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Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer by coldpie on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @10:10AM (#36772553)
Just curious, what does that UI look like with 1,000 tabs open? Isn't it just like, one pixel per tab, or a scrollbar 50 times wider than your monitor? Is that actually useful?
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Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer by twic on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @10:13AM (#36772596)
That may be a reference to this classic Firefox extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

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Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer by CWuestefeld on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @10:41AM (#36773154)
If it weren't for TreeStyleTab, the browser would be barely usable for me. This is the biggest reason that I won't use Chrome at all, and stay away from Edge.
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Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer by seba_dos1 on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @10:22AM (#36772789)
My browser looks very similar to this: https://framagit.org/ariasuni/tabcenter-reborn/-/wikis/theme...

Tab list usability remains pretty much the same regardless of how many tabs are open.

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Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer by AndroidKitKat on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:39PM (#36776390)
The handy part about Firefox, unlike Chrome, will shrink tabs to a minimum width and then make them a horizontally scrolling list. I am somewhat of a tab hoarder (I also keep browser windows on vertical monitors), so using Chrome, where it would shrink tabs more and more until there's nothing but a sliver, wouldn't work. Below are screenshots of examples. Firefox keeps things usable; Chrome not so much. (I also know it isn't 1000 tabs, nor is it close to the amount I keep open on my work laptop).

Firefox: https://yld.moe/raw/nVE.png

Chrome: https://yld.moe/raw/vu8.png

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Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer by efreak on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:48PM (#36779554)
If this is the only thing stopping you from using Chrome (ie you'd prefer to use Chrome), this might help. https://www.ghacks.net/2022/08/29/how-to-set-a-minimum-tab-w...
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Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer by AndroidKitKat on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @07:43AM (#36784813)
I was not aware of this, I will probably check this out on my Windows machine, since I've had a nasty bug where Firefox will decide to just use ALL of my GPU resources, crashing whatever game I am playing. Very annoying bug and I should probably take the time to report it, but every time I encounter it I'm usually focused on my game.

Thanks.

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