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Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by rpncreator on Thursday August 08, 2024 @12:28PM (#41193317)
Unpopular opinion: Tab management in browsers originally addressed the shortcomings of OS window management (see Windows XP and IE6, and the original Google Chrome tiling capability replicated into Windows 10/11 OS window management.
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Re:Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightl... by kevincox on Thursday August 08, 2024 @07:58PM (#41197634)
I also share this opinion. I think we are in a local maximum with tabs. But getting out of it request a lot of coordination between browsers and each desktop environment so it is unlikely to ever happen. Maybe less portable browsers like GNOME Web or Safari that only "need" to deal with one desktop environment can manage it at some point.

https://kevincox.ca/2021/01/11/tabs-were-a-mistake/

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