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100% agree, I held out for so long before being forced to upgrade my Firefox because losing multi-row was like cutting off a leg. I don't know why there isn't a

100% agree, I held out for so long before being forced to upgrade my Firefox because losing multi-row was like cutting off a leg. I don't know why there isn't a simple checkbox to make tabs create new rows, if I don't like the loss of space, I'll close tabs, but now I can't seen what tabs are open because of these dumb left-right arrows and no space! I miss Tab Mix Plus!

yoodenvranx 9y ago
You can use this as a base for your own multi-row-tabs experiments: https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/7dclp7/multirow_tabs_in_ff57/ https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/7dclp7/multirow... I use a modified version of this and I am kinda happy. With a real extension it could be much better but for now at least it's better than the standard tab bar. If anyone has a better guide/config: Please post it here!
- wvenable 9y ago
  I'm using some modification of that get to get multi-row tabs -- not ideal but it works. I'm no longer even sure which is the final version of it. There are some unfortunate quirks with it.
  - yoodenvranx 9y ago
    Did you manage to enable scrolling of the mouse wheel to switch tabs?
    - wvenable 9y ago
      No. :( I also started looking into using CSS grids to make the tab sizing better but that created it's own problems. I need to spend more time working on it.
- MiddleEndian 9y ago
  There are other tab behvaiors that TabMixPlus offers including going to the last used tab on close, open in foreground tab in the context menu for links, scroll wheel to cycle through tabs, and some other things I take for granted and then get disoriented when I use FF57. Without those, it's painful. I will stick to the older Firefox (or maybe an alternative like Waterfox) until it becomes impossible to use new sites with it, or if somebody (myself included) reimplements these features in a way compatible with FF57.
  - yoodenvranx 9y ago
    > scroll wheel to cycle through tabs, This is the single most infuriating thing for me and I just don't understand why this is not a standard option, especially since it works perfectly fine by default on Chrome!
    - catach 9y ago
      Probably because it's used for scrolling the tab strip when the amount of tabs is so high that their width stops shrinking and further overflowing tabs are clipped from the strip area. Relatedly, if you use Tree Style Tab there's an extending extension that adds proper mouse wheel scrolling: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab-mouse-wheel/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
glenneroo 9y ago
I wasn't even aware of multi-row tabs because I was still using Chrome, which dynamically resizes the tabs until they just show the icon, which usually is sufficient to know which tab is what. Now, in Quantum the minimum tab size is HUGE in comparison, showing the first ~5 letters. Instead of resizing smaller, I have to use click the arrows left/right which change from light gray to white (barely noticeable) when tabs are hidden. I've been using Quantum daily since the release and I'm really fighting to not switch back to Chrome (and don't even get me started about the LastPass extension bugs/missing features).

yoodenvranx 9y ago

You can use this as a base for your own multi-row-tabs experiments: https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/7dclp7/multirow_tabs_in_ff57/ https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/7dclp7/multirow... I use a modified version of this and I am kinda happy. With a real extension it could be much better but for now at least it's better than the standard tab bar. If anyone has a better guide/config: Please post it here!

wvenable 9y ago
I'm using some modification of that get to get multi-row tabs -- not ideal but it works. I'm no longer even sure which is the final version of it. There are some unfortunate quirks with it.
- yoodenvranx 9y ago
  Did you manage to enable scrolling of the mouse wheel to switch tabs?
  - wvenable 9y ago
    No. :( I also started looking into using CSS grids to make the tab sizing better but that created it's own problems. I need to spend more time working on it.
MiddleEndian 9y ago
There are other tab behvaiors that TabMixPlus offers including going to the last used tab on close, open in foreground tab in the context menu for links, scroll wheel to cycle through tabs, and some other things I take for granted and then get disoriented when I use FF57. Without those, it's painful. I will stick to the older Firefox (or maybe an alternative like Waterfox) until it becomes impossible to use new sites with it, or if somebody (myself included) reimplements these features in a way compatible with FF57.
- yoodenvranx 9y ago
  > scroll wheel to cycle through tabs, This is the single most infuriating thing for me and I just don't understand why this is not a standard option, especially since it works perfectly fine by default on Chrome!
  - catach 9y ago
    Probably because it's used for scrolling the tab strip when the amount of tabs is so high that their width stops shrinking and further overflowing tabs are clipped from the strip area. Relatedly, if you use Tree Style Tab there's an extending extension that adds proper mouse wheel scrolling: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab-mouse-wheel/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

glenneroo 9y ago

I wasn't even aware of multi-row tabs because I was still using Chrome, which dynamically resizes the tabs until they just show the icon, which usually is sufficient to know which tab is what. Now, in Quantum the minimum tab size is HUGE in comparison, showing the first ~5 letters. Instead of resizing smaller, I have to use click the arrows left/right which change from light gray to white (barely noticeable) when tabs are hidden. I've been using Quantum daily since the release and I'm really fighting to not switch back to Chrome (and don't even get me started about the LastPass extension bugs/missing features).