Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by reikonomusha on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @10:12AM (#15338789)

Tree Style Tab is the killer feature for me and some of my scientist coworkers. If this disappears or doesn’t work, I’ll probably use Chrome.

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by callahad on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @12:18PM (#15340048)

Just in case you missed if above, there is a preview version of Tree Style Tab that's compatible with Firefox 57.

Edit: Actually, not a preview versions. TST just published an update and now it works on Firefox 57: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by Yoric on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @10:20AM (#15338847)

Which would be a shame, now that Firefox is (IMHO) better than Chrome, once again :)

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by snaky on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:38AM (#15339590)

Are you kidding? It's like "Blackberry is better than iPhone once again, finally losing the keyboard".

The main and only distinctive feature of Firefox was programmability (XUL, XPCOM), and now it's gone. There are forks like PaleMoon and Waterfox though but for how long.

Firefox had to take that app-platform niche (thanks to XUL, XPCOM) that now occupies Electron, but failed on that chasing after Chrome.

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by minitech on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:51PM (#15340994)

No, it’s not like that at all. Firefox’s performance, memory usage, and UI all far outstrip Chrome’s in my browsing now; I don’t see any reason to use Chrome apart from the usual cross-browser testing, and it’s been that way for a year (?) now.

(And Firefox “forks” have always been a very good way to be behind on security patches to no benefit.)

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by etatoby on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:23AM (#15339440)

Plus, there's that recent Webkit-based browser with vertical tabs as it's main feature. It was covered here on HN a few days ago.

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by baby on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:26AM (#15339471)

What is it????

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by kodablah on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @02:54PM (#15341534)

I wrote https://cretz.github.io/doogie/ and did a show hn a few days ago. It's chromium based though, not webkit.

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by Santosh83 on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:00PM (#15340491)

Not sure if parent means this, but Vivaldi can do vertical tabs. But no idea if that is as powerful/flexible as Tree Style Tabs on Firefox. Probably not...

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by TuringTest on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @12:25PM (#15340135)

Vivaldi, maybe? But I don't think it has nested tabs.

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by etatoby on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:21AM (#15339429)

I have switched from Tree Style Tabs to the Test Pilot vertical tab extension (I don't remember the exact name) plus the about:config option that makes them always small, plus a few lines of userChrome.css to make the close button larger, like it was in one of the first versions. I recommend it.

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by TuringTest on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @12:28PM (#15340160)

It was called Tab Center, but now the experiment has ended. Is there a way to install the extension now?

https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by callahad on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:29PM (#15340785)

Tab Center Redux: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tab-center-re...

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by hossbeast on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @12:21PM (#15340090)

Is there a Tree Style Tabs extension for chrome? I thought it was only possible in FF.

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