Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron

Re:Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desk... by vladvasiliu on Saturday May 16, 2020 @02:55AM (#23201072)

I am using i3 but what bugs me is that tabs now seem to be part of the browsers.

There's no elegant way of telling Firefox to never use tabs, always open a new window. There are some extensions pretending to this, but the experience is terrible. There actually is a new tab created which is then detached.

I don't usually use Chrome, so I looked up wether it handled this, but it seems to rely on extensions too.

Qutebrowser works, but it has other limitations, such as poor extension support.

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Re:Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desk... by omertuchfeld on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:53AM (#23202046)

I've had the exact same experience you described. Realizing i3 is the way to go and apps shouldn't manage tabs themselves - trying to stop Firefox / Chrome from doing so - realizing it's not simple and the no tabs extension is problematic. Trying qutebrowser and giving up because it's limited.

I've settled on NoTabs Firefox with a userChrome.css that hides the tab bar until Firefox someday supports native no tabs.

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