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Sidebery – A Firefox extension for managing tabs and bookmarks in sidebar

174 points by BafS 3y ago

throwaway914 3y ago
Tab Stash is way cooler than this. I found Sidebery to be much faster/efficient than most of the tab extensions, but I love that I can group tabs and 'offload'/archive them with Tab Stash. The only thing missing from Tab Stash was the ability to see which tab is playing audio. I installed the Sound Control extension to list tabs playing audio for that. What's missing from EVERY tab extension is I just want the ability to show tabs in a tree view, like an ASCII art tree. They all do this indented, css-styled BS that doesn't look more compact or better. I just want an ASCII tree. Anyway, look at Tab Stash for another alternative.
- johnnyworker 3y ago
  Sidebery and Treestyle Tabs allow you to customize the CSS they use, so you can make them as compact as you want :)
- bradknowles 3y ago
  On top of Tab Stash, I want global `sort | uniq` for all my bookmarks and stashed tabs. A given URL should only ever be bookmarked or stashed once. Let me search for it if I need it again.
  - zelphirkalt 3y ago
    Sidebery lets you at least close duplicate tabs per "panel". Simply right click a panel and choose from the context menu.
  - anais9 3y ago
    I need to check out Tab Stash - while I'd played around with using TabFS for this use case, it was a little bit clunky. Totally agree with your point about global sort/unique which is the basis for my current bookmarking system of https://save.page/docs/saving https://save.page/docs/saving
- morsch 3y ago
  I don't do bookmarks, ie. long term archival of tabs, but I sometimes stash/set aside tabs by moving them to their own Sidebery tab. The sidebar itself is tabbed.
quesera 3y ago
Tabs on the side are a hugely important part of my workflow. I don't know how top-tabs people get through their days! Some browsers have side-tabs built in, but their implementation and/or UI is poor. Other browsers can't do side-tabs at all, even with extensions. Firefox is the only browser that allows extensions to do tabs on the side properly. And I've tried all of the extensions. Sidebery is the best presently, and the best so far.
- apocalyptic0n3 3y ago
  > I don't know how top-tabs people get through their days! In my case, I feel the opposite. Having the tabs on the side interrupts the browsing experience and annoys me. I personally do two things that probably makes it easier to live with horizontal tabs: 1. I habitually close tabs. If I'm at 10+, I'll quickly scan them and throw any that I might need later into the bookmark bar (if they aren't in a folder, it triggers me to check them again soon-ish). Then I just purge all tabs because having more than 10 is just a cluttered mess. This is also true in JetBrains, iTerm, Sublime, Finder, etc. 2. I don't fullscreen my browser. It usually only uses about 80% of my screen width, sometimes less. That provides much less incentive to use side tabs
BenFranklin100 3y ago
Sideberry also let’s you create ‘Tab Panels’ to sort tabs into different groupings. Panels can be thought of as separate windows for trees of tabs, but all within the same Firefox maim window. I use it when I’m researching a topic and want to sort tabs into subtopics. Works quite well. It also meshes well with Firefox Containers, another favorite Firefox feature of mine.
jerieljan 3y ago
I also use both Tab Stash and Sidebery. Tab Stash is really more for long-lasting / bookmarked tabs / handling various contexts in my mind and work to get back later. Sidebery on the other hand helps me manage what I currently have in mind and to juggle Multi-Account Containers in neat sections. That said, I've actually ended up using just Tab Stash because yeah, having too much on your Sidebery tree gets messy and now you have to deal with two sets of stashes, and yeah, unlike Tab Stash, Sidebery doesn't let you group them up into sections. My only complaint with Tab Stash? I wish it retained which Multi-Account Container was used when it stashed a tab. It'd be perfect if it did that. On a sidenote, I love that Sidebery lets me scroll through the tabs via scroll wheel. It's a thing I missed since I switched to a Mac because last time I checked, you could scroll through tabs on FF Linux but strangely it's not something you can do on Mac.
- ASalazarMX 3y ago
  Sidebery does let you group tabs. Select a few from the sidebar, right click, group, give the group a name, and optionally, collapse so it doesn't take space. Somehow it glitches and some groups can become undone, but fortunately I haven't seen that glitch in the last few months, it might be solved for good.
  - jazzyjackson 3y ago
    Thanks for pointing this out, just noticed I can move selected tabs to a new panel too, excellent. I'll add that collapsed groups can be nested.
jacknews 3y ago
There's also Tab Center Reborn with the ability to style it with CSS (eg I have my tabs most-recent-at-the-top)
johnnyworker 3y ago
For Tree Style Tabs there is TST Bookmarks Subpanel, so you can see bookmarks and open tabs at the same time.
- nextaccountic 3y ago
  Thanks! I have a highly customized TST installation so I'm hesitant in trying other extensions
  - johnnyworker 3y ago
    You'll like this then https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=tst https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=tst :) But from my experience trying out other extensions doing the same doesn't break anything. I think they all just go off on the tabs FF has open and do their own thing with it, IME you can install several and switch between them no problem (by switching what sidebar is shown).
paul_funyun 3y ago
Best firefox upgrade I've done lately is disabling all their "Enhanced Tracking Protection" features. Those are better done by adblock/ublock extensions and disabling them significantly improved the responsiveness and speed of the browser.
- freeCandy 3y ago
  You still need enhanced tracking protection for cookies.
- zelphirkalt 3y ago
  There are some things that uBlock Origin does not do, to prevent some fingerprinting. For example governing canvas and timer precision.
nextaccountic 3y ago
Do you have screenshots?
- sMarsIntruder 3y ago
  Came here to say the same thing. Opened the github repo, no screen whatsoever. Sad story.
  - chrismorgan 3y ago
    My belief, which happens to be distressingly controversial in this day and age since GitHub subverted and repurposed readme files: the GitHub repository actively shouldn’t have screenshots. A readme should have info about the project, building, that kind of thing, stuff that’s relevant to the source, and things like screenshots should be elsewhere (… and certainly not stored inside the repository, as is far too often done—major cause of repository bloat), on a marketing page or similar. In this case, this is the source code repository, as is traditional, and the project’s homepage is on AMO, so that’s where things like screenshots go, as they should in that model. The fault here is merely that the wrong URL was provided for the submission.
- BafS 3y ago
  You can find screenshots there: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
bryan0 3y ago
In TST I right-click to “delete tabs below this one” all the time. In sidebery I don’t think there is a way to do this?
- alphaddx 3y ago
  I used to use that feature on TST quite a bit. I was curious and SB does have that option, it's hidden away in settings, under Menu Editor > tabs
  - bryan0 3y ago
    Wow thanks for the tip! I’ll check for this next time I use it.
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chrismorgan 3y ago
Better link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
- rraghur 3y ago
  The one in AMO is v4 though... I install the rc from GitHub and it's miles ahead
tiltowait 3y ago
I'm a recent vertical tabs convert (in particular, tab trees). After just a week, it's very hard to live without it—especially at work, where I have a bajillion tabs open at any time, and I don't feel comfortable installing extensions that can read my bookmarks!
bitbang 3y ago
I use Tree Style Tab extension in combination with Simple Tab Groups extension. Allows having multiple side panel tab trees I can switch between.
lf-non 3y ago
Sideberry is a cool extension that I used for quite some time when FF was my primary browser. I have since switched to Vivaldi which has similar feature built in which works pretty well too.
beltsazar 3y ago
Can I migrate from TST to Sidebery without losing all my tabs with their tree structures?
- iamevn 3y ago
  I'm curious about this too, I use TST at home and it's gotten really bad with how many tabs I have and how slow it is. I use Sidebery at work and it seems much better.
- rebolek 3y ago
  I installed Sidebery and just switched from TST to Sidebery, it kept whole tree structure and there's easily accessible option (from Sidebery's top menu) to switch back to TST. The only problem so far I have with Sidebery is that it hasn't scrollbar on the left like TST but it seems that it's available in beta and should be included in new version. So far I'm happy with it, I like how the text color on tabs is fading with time so you can see which tabs you visited recently.
  - Jnr 3y ago
    On Firefox extension site it says "Last updated a year ago (Aug 28, 2022)". The beta has been dangling on github for half a year. I'm not installing a beta version which doesn't come from official site where at least some sort of review exists.
gnuyent 3y ago
Does anyone have any tips/tricks they use with Sidebery? Tangentially related, but I love using Firefox’s multi-account containers to access different AWS accounts at the same time (managed with Sidebery!).
- danShumway 3y ago
  If you highlight multiple tabs in Sideberry you can right click and copy the URLs as plain text. I set up a static site (https://textmark.netlify.app https://textmark.netlify.app) that I can use in any location to reopen those tabs. If the browser I'm opening them on has Sideberry installed, it even preserves the tree structure.
tetrisgm 3y ago
Sounds like the kinda Readme that would really benefit from a picture
jazzyjackson 3y ago
I was really enjoying tree tabs and panels of the Arc browser [0] but decided to rollback to firefox so I could have something cross platform. Sidebery lets me do nested tab groups, tab panels, plus its got my bookmarks as a panel too. Performance so far is really good, with ~50 tabs anyway. Only trouble is I had to go to relatively great lengths to hide my horizontal tabs: enable userChrome stylesheets, go to about:support to find my Profile folder, create a chrome folder, create a userChrome.css file and paste contents from [1], and restart. So now I have only the side bar of tree tabs, and a hot key to hide/show. Screencap attached [2] (using classic theme for windows from here [3]) [0] https://arc.net/ https://arc.net/ [1] https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#hide-horizontal-tabs-at-the-top-of-the-window-1349-1672-2147 https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-fo... [2] https://coltenj.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-20-030752.png https://coltenj.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screenshot-20... [3] https://github.com/malvinas2/ClassicThemeForWindows10/tree/master https://github.com/malvinas2/ClassicThemeForWindows10/tree/m...
- tux3 3y ago
  Add this to userChrome and you can also hide the giant Sidebery header on the sidebar that Firefox otherwise forces: #sidebar-box #sidebar-header { display: none !important; }
  - jazzyjackson 3y ago
    danke!
  - 2Gkashmiri 3y ago
    i suppose sideberry does not open by default on private windows, can that be fixed somehow to auto load?
    - tlavoie 3y ago
      Just go to settings for the extension, and tick the box to allow it?
Arech 3y ago
Nice! Can't help but mention Simple Tab Groups [0], that basically solved all my issues with tabs. Absolutely wonderful plugin which just must be in every self-respecting browser. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/simple-tab-groups/ https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/simple-tab-group...
altano 3y ago
I’ve tried to switch from Tree Style Tabs to Sidebery twice now but it just isn’t reliable enough: losing my tabs on browser restart was an instant uninstall.
- unaindz 3y ago
  This happened once to me a few years back when I installed it for the first time, I had to configure a few things and it hasn't happened since. I have installed it on other computers since without any configuration and no problems either so maybe they fixed the problem. In my opinion Tree Style is better than nothing but the performance, personalization, etc of Sidebery is something else.
- blechinger 3y ago
  Sideberry has an auto snapshot feature which restores previous states. I've successfully used it twice in three years.
vladstudio 3y ago
More and more browsers have sidebar (vertical) tabs natively these days: * Orion (mac only) - https://browser.kagi.com/ https://browser.kagi.com/ * Brave (mac, windows, linux) - https://brave.com/download/ https://brave.com/download/ (right click any tab and then Use vertical tabs) * Arc (ugh) - https://arc.net https://arc.net
- curiousigor 3y ago
  What's wrong with Arc in your opinion?
  - hju22_-3 3y ago
    I haven't used it, but taking a look at the website kind of makes my eyes bleed. There's a lot of clicking involved to see actual screenshots of that thing.
    - sinfulprogeny 3y ago
      Agreed. The browser itself is amazing though.
    - thrawaway3292 3y ago
      That's a legacy of their pre-release marketing where they were trying to be all secretive and stuff.
  - Y-bar 3y ago
    Apparently it only runs on ugh and not mac, windows, or linux like the other browsers.
  - pantulis 3y ago
    My issue with Arc is the non-macness of the UI. I find it a great design exercise but is not exactly what I expect from a Mac app. Orion is much more interesting in terms of UI and also in performance, but I have to say that tab management on Arc is superior, as it has the concept of "folders", not only nested tabs. Orion has something like this planned, but there's no clear date.
Sujeto 3y ago
There's also Grasshopper https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-urls/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-u...
pantulis 3y ago
Does Sideberry sync its groups and configurations between Firefox instances running on different computers?
Aerbil313 3y ago
Haha. This submission is here due to the Firefox-Chromium thread in the front page.
lproven 3y ago
I tried Sidebery, because my preferred sidebar extension, "Vertical Tabs", has been deleted now. Sidebery appealed because it combines bookmarks and tabs, something that was easy with XUL addons before Firefox Quantum. (I used "Vertical tabs (simplified)", "Flat Bookmarks", and "Unified Sidebar" and they all worked together seamlessly. Not since Firefox 57 though: all gone now.) In the early versions, Sidebery was very unstable and both crashed frequently itself and sometimes took the browser with it. It seems better now. But I can't drag a tab out of a window to make a window of its own, and I can't drag tabs from one window to another. Those are sine qua non features for me: mandatory, and I can't use sidebar tabs without them.

174 points by BafS 3y ago

Tab Stash is way cooler than this. I found Sidebery to be much faster/efficient than most of the tab extensions, but I love that I can group tabs and 'offload'/archive them with Tab Stash. The only thing missing from Tab Stash was the ability to see which tab is playing audio. I installed the Sound Control extension to list tabs playing audio for that. What's missing from EVERY tab extension is I just want the ability to show tabs in a tree view, like an ASCII art tree. They all do this indented, css-styled BS that doesn't look more compact or better. I just want an ASCII tree. Anyway, look at Tab Stash for another alternative.

johnnyworker 3y ago
Sidebery and Treestyle Tabs allow you to customize the CSS they use, so you can make them as compact as you want :)
bradknowles 3y ago
On top of Tab Stash, I want global `sort | uniq` for all my bookmarks and stashed tabs. A given URL should only ever be bookmarked or stashed once. Let me search for it if I need it again.
- zelphirkalt 3y ago
  Sidebery lets you at least close duplicate tabs per "panel". Simply right click a panel and choose from the context menu.
- anais9 3y ago
  I need to check out Tab Stash - while I'd played around with using TabFS for this use case, it was a little bit clunky. Totally agree with your point about global sort/unique which is the basis for my current bookmarking system of https://save.page/docs/saving https://save.page/docs/saving
morsch 3y ago
I don't do bookmarks, ie. long term archival of tabs, but I sometimes stash/set aside tabs by moving them to their own Sidebery tab. The sidebar itself is tabbed.

quesera 3y ago

Tabs on the side are a hugely important part of my workflow. I don't know how top-tabs people get through their days! Some browsers have side-tabs built in, but their implementation and/or UI is poor. Other browsers can't do side-tabs at all, even with extensions. Firefox is the only browser that allows extensions to do tabs on the side properly. And I've tried all of the extensions. Sidebery is the best presently, and the best so far.

apocalyptic0n3 3y ago
> I don't know how top-tabs people get through their days! In my case, I feel the opposite. Having the tabs on the side interrupts the browsing experience and annoys me. I personally do two things that probably makes it easier to live with horizontal tabs: 1. I habitually close tabs. If I'm at 10+, I'll quickly scan them and throw any that I might need later into the bookmark bar (if they aren't in a folder, it triggers me to check them again soon-ish). Then I just purge all tabs because having more than 10 is just a cluttered mess. This is also true in JetBrains, iTerm, Sublime, Finder, etc. 2. I don't fullscreen my browser. It usually only uses about 80% of my screen width, sometimes less. That provides much less incentive to use side tabs

BenFranklin100 3y ago

Sideberry also let’s you create ‘Tab Panels’ to sort tabs into different groupings. Panels can be thought of as separate windows for trees of tabs, but all within the same Firefox maim window. I use it when I’m researching a topic and want to sort tabs into subtopics. Works quite well. It also meshes well with Firefox Containers, another favorite Firefox feature of mine.

jerieljan 3y ago

I also use both Tab Stash and Sidebery. Tab Stash is really more for long-lasting / bookmarked tabs / handling various contexts in my mind and work to get back later. Sidebery on the other hand helps me manage what I currently have in mind and to juggle Multi-Account Containers in neat sections. That said, I've actually ended up using just Tab Stash because yeah, having too much on your Sidebery tree gets messy and now you have to deal with two sets of stashes, and yeah, unlike Tab Stash, Sidebery doesn't let you group them up into sections. My only complaint with Tab Stash? I wish it retained which Multi-Account Container was used when it stashed a tab. It'd be perfect if it did that. On a sidenote, I love that Sidebery lets me scroll through the tabs via scroll wheel. It's a thing I missed since I switched to a Mac because last time I checked, you could scroll through tabs on FF Linux but strangely it's not something you can do on Mac.

ASalazarMX 3y ago
Sidebery does let you group tabs. Select a few from the sidebar, right click, group, give the group a name, and optionally, collapse so it doesn't take space. Somehow it glitches and some groups can become undone, but fortunately I haven't seen that glitch in the last few months, it might be solved for good.
- jazzyjackson 3y ago
  Thanks for pointing this out, just noticed I can move selected tabs to a new panel too, excellent. I'll add that collapsed groups can be nested.

jacknews 3y ago

There's also Tab Center Reborn with the ability to style it with CSS (eg I have my tabs most-recent-at-the-top)

johnnyworker 3y ago

For Tree Style Tabs there is TST Bookmarks Subpanel, so you can see bookmarks and open tabs at the same time.

nextaccountic 3y ago
Thanks! I have a highly customized TST installation so I'm hesitant in trying other extensions
- johnnyworker 3y ago
  You'll like this then https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=tst https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=tst :) But from my experience trying out other extensions doing the same doesn't break anything. I think they all just go off on the tabs FF has open and do their own thing with it, IME you can install several and switch between them no problem (by switching what sidebar is shown).

paul_funyun 3y ago

Best firefox upgrade I've done lately is disabling all their "Enhanced Tracking Protection" features. Those are better done by adblock/ublock extensions and disabling them significantly improved the responsiveness and speed of the browser.

freeCandy 3y ago
You still need enhanced tracking protection for cookies.
zelphirkalt 3y ago
There are some things that uBlock Origin does not do, to prevent some fingerprinting. For example governing canvas and timer precision.

nextaccountic 3y ago

Do you have screenshots?

sMarsIntruder 3y ago
Came here to say the same thing. Opened the github repo, no screen whatsoever. Sad story.
- chrismorgan 3y ago
  My belief, which happens to be distressingly controversial in this day and age since GitHub subverted and repurposed readme files: the GitHub repository actively shouldn’t have screenshots. A readme should have info about the project, building, that kind of thing, stuff that’s relevant to the source, and things like screenshots should be elsewhere (… and certainly not stored inside the repository, as is far too often done—major cause of repository bloat), on a marketing page or similar. In this case, this is the source code repository, as is traditional, and the project’s homepage is on AMO, so that’s where things like screenshots go, as they should in that model. The fault here is merely that the wrong URL was provided for the submission.
BafS 3y ago
You can find screenshots there: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

bryan0 3y ago

In TST I right-click to “delete tabs below this one” all the time. In sidebery I don’t think there is a way to do this?

alphaddx 3y ago
I used to use that feature on TST quite a bit. I was curious and SB does have that option, it's hidden away in settings, under Menu Editor > tabs
- bryan0 3y ago
  Wow thanks for the tip! I’ll check for this next time I use it.
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chrismorgan 3y ago

Better link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

rraghur 3y ago
The one in AMO is v4 though... I install the rc from GitHub and it's miles ahead

tiltowait 3y ago

I'm a recent vertical tabs convert (in particular, tab trees). After just a week, it's very hard to live without it—especially at work, where I have a bajillion tabs open at any time, and I don't feel comfortable installing extensions that can read my bookmarks!

bitbang 3y ago

I use Tree Style Tab extension in combination with Simple Tab Groups extension. Allows having multiple side panel tab trees I can switch between.

lf-non 3y ago

Sideberry is a cool extension that I used for quite some time when FF was my primary browser. I have since switched to Vivaldi which has similar feature built in which works pretty well too.

beltsazar 3y ago

Can I migrate from TST to Sidebery without losing all my tabs with their tree structures?

iamevn 3y ago
I'm curious about this too, I use TST at home and it's gotten really bad with how many tabs I have and how slow it is. I use Sidebery at work and it seems much better.
rebolek 3y ago
I installed Sidebery and just switched from TST to Sidebery, it kept whole tree structure and there's easily accessible option (from Sidebery's top menu) to switch back to TST. The only problem so far I have with Sidebery is that it hasn't scrollbar on the left like TST but it seems that it's available in beta and should be included in new version. So far I'm happy with it, I like how the text color on tabs is fading with time so you can see which tabs you visited recently.
- Jnr 3y ago
  On Firefox extension site it says "Last updated a year ago (Aug 28, 2022)". The beta has been dangling on github for half a year. I'm not installing a beta version which doesn't come from official site where at least some sort of review exists.

gnuyent 3y ago

Does anyone have any tips/tricks they use with Sidebery? Tangentially related, but I love using Firefox’s multi-account containers to access different AWS accounts at the same time (managed with Sidebery!).

danShumway 3y ago
If you highlight multiple tabs in Sideberry you can right click and copy the URLs as plain text. I set up a static site (https://textmark.netlify.app https://textmark.netlify.app) that I can use in any location to reopen those tabs. If the browser I'm opening them on has Sideberry installed, it even preserves the tree structure.

tetrisgm 3y ago

Sounds like the kinda Readme that would really benefit from a picture

jazzyjackson 3y ago

I was really enjoying tree tabs and panels of the Arc browser [0] but decided to rollback to firefox so I could have something cross platform. Sidebery lets me do nested tab groups, tab panels, plus its got my bookmarks as a panel too. Performance so far is really good, with ~50 tabs anyway. Only trouble is I had to go to relatively great lengths to hide my horizontal tabs: enable userChrome stylesheets, go to about:support to find my Profile folder, create a chrome folder, create a userChrome.css file and paste contents from [1], and restart. So now I have only the side bar of tree tabs, and a hot key to hide/show. Screencap attached [2] (using classic theme for windows from here [3]) [0] https://arc.net/ https://arc.net/ [1] https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#hide-horizontal-tabs-at-the-top-of-the-window-1349-1672-2147 https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-fo... [2] https://coltenj.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-20-030752.png https://coltenj.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screenshot-20... [3] https://github.com/malvinas2/ClassicThemeForWindows10/tree/master https://github.com/malvinas2/ClassicThemeForWindows10/tree/m...

tux3 3y ago
Add this to userChrome and you can also hide the giant Sidebery header on the sidebar that Firefox otherwise forces: #sidebar-box #sidebar-header { display: none !important; }
- jazzyjackson 3y ago
  danke!
- 2Gkashmiri 3y ago
  i suppose sideberry does not open by default on private windows, can that be fixed somehow to auto load?
  - tlavoie 3y ago
    Just go to settings for the extension, and tick the box to allow it?

Arech 3y ago

Nice! Can't help but mention Simple Tab Groups [0], that basically solved all my issues with tabs. Absolutely wonderful plugin which just must be in every self-respecting browser. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/simple-tab-groups/ https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/simple-tab-group...

altano 3y ago

I’ve tried to switch from Tree Style Tabs to Sidebery twice now but it just isn’t reliable enough: losing my tabs on browser restart was an instant uninstall.

unaindz 3y ago
This happened once to me a few years back when I installed it for the first time, I had to configure a few things and it hasn't happened since. I have installed it on other computers since without any configuration and no problems either so maybe they fixed the problem. In my opinion Tree Style is better than nothing but the performance, personalization, etc of Sidebery is something else.
blechinger 3y ago
Sideberry has an auto snapshot feature which restores previous states. I've successfully used it twice in three years.

vladstudio 3y ago

More and more browsers have sidebar (vertical) tabs natively these days: * Orion (mac only) - https://browser.kagi.com/ https://browser.kagi.com/ * Brave (mac, windows, linux) - https://brave.com/download/ https://brave.com/download/ (right click any tab and then Use vertical tabs) * Arc (ugh) - https://arc.net https://arc.net

curiousigor 3y ago
What's wrong with Arc in your opinion?
- hju22_-3 3y ago
  I haven't used it, but taking a look at the website kind of makes my eyes bleed. There's a lot of clicking involved to see actual screenshots of that thing.
  - sinfulprogeny 3y ago
    Agreed. The browser itself is amazing though.
  - thrawaway3292 3y ago
    That's a legacy of their pre-release marketing where they were trying to be all secretive and stuff.
- Y-bar 3y ago
  Apparently it only runs on ugh and not mac, windows, or linux like the other browsers.
- pantulis 3y ago
  My issue with Arc is the non-macness of the UI. I find it a great design exercise but is not exactly what I expect from a Mac app. Orion is much more interesting in terms of UI and also in performance, but I have to say that tab management on Arc is superior, as it has the concept of "folders", not only nested tabs. Orion has something like this planned, but there's no clear date.

Sujeto 3y ago

There's also Grasshopper https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-urls/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-u...

pantulis 3y ago

Does Sideberry sync its groups and configurations between Firefox instances running on different computers?

Aerbil313 3y ago

Haha. This submission is here due to the Firefox-Chromium thread in the front page.

lproven 3y ago

I tried Sidebery, because my preferred sidebar extension, "Vertical Tabs", has been deleted now. Sidebery appealed because it combines bookmarks and tabs, something that was easy with XUL addons before Firefox Quantum. (I used "Vertical tabs (simplified)", "Flat Bookmarks", and "Unified Sidebar" and they all worked together seamlessly. Not since Firefox 57 though: all gone now.) In the early versions, Sidebery was very unstable and both crashed frequently itself and sometimes took the browser with it. It seems better now. But I can't drag a tab out of a window to make a window of its own, and I can't drag tabs from one window to another. Those are sine qua non features for me: mandatory, and I can't use sidebar tabs without them.