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Vertical tabs without nesting (trees) is such a wasted opportunity. Nesting lets you close/minimise/etc a group of a related tabs, eg. all the search results yo

• nathan_phoenix 3y ago
  Can also recommend Sideberry. Amazing addon!
• gnicholas 3y ago
  Brave currently offers groups, which can be minimized to achieve some of the effect you mention. But like you, I'm hoping they bring true nesting in the future!
• gautier_ 3y ago
  The only thing those Firefox extension lack is the ability to hide native tabs (I understand that this is a limitation of Firefox extension APIs). You have to manually modify your userChrome.css to do so.
  • zanellato19 3y ago
    You mean hiding the top bar, right?
    • ktm5j 3y ago
      Yes, that's what they're talking about. It ends up wasting space to have your vertical tab sidebar without the ability to hide the default tab bar at the top of the window.
  • yomlica8 3y ago
    I swear they said they were going to add hiding the top tab bar back in as a native option back in 2017, but I'm still using the userChrome.css hack today.
    • lopis 3y ago
      There's a long bugzilla thread since 2017 exactly for this. It has a some activity over the years, but was never prioritized. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332447 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332447
• nsonha 3y ago
  I used to think like this but now that I'm no longer a student with too much time on my hand, I find features that allow up to a hundred of tabs detrimental to my productivity. Simply vertical tabs strike the right balance.
• ubercore 3y ago
  Arc does this as well, I think.
  • infotropy 3y ago
    It does. arc’s my daily driver. Best vertical tabs implementation I’ve run across (for me).
• cropcirclbureau 3y ago
  Sideberry is fantastic. Not only is it a great replacement for Tree Tabs, I've also found it to be a better alternative of Simple Tab Groups. With `userChrome` entries to auto-hide Sideberry and the native FF tabs, it's improved the web experience on my smallish laptop screen tremendously.
  • avnigo 3y ago
    Agreed! Here's my current `userChrome.css` to hide the tab bar when Sidebery is open, IIRC adapted from their repo because theirs didn't work fully for me. Admittedly this is hacked together, it was mostly just trial and error, but it works! #main-window #TabsToolbar { height: 40px !important; overflow: hidden; transition: height 0.2s ease-in 0s !important; } #main-window[titlepreface*="‏‏‎ ‎"] #TabsToolbar { height: 0 !important; min-height: 0 !important; } #main-window[titlepreface*="‏‏‎ ‎"] #tabbrowser-tabs { position: fixed; z-index: 0 !important; } #main-window[titlepreface*="‏‏‎ ‎"] .tab-stack { visibility: hidden; } #main-window[titlepreface*="‏‏‎ ‎"] #toolbar { min-height: 0; } #main-window[titlepreface*="‏‏‎ ‎"] #sidebar-header { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; } #main-window[titlepreface*="‏‏‎ ‎"] #titlebar { visibility: hidden; height: 0px; } To make it work only when Sidebery is open, make sure you add a preface value in the Sidebery settings and use the same value in the css above; in my case I just use an invisible character. Couple it with Ctrl-E keybind to toggle the Sidebery panel, and it's been a big quality of life improvement for me.
• paranoidxprod 3y ago
  Just installed and configured Sidebery and after a few minutes I already feel like it completely outclasses TST for Firefox. Thanks for the recommendation!
• PurpleRamen 3y ago
  > BTW, I was a TST user for many years, and recently switched to Sidebery, which seems to do the same and more, but is a bit more polished. Doesn't really match my experience. In which ways is it more polished?
  • morsch 3y ago
    I think the preferences are a bit easier to understand, and I didn't have to install an add-on for an add-on to have mouse wheel support. I'm sure there's more, but it's been a few months and I don't quite remember. TST remains great, though, very versatile and extensible.