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Re:Extensions in Firefox 58 by scrollaway on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @07:18AM (#15747368)
I think part of the problem is that Firefox doesn't have flexible, high quality tabs. Vertical tabs, tab trees etc were really popular extensions.

Personally I'd be happy to see Firefox have tab feature chrome natively has:

- Scroll wheel to move between tabs (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1285812)

- Ctrl+1 (2, 3, ...) to jump to a tab. Ctrl+0 to jump to the last tab. [Edit: This works with Alt, nvm!]

- Multi-select tab management (Ctrl+Click, Shift+Click to select, drag, snap and move multiple tabs)

Back when Firefox initially got a lot of market share, its killer feature was tabs. It almost feels like they forgot that :(

Re:Extensions in Firefox 58 by rat87 on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @07:41AM (#15747474)
Chrome tabs sort of suck, they shrink down to no text if you have too many, firefox has a minumim size of tab and lets you scroll the ones that are visible at a time.

Ctrl+1 (2, 3, ...) to jump to a tab.

works for me, Ctrl+0 doesn't

Re:Extensions in Firefox 58 by Vinnl on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @07:44AM (#15747494)
It's Ctrl+9 (on Windows, Alt+9 on Linux at least), rather than Ctrl+0.
Re:Extensions in Firefox 58 by noisem4ker on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @07:30AM (#15747426)
Chrome parity would be good, but I think that with little effort Mozilla could make a tremendous improvement:

- Multiple-row tab bar.

Such an obvious improvement over tabs scrolling off the screen sides or squashing them like Chrome does, I don't know why it's not being considered.

It's already been done by Tab Mix Plus (or was it Classic Theme Restorer?). They only need to copy it and polish it a little.

Re:Extensions in Firefox 58 by baby on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @08:00AM (#15747568)
It's not been considered because Tree Style Tab just is just the best solution to all these problems.
Re:Extensions in Firefox 58 by thom_nic on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @12:59PM (#15749985)
People keep mentioning tree-style tab but I don't see how that's an alternative to TMP's multiple tab rows.

Personally I don't find tree-style tabs appealing at all because (1) I usually have few pages open on the same domain, but I have many pages open on different domains. And (2) I don't want a vertical column of content width lost to a sidebar.

Limiting tabs to a single row per window is awful for usability.

Re:Extensions in Firefox 58 by wtallis on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @02:34PM (#15750812)
> And (2) I don't want a vertical column of content width lost to a sidebar.

You have to understand that this is a pretty unusual concern. Most of the world struggles with screens with aspect ratios optimized for watching TV, making vertical space very precious but leaving plenty of excess horizontal space that cannot be effectively used by the majority of web pages that only use a single column of text.

Re:Extensions in Firefox 58 by thom_nic on Monday December 04, 2017 @04:39PM (#15847779)
> Most of the world struggles with screens with aspect ratios optimized for watching TV ...

You are right about that. I use two external monitors, one of which is rotated 90°. Guess which one I keep my browser window on? :)

Re:Extensions in Firefox 58 by baby on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @01:03PM (#15750018)
You should try tree style tabs for a few days
Re:Extensions in Firefox 58 by oblio on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @08:08AM (#15747614)
Tab Mix Plus.
Re:Extensions in Firefox 58 by glandium on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @07:22AM (#15747396)
Alt+1, Alt+2, etc. jump to a tab in Firefox. Alt+9 is the last tab.
Re:Extensions in Firefox 58 by scrollaway on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @07:33AM (#15747443)
Thanks!
Re:Extensions in Firefox 58 by Symen on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @10:33AM (#15748515)
> Multi-select tab management (Ctrl+Click, Shift+Click to select, drag, snap and move multiple tabs)

You could try the Multiple Tab Handler[1] extension. It seems a bit clunky and limited if you use it alone, but it integrates well with Tree Style Tabs [2]. Note that you could open the vertical tabs sidebar when you need to manage tabs and close it right after. You can also disable the "tree" feature of tree style tabs.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-han...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

Re:Extensions in Firefox 58 by submeta on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @07:31AM (#15747435)
On a Mac: Cmd + 1, Cmd+2, etc + Cmd+9 for last tab