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Re:Mozilla Acquires Pocket by yellowapple on Monday February 27, 2017 @07:47PM (#13750129)
"I don't know what I'm going to do when I can't use treestyle tabs anymore. I guess move to Pale Moon."

I hear ya, being in a similar boat. My hope is that Netsurf ends up being a decent contender here by the time Mozilla kills XUL. Else, hopefully TST will indeed be made possible with Firefox-specific WebExtension APIs.

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Re:Mozilla Acquires Pocket by callahad on Monday February 27, 2017 @08:24PM (#13750331)
TST will be possible with WebExtensions. For hard evidence, even the Add-Ons Engineering Manager is working on his own, personal vertical tabs webextension to suss out what APIs we need: https://github.com/andymckay/sidebar-tabs

We may not land everything we need by the time Firefox 57 releases, but we'll get there. If we miss, you have options: you can decamp to Firefox ESR for a few months, where TST will keep working, or someone could theoretically convert TST to a WebExtension Experiment which would work on DevEdition and Nightly builds of Firefox.

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Re:Mozilla Acquires Pocket by dredmorbius on Monday February 27, 2017 @11:41PM (#13751245)
That's very good news. TST is one of the few things that makes web browsing even vaguely viable these days.

I've noticed (on the rare instances I'm on desktop, mostly Mac these days) that Vimperator is also borked (only parts of it seem to be functioning). That's another lifesaver to me, and whatever it takes for it to come back to life and/or an alternative to provide effectively similar functionality ... would be peachy.

If I can lure you to another bit of developer / user advocacy, a bit from about 3 years ago on the content management problem:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/256lxu/tabbed_...

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