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Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by buo on Thursday August 08, 2024 @11:30AM (#41192598)
I think the best vertical tabs implementation in firefox is Sidebery. The use of "panes" to group tabs is brilliant. Older versions were buggy, but version 5 has been rock solid for me.

https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery

Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by muwtyhg on Thursday August 08, 2024 @11:53AM (#41192876)
Another former Tree Style Tabs user, now on Sideberry with no regrets.

I am excited that FireFox is working this in by default so I don't have to keep fiddling with userChrome.css to get rid of the top tab bar.

Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by mikae1 on Thursday August 08, 2024 @12:28PM (#41193313)
Looks like we won't have nesting in Firefox's implementation which made it kinda pointless to me.
Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by bloopernova on Friday August 09, 2024 @10:44AM (#41202354)
So they've copied Edge's poor implementation of vertical tabs. Blech.

Hey, look on the bright side: maybe chromium will get vertical tabs soon!

Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by Izkata on Thursday August 08, 2024 @12:05PM (#41193011)
I've added commands to Tridactyl that expand/collapse the tabs I'm on in Tree Style Tabs, using their javascript API. Does Sidebery have anything like that?
Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by thisisabore on Thursday August 08, 2024 @12:03PM (#41192969)
Started using Sideberry over a year ago and have not looked back since. Very good stuff.
Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by sigio on Thursday August 08, 2024 @11:39AM (#41192706)
Can't agree more, have been using sidebery for about a month now, and even completely dropped chromium which I ran beside firefox for the last years to only running firefox with sideberry and container-tabs now.
Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by diggan on Thursday August 08, 2024 @11:51AM (#41192850)
I've been using vertical tabs (first TreeStyleTabs, now Sideberry for the last ~6 months) and I'm in the same boat.

Chrome is faster, snappier and works better on more websites I commonly use, but the fact that I cannot have "vertical tabs as trees" ruins the entire browser experience for me, so it's basically the only reason I use Firefox for the last decade or something.

Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday August 08, 2024 @12:08PM (#41193053)
Add NoScript and Firefox will be much faster than Chrome. It will make you aware of how much untrusted code poorly developed sites expect you to run on their behalf.
Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by diggan on Thursday August 08, 2024 @12:17PM (#41193149)
Well, turn off JavaScript in Chrome and you back to Chrome being faster. Turning off JS is obviously not a solution when the complaint is that (assuming the same amount of work) Chrome is faster for some JS.
Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday August 08, 2024 @12:24PM (#41193252)
NoScript doesn't turn off javascript. It allows you to selectively disable some scripts while whitelisting others. You can't use much of the modern web without JS but you can neuter the dozens of trackers and ad bloat some sites insist on running on your computer.
Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by diggan on Thursday August 08, 2024 @01:59PM (#41194401)
I'm well aware of what NoScript does, I'm already using it. It seems you're missing the point of the comparison.
Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by DavideNL on Friday August 09, 2024 @08:25AM (#41201149)
Running uBlock Origin in “Medium mode” [1] also does wonders (= blocking 3p-scripts and frames). It’s interesting to see how many websites work in this mode, and the amount of crap you’re not seeing. Websites load so much faster. And, you can then (permanently, or not) easily whitelist some specific domains like content providers, etc. while browsing.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...

Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by Groxx on Thursday August 08, 2024 @11:39AM (#41192716)
I switched to sideberry a while back, and yeah - very much agreed, it's leagues ahead of others in terms of base experience breadth (container tabs and whatnot are fully integrated) and customization options.

Their wiki also has a very simple and effective userChrome.css tweak to hide the top tab bar when the side panel is open. That's a rather crucial vertical space savings on a small laptop.

Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by adhamsalama on Thursday August 08, 2024 @11:55AM (#41192900)
Sidebery is amazing. I have been using it for more than a year now and I love it.
Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by slightwinder on Thursday August 08, 2024 @12:32PM (#41193368)
How do panes scale for many groups? Can you manage 20, 30 panes? Or does it become annoying at this amount?

Sidebery is nice, but it's missing an API allowing other addons to interact with it. This is a big benefit of Tree Style Tabs, especially as you can even exploit it as a user.

Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by buo on Thursday August 08, 2024 @06:25PM (#41197013)
I have 20 panes and it works fine.
Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by Todays10k on Friday August 09, 2024 @12:34AM (#41198796)
How have I not heard about this in the bajillion times I whined about tab groups?

I kinda dislike that Firefox only have one good option that involves completely hiding each group currently not in use, but it functioned ith their tab containers which made it worth the hassle.

If this does too, I'm switching permanently

Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by yonatan8070 on Monday August 12, 2024 @07:07AM (#41223163)
I use Sidebery, and I added some custom userChrome.css to have the sidebar collapse to only take up 36px, and expand on hover, absolutely love using it