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I think part of the problem is that Firefox doesn't have flexible, high quality tabs. Vertical tabs, tab trees etc were really popular extensions. Personally I

I think part of the problem is that Firefox doesn't have flexible, high quality tabs. Vertical tabs, tab trees etc were really popular extensions. Personally I'd be happy to see Firefox have tab feature chrome natively has: - Scroll wheel to move between tabs (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1285812 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1285812) - Ctrl+1 (2, 3, ...) to jump to a tab. Ctrl+0 to jump to the last tab. [Edit: This works with Alt, nvm!] - Multi-select tab management (Ctrl+Click, Shift+Click to select, drag, snap and move multiple tabs) Back when Firefox initially got a lot of market share, its killer feature was tabs. It almost feels like they forgot that :(

glandium 9y ago
Alt+1, Alt+2, etc. jump to a tab in Firefox. Alt+9 is the last tab.
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- scrollaway 9y ago
  Thanks!
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noisem4ker 9y ago
Chrome parity would be good, but I think that with little effort Mozilla could make a tremendous improvement: - Multiple-row tab bar. Such an obvious improvement over tabs scrolling off the screen sides or squashing them like Chrome does, I don't know why it's not being considered. It's already been done by Tab Mix Plus (or was it Classic Theme Restorer?). They only need to copy it and polish it a little.
- baby 9y ago
  It's not been considered because Tree Style Tab just is just the best solution to all these problems.
  - thom_nic 9y ago
    People keep mentioning tree-style tab but I don't see how that's an alternative to TMP's multiple tab rows. Personally I don't find tree-style tabs appealing at all because (1) I usually have few pages open on the same domain, but I have many pages open on different domains. And (2) I don't want a vertical column of content width lost to a sidebar. Limiting tabs to a single row per window is awful for usability.
    - baby 9y ago
      You should try tree style tabs for a few days
    - wtallis 9y ago
      > And (2) I don't want a vertical column of content width lost to a sidebar. You have to understand that this is a pretty unusual concern. Most of the world struggles with screens with aspect ratios optimized for watching TV, making vertical space very precious but leaving plenty of excess horizontal space that cannot be effectively used by the majority of web pages that only use a single column of text.
      - thom_nic 9y ago
        > Most of the world struggles with screens with aspect ratios optimized for watching TV ... You are right about that. I use two external monitors, one of which is rotated 90°. Guess which one I keep my browser window on? :)
- oblio 9y ago
  Tab Mix Plus.
submeta 9y ago
On a Mac: Cmd + 1, Cmd+2, etc + Cmd+9 for last tab
rat87 9y ago
Chrome tabs sort of suck, they shrink down to no text if you have too many, firefox has a minumim size of tab and lets you scroll the ones that are visible at a time. Ctrl+1 (2, 3, ...) to jump to a tab. works for me, Ctrl+0 doesn't
- Vinnl 9y ago
  It's Ctrl+9 (on Windows, Alt+9 on Linux at least), rather than Ctrl+0.
Symen 9y ago
> Multi-select tab management (Ctrl+Click, Shift+Click to select, drag, snap and move multiple tabs) You could try the Multiple Tab Handler[1] extension. It seems a bit clunky and limited if you use it alone, but it integrates well with Tree Style Tabs [2]. Note that you could open the vertical tabs sidebar when you need to manage tabs and close it right after. You can also disable the "tree" feature of tree style tabs. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-handler/ https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-han... [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

glandium 9y ago

Alt+1, Alt+2, etc. jump to a tab in Firefox. Alt+9 is the last tab.

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scrollaway 9y ago
Thanks!

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noisem4ker 9y ago

Chrome parity would be good, but I think that with little effort Mozilla could make a tremendous improvement: - Multiple-row tab bar. Such an obvious improvement over tabs scrolling off the screen sides or squashing them like Chrome does, I don't know why it's not being considered. It's already been done by Tab Mix Plus (or was it Classic Theme Restorer?). They only need to copy it and polish it a little.

baby 9y ago
It's not been considered because Tree Style Tab just is just the best solution to all these problems.
- thom_nic 9y ago
  People keep mentioning tree-style tab but I don't see how that's an alternative to TMP's multiple tab rows. Personally I don't find tree-style tabs appealing at all because (1) I usually have few pages open on the same domain, but I have many pages open on different domains. And (2) I don't want a vertical column of content width lost to a sidebar. Limiting tabs to a single row per window is awful for usability.
  - baby 9y ago
    You should try tree style tabs for a few days
  - wtallis 9y ago
    > And (2) I don't want a vertical column of content width lost to a sidebar. You have to understand that this is a pretty unusual concern. Most of the world struggles with screens with aspect ratios optimized for watching TV, making vertical space very precious but leaving plenty of excess horizontal space that cannot be effectively used by the majority of web pages that only use a single column of text.
    - thom_nic 9y ago
      > Most of the world struggles with screens with aspect ratios optimized for watching TV ... You are right about that. I use two external monitors, one of which is rotated 90°. Guess which one I keep my browser window on? :)
oblio 9y ago
Tab Mix Plus.

submeta 9y ago

On a Mac: Cmd + 1, Cmd+2, etc + Cmd+9 for last tab

rat87 9y ago

Chrome tabs sort of suck, they shrink down to no text if you have too many, firefox has a minumim size of tab and lets you scroll the ones that are visible at a time. Ctrl+1 (2, 3, ...) to jump to a tab. works for me, Ctrl+0 doesn't

Vinnl 9y ago
It's Ctrl+9 (on Windows, Alt+9 on Linux at least), rather than Ctrl+0.

Symen 9y ago

> Multi-select tab management (Ctrl+Click, Shift+Click to select, drag, snap and move multiple tabs) You could try the Multiple Tab Handler[1] extension. It seems a bit clunky and limited if you use it alone, but it integrates well with Tree Style Tabs [2]. Note that you could open the vertical tabs sidebar when you need to manage tabs and close it right after. You can also disable the "tree" feature of tree style tabs. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-handler/ https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-han... [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/