't have that this is probably not directly useful to me unless extensions can add that functionality.
I guess I'll be watching how this evolves though.
This is exactly what was expected.
After all, it's called Vertical Tabs, not Nested Tree Tabs.
unless extensions can add that functionality
I guess that's the idea. Most sidebar extensions need reworking with the new sidebar, but now addons wanting to add functionality to the tab strip no longer have to first also "invent" the whole vertical tab strip. They can just start from the existing one.
I'm in a similar boat. I use Sidebery which has groups of tabs (in addition to nesting them). Would really want something similar built in natively to organize all of them.
Yeah, I use TST with some CSS modifications to nearly eliminate the top bar and I like it a lot
@Perhyte@lemmy.world @cloudless@fedia.io Agree, but fwiw, IMO, #Sidebery is even more powerful & flexible than #TreeStyleTab AO. After being spoiled by both these for years, #Nightly has heaps of catching up to do before the native solution will become my choice... but i emphatically DO want sophisticated #VerticalTabs to be native, so hope the Devs learn from & adopt from these two AOs.
I honestly hope they do not. The base implementation should be something utterly basic - I mean, quite literally the horizontal tab strip, but vertical. And then present an API for extending them, allowing consumers to bolt their own functionality on top as needed for their specific use case.
Don't stuff the browser full of stuff only a tiny minority uses, tbh.
@msdropbear42@loma.ml @Perhyte@lemmy.world @cloudless@fedia.io as a long-time #TreeStyleTab user, I've seen many people mention that #Sidebery is better, more powerful, etc., but I keep missing out on what exactly are the killer features that make the difference for so many people to have this preference. I'm pretty happy with TST, and suspect that the main things I'm missing are small papercuts and UX tune ups, but maybe there are features I don't know I need? Please enlighten me 😁
@waldyrious@mastodon.social @Perhyte@lemmy.world @cloudless@fedia.io I was a #TST user for many years, before discovering #Sidebery, so i do know how excellent TST is. IMO though, TST lost its way once the Dev chose to remove much core functionality from it, devolving it all instead to myriad companion AOs the user then also must install. As well, various functions some users wanted were explicitly ruled out by the Dev.
Otoh the Sidebery Dev has been immensely receptive to new ideas, as well as feedback for improving existing features, + ALL the functionality of TST exists within Sidebery's Settings without needing to have any companion AOs. There's so much i like about Sidebery, but just to mention a mere handful of benefits over TST:
- tab hover preview thumbnails
- infinite separate Workspaces [called Tab Panels in Sidebery]
- optional integration in the Sidebery Panel of Closed Tabs, Bookmarks, History [done better than in TST]
- infinite Session backups & restores
- really clever context menu options such that many commonplace tab operations can be done "one handed"... you really need to play with this to understand
My reply is inadequate. Much better would be to install the AO, explore its rich Settings, & play with it all.
@msdropbear42@loma.ml @Perhyte@lemmy.world @cloudless@fedia.io thank you! The integrated history and bookmarks alone is already enticing enough. I'll give it a try! 😃