Re:Firefox and Flux: A New, Beautiful Browser is Coming
by kawa on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @04:04AM
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I really ask myself why they insist to put the tabs on top. With todays widescreen-displays, putting them left or right makes more sense for most use cases (at least with FF its possible to get this via add-on). OTOH they try to get rid of every pixel to get a bit more space while there are lots of at the left and at the right. Do all developers only work on 13" laptops today?
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Re:Firefox and Flux: A New, Beautiful Browser is Coming
by m_mueller on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @04:18AM
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Absolutely. Having the tab placement customizable is something I miss from the Opera.
Re:Firefox and Flux: A New, Beautiful Browser is Coming
by nicolasp on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @05:01AM
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You should check out Tree Style Tab [1]. I always have a lot of tabs open and I can't live without it. It lets you choose where to put the tab bar, among other settings.
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
Re:Firefox and Flux: A New, Beautiful Browser is Coming
by roryokane on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @06:46PM
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It would be better to choose a simpler add-on, such as the ones recommended by the Tree Style Tab developer at http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_treestyletab.html.en, in the section “Similar or Related Extensions”.
> I want a simple vertical tab, without tree features.
> Vertical Tabs (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/108862/), VertTabbar (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/8045) or Vertigo (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/1343) can do it.
Tree Style Tab has lots of bugs for me, like permanently hiding the navigation bar after I exit full-screen, and scrolling all the way to the bottom of the tab list whenever I restore a closed tab. I still use it because I love being able to organize my tabs hierarchically, but if someone only wants vertical tabs, they should choose a simpler add-on that is less likely to have bugs.