Tree Style Tabs Extension Ported to Firefox 57

Re:Tree Style Tabs Extension Ported to Firefox 57 by pkamb on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @07:59PM (#15343726)

Is it the vertical display that people like about Tree Style Tabs, or the inheritance/nesting?

I've always wondered why spawned child tabs don't retain the `Back` history to go back to the web page that created them. Would be so useful; do any extensions exist?

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Re:Tree Style Tabs Extension Ported to Firefox 57 by randkyp on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:05PM (#15343765)

For me, it's both. Nesting is helpful as a visual history indicator and a quick way to prune unused tabs that were opened closely in time. Great when you're doing a quick research. The vertical display helps locating tabs by its title and in general, narrower text on a page is easier to read. (Most screens nowadays are widescreen. Some blogs even overcompensate for this by having huge margins and even huge ads on the sidebar, but that's another story.)

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Re:Tree Style Tabs Extension Ported to Firefox 57 by akho on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @03:17AM (#15345558)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/backtrack-tab...

Doesn’t work with 57, sadly.

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Re:Tree Style Tabs Extension Ported to Firefox 57 by ikurei on Thursday September 28, 2017 @05:53AM (#15355928)

I'd say it's both.

Anecdotally, to me being able to see the whole title and in a vertical list is just enough to like it, it makes it so much easier to find something among a shitload of tabs. Also, I feel it's a much better use of space in widescreen displays.

The tree part of it is less important, but also very useful to visually group related tabs.

Task-managing feels wrong to me in most (all?) OSes I've tried. A browser window with 100 tabs, relating to different research topics and ideas, feels wrong.

For that, I'd rather use one window per topic, and have the tabs in there be related, and that's what I tend to do. It's not always comfortable, and having several big/fullscreen windows from the same app in MacOS is a PITA. Also, you don't always know how much a task is gowing to grow and branch out...

I'm always curious to know how other people deal with this and how they feel about it.

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Re:Tree Style Tabs Extension Ported to Firefox 57 by jacquesm on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @04:29AM (#15345855)

100's of tabs open regularly, without TST it is impossible to keep track of what is where without constantly searching.

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Re:Tree Style Tabs Extension Ported to Firefox 57 by Manishearth on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @02:18AM (#15345316)

FWIW Tab Center Redux (which may have been moved into Tab Center itself, the old, formerly-non-webext addon, not sure if that happened) is pure vertical tabs with no tree. I like it a lot.

Most folks who use Tree Style Tabs use the tree extensively.

I generally try to keep nesting to one level, sometimes two.

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