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The Tree Style Tab extension[1] is wonderful for "keeping tabs" on our modern "to forget" lists (unclosed tabs). Putting tabs on the left is also a good screen

The Tree Style Tab extension[1] is wonderful for "keeping tabs" on our modern "to forget" lists (unclosed tabs). Putting tabs on the left is also a good screen real estate trade for wide aspect ratio screens. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

Kim_Bruning 4y ago
Tree Style Tabs is absolutely vital to me, I don't understand how people can live without that extension. The other thing I use a lot is firefox's readability builtin (it's not an extension), which removes all the cruft and *walls from websites and makes them... readable in one click. These two together are killer apps for me. I might consider switching to another browser (firefox isn't exactly the paragon of virtue it used to be either anymore), but the new browser would need to have these two features.
- silon42 4y ago
  I used to use it, until I wrote my own vertical tabs extension, which acceptably handles thousands of tabs...
  - noloblo 4y ago
    Is there a link to this extension for your own vertical tabs
  - throwaway290 4y ago
    Safari has vertical tabs natively now. The interesting part is hierarchical tabs
    - kiliankoe 4y ago
      Where does Safari have vertical tabs? I've been using Orion for a while now mainly for that feature, a WebKit browser with well working vertical tabs.
      - rovr138 4y ago
        View > Sidebar On the left, it should show the number of tabs in the current window. If you click on that, it lists the tabs.
        kiliankoe 4y ago
        That's cool, thanks! But there's no way to hide the normal tab bar, is there?
        throwaway290 4y ago
        Not yet but I hope Apple brings it back. It used to be possible
    - Kim_Bruning 4y ago
      It's the hierarchical tabs that I need. If you are traversing large hypertexts you need to keep track of where you are and where you were. Middle-clicking to open-in-new-tab together with Tree-Style-Tabs is incredibly useful in this scenario. You can rapidly open a large number of potentially-interesting links in tabs, and then weed out the ones you don't need just as rapidly. Then wash, rinse, repeat. It's an assembly line approach.
- rrishi 4y ago
  Thankful for the readability builtin.
OJFord 4y ago
I use Sidebery, which is similar, but adds features like 'panels' (essentially switch between sets of tree-style tabs in the sidebar) that integrates with Firefox 'containers', so you can have a 'work' vs. 'personal' panel&container for example. The tabs being listed vertically is by far the most important aspect to me though, I previously used something (that stopped being maintained) that did that without being 'tree-style'. Nesting is probably not what I wanted as often as it is.
- rrishi 4y ago
  Interesting integration of panels and containers. Definitely going to try it.
kps 4y ago
As someone who uses wide screens to hold multiple page-shaped windows, sidebars are a no-go. I really like Chrome's recent addition of what they call tab groups; anyone know of equivalent functionality for Firefox?
- Izkata 4y ago
  Dunno how similar it is, but there is Simple Tab Groups: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-groups/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr... Also there's a bunch of userChrome css people have shared for Tree Style Tabs that makes the sidebar collapse and auto-expand on mouseover so it doesn't take much space. It's not part of the extension itself because they lost access back with the Firefox Quantum release and I guess no new API was ever made.
rrishi 4y ago
Thanks for the suggestion ! I'm giving Sidebery a shot first. If I'm not a fan, I'll give Tree Style a try.

Kim_Bruning 4y ago

Tree Style Tabs is absolutely vital to me, I don't understand how people can live without that extension. The other thing I use a lot is firefox's readability builtin (it's not an extension), which removes all the cruft and *walls from websites and makes them... readable in one click. These two together are killer apps for me. I might consider switching to another browser (firefox isn't exactly the paragon of virtue it used to be either anymore), but the new browser would need to have these two features.

silon42 4y ago
I used to use it, until I wrote my own vertical tabs extension, which acceptably handles thousands of tabs...
- noloblo 4y ago
  Is there a link to this extension for your own vertical tabs
- throwaway290 4y ago
  Safari has vertical tabs natively now. The interesting part is hierarchical tabs
  - kiliankoe 4y ago
    Where does Safari have vertical tabs? I've been using Orion for a while now mainly for that feature, a WebKit browser with well working vertical tabs.
    - rovr138 4y ago
      View > Sidebar On the left, it should show the number of tabs in the current window. If you click on that, it lists the tabs.
      - kiliankoe 4y ago
        That's cool, thanks! But there's no way to hide the normal tab bar, is there?
        throwaway290 4y ago
        Not yet but I hope Apple brings it back. It used to be possible
  - Kim_Bruning 4y ago
    It's the hierarchical tabs that I need. If you are traversing large hypertexts you need to keep track of where you are and where you were. Middle-clicking to open-in-new-tab together with Tree-Style-Tabs is incredibly useful in this scenario. You can rapidly open a large number of potentially-interesting links in tabs, and then weed out the ones you don't need just as rapidly. Then wash, rinse, repeat. It's an assembly line approach.
rrishi 4y ago
Thankful for the readability builtin.

OJFord 4y ago

I use Sidebery, which is similar, but adds features like 'panels' (essentially switch between sets of tree-style tabs in the sidebar) that integrates with Firefox 'containers', so you can have a 'work' vs. 'personal' panel&container for example. The tabs being listed vertically is by far the most important aspect to me though, I previously used something (that stopped being maintained) that did that without being 'tree-style'. Nesting is probably not what I wanted as often as it is.

rrishi 4y ago
Interesting integration of panels and containers. Definitely going to try it.

kps 4y ago

As someone who uses wide screens to hold multiple page-shaped windows, sidebars are a no-go. I really like Chrome's recent addition of what they call tab groups; anyone know of equivalent functionality for Firefox?

Izkata 4y ago
Dunno how similar it is, but there is Simple Tab Groups: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-groups/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr... Also there's a bunch of userChrome css people have shared for Tree Style Tabs that makes the sidebar collapse and auto-expand on mouseover so it doesn't take much space. It's not part of the extension itself because they lost access back with the Firefox Quantum release and I guess no new API was ever made.

rrishi 4y ago

Thanks for the suggestion ! I'm giving Sidebery a shot first. If I'm not a fan, I'll give Tree Style a try.