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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by ImprovedSilence on Sunday November 17, 2019 @12:37PM (#21558913)
i have way too many tabs open at all times, and chrome makes it way way easier to see what I have open and get to the tab I want quickly.(it just shows more tabs than Firefox, this is my main complaint) The top bar uses less vertical real estate and is just much cleaner overall. I can see more if not all of the url. Chromes next tab left, next tab right, and close tab, automatically map to the keyboard shortcut I set in macOS, and I still haven’t even found the menu option for next and previous tab in Firefox. (I’m sure it’s there and I just haven’t found it yet, but if it’s not there, that’s a deal breaker for me)

I very badly want to use Firefox as my main browser, and I have it installed and give it a go every now and then, but it’s just not all the way there yet for me.

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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by kilburn on Sunday November 17, 2019 @12:50PM (#21558983)
The vertical space you can easily fix by opening the hamburguer menu > customize > density (bottom left) > compact. It then uses less space than chrome. You can also add/remove items from the top bar there, making your address bar larger if you want to.

The default hotkeys for next/prev tab are cmd+option+left/right arrow. I don't know how to change those...

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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by clairity on Sunday November 17, 2019 @01:02PM (#21559053)
i use ctrl-tab and ctrl-shift-tab for tabbing. easier 1-handed operation and closer to other "change context" shortcuts like next/prev window (cmd-~, cmd-shift-~) and select desktop/space (ctrl-1, ctrl-2, etc).
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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by ImprovedSilence on Sunday November 17, 2019 @01:51PM (#21559328)
yeah, I'm muscle-memoried into cmd-' and cmd-; for tabbing right and left, I like using those keys, and this is across pretty much everything I use (I suppose chrome and terminals, mostly..). It's firefox, there's probably an extension for it, but that takes work to find and feels kludgy.

good to know about the density, thanks.

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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by chappi42 on Sunday November 17, 2019 @04:47PM (#21560246)
In the mac settings about keyboard/shortcuts, you can define program specific shortcuts; e.g. take the exact name from the firefox menu for the 'next tab' action and give the shortcut you want.
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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by ImprovedSilence on Sunday November 17, 2019 @11:29PM (#21561885)
Right, so that's part of my gripe. in keyboad shortcuts, i've got global (all applications) shortcuts for select/show next/previous tab. Those dont map to firefox. Fine, but Firefox doesn't have a menu title for next tab, so setting a shortcut for a non-named function doesn't work. I've tried the documentation(https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perf...), using "go one tab to the left" doesn't work. It's just way more effort to figure out than it needs to be for a browser in 2019.....
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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by chappi42 on Monday November 18, 2019 @10:49AM (#21565208)
I apologize, you are completely right (was not on the Mac when I answered and mixed it up with Terminal and Finder).
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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by SAI_Peregrinus on Sunday November 17, 2019 @04:11PM (#21560070)
Interesting, my complaint about Chrome's UI is that it doesn't support Tree Style Tabs (or an equivalent) so I can't have that many tabs open at once.
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