Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden

Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by vord1080 on Sunday October 24, 2021 @03:26AM (#28975637)

Seconded. Firefox is better than ever. Can't believe there isn't a Chromium derivative with multi-select, table selection, and shift+right click. Containers are also incredibly useful.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by black_puppydog on Sunday October 24, 2021 @06:14AM (#28976499)

OMG I just learned about multi-selection of tabs. This is great. :D

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by dorgo on Sunday October 24, 2021 @06:52AM (#28976673)

use cases?

It has at least one drawback. In the past there was an option to reload all tabs ( because every couple weeks Firefox starts begging to be restarted and after restart all tabs are blank ). Now you have to select all, reload, and not forget to de-select. If you forget and hit Ctrl+W you close all tabs.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by black_puppydog on Sunday October 24, 2021 @09:16AM (#28977613)

well yeah, multiple tab management is my use case, what else? :P

Your pain points are real, but incidentally not relevant to me. Since I've been using FF nightly fulltime for a while I restart the browser (with session restore of course) quite regularly, mostly every day.

And I have the option enabled to confirm when closing multiple tab. Mostly because I sometimes hit Ctrl-Q by accident. Because conveniently, the "nuke everything" shortcut is situated right between the two most used shortcuts: Ctrl-W and Ctrl-Tab... :|

So yeah, I happen to not be affected by this particular problem :P

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by bobthepanda on Sunday October 24, 2021 @04:28AM (#28975910)

I just want tree tabs.

Vertical tabs is so much more space efficient than horizontal.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by d3nj4l on Sunday October 24, 2021 @05:43AM (#28976308)

If you want a chromium skin with vertical tabs, both Edge and Vivaldi offer them built into the browser.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by ajvs on Sunday October 24, 2021 @07:27AM (#28976904)

Vertical tabs are not tree style tabs, the latter is far more flexible.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by d3nj4l on Sunday October 24, 2021 @07:44AM (#28977027)

Definitely, but GGP did mention vertical specifically :)

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by patall on Sunday October 24, 2021 @07:03AM (#28976742)

As does Firefox with the tree-style tabs extension.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by BiteCode_dev on Sunday October 24, 2021 @11:25AM (#28978762)

Unfortunalty it requires manual css entry to hide the horizontal tabs.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by skohan on Sunday October 24, 2021 @04:04AM (#28975802)

I don't use containers because they require a mozilla account

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by vord1080 on Sunday October 24, 2021 @04:08AM (#28975825)

They don't? I've gone as far as disabling all account functionality with about:config and am using containers right now.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by skohan on Sunday October 24, 2021 @04:31AM (#28975925)

Ok maybe it changed or maybe I misunderstood something. I wanted to try this a year or so ago and that was the impression I got.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by d3nj4l on Sunday October 24, 2021 @05:43AM (#28976310)

I've been using containers for years- since at least 2019 - and I've never had a Mozilla account.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by skohan on Sunday October 24, 2021 @07:35AM (#28976957)

This would have been around the time containers were first announced. But again maybe I misunderstood something.

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Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i... by prox on Sunday October 24, 2021 @04:06AM (#28975809)

Pretty sure they don’t. I use them all the time, no account.

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