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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I searched for the keywords "vert" and "tabs" and found nothing.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

its in the works, they have confirmed that vertical tabs are coming

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right after HL3 will be released.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Its been a while for that classic

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sidebery is an excellent extension for that. I really doubt Mozilla is going to make one as good as that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I used Sideberry for a while, but I tried out one called Tab Stash and I think it's much better overall than Sideberry personally

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you have experience with tree style tabs extensions also?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Different person, but I started using vertical tabs a few weeks ago and gave both extensions a try for a few days.

I'm using Sideberry now. It seems more polished to me with lots more features. I particularly like how well it integrates with Firefox containers and that you can create tab groups, which are essentially tabs for tabs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, sidebery is much much better

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there an extension to drag out tabs seamlessly into another window like you can do with chromium.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't this already built in?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's in the nightly builds, although when they announced it they (bizarrely) received a lot of hate for it, so I'm not sure they'll continue development.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would people hate on them for adding a commonly requested feature?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have no idea. I just remember the thread where they announced it there was a lot of vitriol over it. I remember a couple were due to it "not being original", which seems like an insane reason to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should probably open an issue about this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is widely talked about, I'm sure someone has.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why? Why not an extra bar like all other browsers? I suppose that is possible too? But idk.

I would really like to get some shortcuts for some sites.

Also, I think tab groups are way more important. SimpleTabGroups is constantly losing its state, containers, pinned bookmarks, its a total pain.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why?

Because It is better for reading on websites. Normally there is just a ton of space to the sides of the text, and it would make more sense to actually use it.

Why not an extra bar like all other browsers?

What... do you mean? They have the top bar like other browsers. A lot of other browsers have vertical tabs now too.

I would really like to get some shortcuts for some sites.

Add them then?

Also, I think tab groups are way more important.

I never said they aren't. Also, they do have container tabs, they just hide it in about:config.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah these are 2 separate things, both important.

Horizontal tabs, in the hidden "compact" mode dont take up lots of space, less space than vertical ones.

A sidebar would conflict with vertical tabs I think. Like in Brave, where you can add just a few sites.

Tab containers are way more important than groups and a killer feature of FF.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Another security feature added is the blocking of downloading files from URLs that are on lists of potentially dangerous content.

Yeah, I'm not sure blocking HTTP downloads by default is a good idea, I mean many offices probably have some internal legacy HTTP only sites that nobody dares to touch, that are perfectly safe being HTTP (if you have hackers inside your network a simple intranet site spoofing is your least problem), and disabling this security option might have a lot of wider repercussions

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get it, but you're arguing in favour of negligent IT. If nobody dares to touch something, it is a liability.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would say he's arguing in favour of practicality

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

There's no good reason to be using :80 even internally.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Edge has started doing that too, whenever I download something from my Home Assistant instance while at home I have to rightclick and say that I really want to download it.

As long as such an option is available its not too bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's not just about that, people will be disabling the feature that is potentially beneficial to their security, disabling http downloads from http sites is just an extension of blocking http downloads from https sites

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wake me up when the popover API is in. Might be next version, nice!