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• dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Firefox still doesn’t have a native vertical tab bar.

  At least the extension APIs are powerful enough to have an extension that does a decent job (or even a great job, in the case of extensions like Sidebery), plus there’s a way to hide the regular top tabs. That’s not the case with Chrome.

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• egerlach@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Firefox still doesn’t have a native vertical tab bar.

  That is only mostly true now. There is an about:config setting you can turn on in FF 129 (released this week) which will let you have native vertical tabs. The implementation is only about half done, but it’s good enough for me to use alongside Sidebery Tabs.

  You can track progress on vertical tabs in Bugzilla. They are also working on tab groups, but that work is at an earlier stage.

  All in all, I think we’ll see vertical tabs in the next 6 months or so? As a devout Firefox user and resister of the Chromium monopoly, I am really excited.

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  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why have I never considered vertical tabs before? The screen is way too wide for normal pages, you can fit a bunch more information sideways per tab, and way more tabs vertically than horizontally. You could even double-stack them with all the space available.

    This is such an obvious change to make.

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  • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That is only mostly true now. There is an about:config setting you can turn on in FF 129 (released this week)

    That’s also the one with the intrusive, facebook-endorsed, opt-in advertising system, isn’t it? I use LibreWolf, because Mozilla doesn’t truly care for privacy.

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    • mke@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hey, I think it’s possible you’re misunderstanding how the system you’re referring to works, as well as its purpose. It’s happened a lot.

      I’d like to try to help by answering any questions I can and clarifying things, if you’re willing to talk.

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• YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And their bookmark manager on android is absolute crap.

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  • vanontom@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Agreed. A real PITA to organize, some unintuitive and hidden options, but very basic. I’ve used sync and organized on desktop. (But now I do NOT sync desktop bookmarks at all, it has messed them up too many times.)

    Not a huge problem, but annoying. Like some newer non-removable toolbar buttons on desktop. Lack of JXL support. I’m a huge Firefox and Mozilla fan, used non-stop for years, but it has annoyances. The team also used to quickly cater to user feedback, but that seems to have slowed.

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• kokofruits_1@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The translation tool is pretty good though

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  • mke@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Local translations, heck yeah! I know it’s not the case for everyone, but I’ll even take worse translations if it means being able to ditch google and friends.

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• uranibaba@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Firefox still doesn’t have a native vertical tab bar.

  What’s up with everyone obsessing this? I tried Floorp and vertical worse.

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  • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have an ultrawide. Vertical works a lot better on ultrawide than on more narrow screen ratios. Though ultimately it’s just a matter of preference. I personally dislike dark mode.

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    • uranibaba@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I only use a laptop, having vertical took too much screen real estate.

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      • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah I can see that. My work computer is a laptop, with an ultra wide external monitor. I never use the browser on the laptop screen because with vertical tabs it just takes up too much space. Otherwise vertical tabs give you an easy overview of what you have open if you like me tend to leave a tonne of tabs up.

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And profiles work like shit, at least they announced they were gonna get to it…

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Coincidentally, I just saw this article: howtogeek.com/mozilla-firefox-vertical-tabs-test/

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