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Made a jump to Firefox as primary browser on macOS this month. My setup involves heavy use of the new containers feature and a tree-style vertical tab panel, wh

Made a jump to Firefox as primary browser on macOS this month. My setup involves heavy use of the new containers feature and a tree-style vertical tab panel, which AFAIK is unique to Firefox and offers neat visual browsing history. Extension rundown: — kesselborn’s Conex, a Spotlight-like quick container switcher/tab finder. It’s set to auto-hide tabs not in the current container, and I use it to routinely create one-off containers for specific tasks — piro’s Tree Style Tab, with a workaround setting to make it play well with Conex and a couple of custom styling rules — MarsCat’s Switch Container, which allows to re-open a tab in another container (used with caution) What unblocked the switch for me: — There’s now a working tree-style tabs extension in Quantum — The new Web Authentication API removes the need for Keychain integration in the long run I’m wary of getting too used to a heavily customized setup, and am still figuring out the best way to back up my Firefox profile. Previously I relied mostly on stock Safari and Chrome, which is still great for its developer’s tools.

kodablah 9y ago
> tree-style vertical tab panel, which AFAIK is unique to Firefox For the major browsers, yes. Some Chromium off-shoots have them though.
- strogonoff 9y ago
  I stand corrected, also I should’ve added “on Macs”. I’ve been keeping an eye on Doogie[0], but its maintainer doesn’t have the resources to maintain another build. Curious if anyone can weigh in with similar alternatives available on macOS. [0] https://cretz.github.io/doogie/ https://cretz.github.io/doogie/
  - kodablah 9y ago
    You're talking to the maintainer :-) Yeah, I don't use Apple products so looking for someone to do the work. In the meantime, I am not too familiar with mac alternatives, but these days CEF, QtWebEngine, etc aren't that difficult to use if you want to roll your own (mine is just Qt + CEF).
    - strogonoff 9y ago
      Hey, that’s unexpected and awesome! I hope to be able to help with the build after I upgrade to latest OS version. Concepts on which Doogie is built sound very reasonable and I’m pretty sure they inspired my current setup. Native approach to bubbles vs. workspaces is better than shoehorning containers and tree-style tabs into that with a bunch of extensions in Firefox.
gnicholas 9y ago
Does using containers improve performance with many tabs open?
- strogonoff 9y ago
  Can’t say for sure—haven’t used modern Firefox without containers. Last time was years ago, pre-Quantum, so it wouldn’t be a fair comparison. Compared to other browsers, if anyone’s interested: There was no perceived performance hit after migrating 60+ tabs from Safari and Chrome to Firefox. Browser startup time is definitely faster. For now it seems I no longer have to think about the number of tabs I have open. I usually have fewer than a dozen tabs in any given container. With Conex, tabs in other containers don’t seem to get loaded unless I switch to them (tabs not in current container are hidden).
priccis 9y ago
I guess you are already using uBlockO in advanced mode to block all 3rd-party scripts and frames by default?

kodablah 9y ago

> tree-style vertical tab panel, which AFAIK is unique to Firefox For the major browsers, yes. Some Chromium off-shoots have them though.

strogonoff 9y ago
I stand corrected, also I should’ve added “on Macs”. I’ve been keeping an eye on Doogie[0], but its maintainer doesn’t have the resources to maintain another build. Curious if anyone can weigh in with similar alternatives available on macOS. [0] https://cretz.github.io/doogie/ https://cretz.github.io/doogie/
- kodablah 9y ago
  You're talking to the maintainer :-) Yeah, I don't use Apple products so looking for someone to do the work. In the meantime, I am not too familiar with mac alternatives, but these days CEF, QtWebEngine, etc aren't that difficult to use if you want to roll your own (mine is just Qt + CEF).
  - strogonoff 9y ago
    Hey, that’s unexpected and awesome! I hope to be able to help with the build after I upgrade to latest OS version. Concepts on which Doogie is built sound very reasonable and I’m pretty sure they inspired my current setup. Native approach to bubbles vs. workspaces is better than shoehorning containers and tree-style tabs into that with a bunch of extensions in Firefox.

gnicholas 9y ago

Does using containers improve performance with many tabs open?

strogonoff 9y ago
Can’t say for sure—haven’t used modern Firefox without containers. Last time was years ago, pre-Quantum, so it wouldn’t be a fair comparison. Compared to other browsers, if anyone’s interested: There was no perceived performance hit after migrating 60+ tabs from Safari and Chrome to Firefox. Browser startup time is definitely faster. For now it seems I no longer have to think about the number of tabs I have open. I usually have fewer than a dozen tabs in any given container. With Conex, tabs in other containers don’t seem to get loaded unless I switch to them (tabs not in current container are hidden).

priccis 9y ago

I guess you are already using uBlockO in advanced mode to block all 3rd-party scripts and frames by default?