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You Can Now Try Firefox’s Vertical Tabs (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 10 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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  • Firefox Nightly 131 introduces vertical tabs and an improved sidebar, enhancing tab management and multitasking for users with many open tabs.
  • The vertical tabs feature, similar to Microsoft Edge, keeps tabs organized on the left-hand side and can be customized via Firefox Labs settings.
  • Additional features include AI chatbot integration in the sidebar and ongoing development of tab grouping and profile management tools.
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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looking forward to this one. I use vertical tabs on Edge at work and it's very useful on wide screens.

Hope they remembered to add a bottom to collapse/expand the tab bar.

Now we only need tab groups and we'll be all set.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I feel like I heard something about tab groups in nightly a while back? I'm using a tab group extension but it's not the same.

I remember using vertical tabs in Opera back in the day and feeling like a king. Can't wait to test this out

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

yeah i heard about tab groups too, idk how thats going (i dont use nightly, though i really should)

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 10 months ago

I don't use nightly either. I probably should too 😆

[–] TwinTusks@bitforged.space 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't quite see the lure of vertical tabs.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nowadays most websites leaves half of your horizontal space empty on high resolution monitors, so you have a lot of unused real estate. Verticals tabs can also fit in more tabs while showing tab title and can implement features like collapsible tabs.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago

Tiling WM though?

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

I do, I have a 2K display with lots of horizontal space. Vertical tabs allow me to better group and see tab names in vertical space rather than trying to line up truncated tab names on a horizontal axis.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh, does this replace Tree Style Tabs?

[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago

Rather than replace, I'd guess it could be an alternative. The best part of it will be the ability to natively disable the top tab bar instead of needing a janky userchrome css hack that doesn't even fully work.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Additional features include AI chatbot integration

That's why I was against the AI integration for the image text-summary in the PDF. I knew Mozilla would not stop there and integrate more AI tools into the browser. As much as I love Firefox, as a user from version 1 days, this AI integration without an option to turn it off is a reason to switch... But I didn't found an alternative yet (I'm well aware of all the browsers).

[–] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think it can be disabled, in the screenshot from the articles there is a "AI chatbots" toggle

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I used the wrong word. I meant it can't be uninstalled (like an addon). It's just part of the browser. If this was an optional addon for people to uninstall or replace if they want, it would be fine. It's not the first time Mozilla did that, even outside of Firefox too.

[–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure LibreWolf will ship without the Ai. They normally remove invasive stuff before compiling rather than disabling it in a config later.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Until it re-enables itself like so many toggles in Firefox do after updates.

[–] Dymonika@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How about Mull?

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's on my list. One of my criteria is, it has to be in the official repository for Archlinux. And Mullvad-Browser, like many of the other Firefox based browsers, are not.

[–] Dymonika@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Weird. I wonder why.

[–] firewood010@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do we have tab groups yet?

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Not yet. They're supposedly "working on it". This is the feature I'm most looking forward to.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

So far it's not perfect yet, but I already switched to it. Very nice.

[–] grandma@sh.itjust.works -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is awesome, now if they switch to a JS engine that isn't slow and buggy on my laptop I have 0 reasons to use anything chromium-based anymore

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would much prefer they not become more chromified than they switching to chrome's JS engine.

[–] grandma@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

I'm not saying they should switch to v8. Ideally they'd make their own performant JS engine but I doubt they actually have the resources for that. I'm just wishing for a browser that's actually good on all fronts even though it realistically cannot exist