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Re:Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about by _HMCB_ on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:43PM (#32919670)
Agreed. Especially on iOS has it become obtrusive. Form inputs being obscured by mini pop-ups. I could go on.

I’m waiting for the release of the new macOS and I’m going to evaluate using the native implementation and ditching 1P.

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Re:Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about by pasc1878 on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @08:21AM (#32923972)
The promlem with using apple password management on macos is that I need vertical tabs. Only vivaldi and Firefox provide them now and they don't use the macos key chain
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Re:Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about by _HMCB_ on Friday September 23, 2022 @05:55PM (#32957580)
What do you mean by vertical tabs?
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Re:Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about by pasc1878 on Saturday September 24, 2022 @03:27AM (#32960418)
The tabs are to the side rather than along the top.

This allows you to see the text in the tab when you have several tabs open.

Ideally tabs should be indented so you can see which tab you linked the page from.

The best implementation is the Firefox extension Tree Style tab https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

But simpler vertical tabs are on Vivaldi, OmniWeb which had them since the mid 1990s but unfortunately has not kept up with allowing other extensions, Opera used to have them when it was not Chrome. Chrome had them at one stage but reading the issues on that the developers really showed a complete lack of understanding.

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Re:Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about by _HMCB_ on Saturday September 24, 2022 @08:30PM (#32967875)
Gotcha. Thanks for clearing that up. And yes, the indentation of tabs is actually a good idea.

Although, iOS has tab groups now. I rarely use them because the menu is out of sight so I forget. But on macOS they’re convenient for when I’m researching a topic.

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