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What does "do tabs like Chrome" mean?

by cassianoleal 2y ago

ntp85 2y ago
OP might refer to tab grouping being readily available in Chrome whereas Firefox requires additional add-ons for it.
- desdenova 2y ago
  Why would I want to "group" tabs though? Is it something related to that disease people have of hoarding thousands of tabs instead of just opening what they actually need?
  - rgreekguy 2y ago
    Chrome's tab groups implementation is pretty nice. I used it at work, very neat. Having tabs grouped by ticket, I might not work on one ticket today, I can collapse the group. Of course, like its tabs, it's only good in small numbers, and in small names...
  - lxgr 2y ago
    Why do you think you know what other people actually need?
sethops1 2y ago
Probably how Chrome (and recently, Safari) segregate profiles by window. It makes keeping work tabs and personal tabs (for example) very simple / obvious.
- mtndew4brkfst 2y ago
  IIUC this has been well supported by Firefox for a couple years I think, via a first-party extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... There's a specific sibling extension for isolating Facebook, too.
igornadj 2y ago
I mean copy them exactly, off the top of my head: - some browsers do tabs below the address bar - Firefox has tab scrolling, minimum tab widths, and the tab itself is a floating box, not a part of the page visually. - Firefox's address bar is also different, to me it seems potentially also should be A/B tested with directly copying Chrome
- cassianoleal 2y ago
  > - some browsers do tabs below the address bar Not Chrome though, so I don't see the relevance. I also don't like it. The address is relevant to that tab only, so it should be hierarchically inside it. > - Firefox has tab scrolling, minimum tab widths, and the tab itself is a floating box, not a part of the page visually. So, visual tweaks? Fine, but I don't see how that would improve UX massively. > - Firefox's address bar is also different, to me it seems potentially also should be A/B tested with directly copying Chrome Perhaps. Or maybe there's a lot of people who prefer Firefox's. In any case, again - visual tweaks? I really don't see how any of those would bring great improvements to the Firefox experience.

What does "do tabs like Chrome" mean?

ntp85 2y ago

OP might refer to tab grouping being readily available in Chrome whereas Firefox requires additional add-ons for it.

desdenova 2y ago
Why would I want to "group" tabs though? Is it something related to that disease people have of hoarding thousands of tabs instead of just opening what they actually need?
- rgreekguy 2y ago
  Chrome's tab groups implementation is pretty nice. I used it at work, very neat. Having tabs grouped by ticket, I might not work on one ticket today, I can collapse the group. Of course, like its tabs, it's only good in small numbers, and in small names...
- lxgr 2y ago
  Why do you think you know what other people actually need?

sethops1 2y ago

Probably how Chrome (and recently, Safari) segregate profiles by window. It makes keeping work tabs and personal tabs (for example) very simple / obvious.

mtndew4brkfst 2y ago
IIUC this has been well supported by Firefox for a couple years I think, via a first-party extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... There's a specific sibling extension for isolating Facebook, too.

igornadj 2y ago

I mean copy them exactly, off the top of my head: - some browsers do tabs below the address bar - Firefox has tab scrolling, minimum tab widths, and the tab itself is a floating box, not a part of the page visually. - Firefox's address bar is also different, to me it seems potentially also should be A/B tested with directly copying Chrome

cassianoleal 2y ago
> - some browsers do tabs below the address bar Not Chrome though, so I don't see the relevance. I also don't like it. The address is relevant to that tab only, so it should be hierarchically inside it. > - Firefox has tab scrolling, minimum tab widths, and the tab itself is a floating box, not a part of the page visually. So, visual tweaks? Fine, but I don't see how that would improve UX massively. > - Firefox's address bar is also different, to me it seems potentially also should be A/B tested with directly copying Chrome Perhaps. Or maybe there's a lot of people who prefer Firefox's. In any case, again - visual tweaks? I really don't see how any of those would bring great improvements to the Firefox experience.