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If you exclusively use vertical tabs (either with CSS or another way), how is it? Did you miss horizontal tabs at all? (self.firefox)

submitted 1 year ago by TheTwelveYearOld to c/firefox

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I’m trying to switch to Floorp right now from Firefox, where I have both the regular horizontal tabs, and a flat vertical list with the Tree Style Tab extension. I use the later a lot, and while I could keep this setup in Floorp, I like that the vertical tabs can be native instead of using TST. However, it just feels weird to not have horizontal tabs. I think I might miss seeing a bunch of my tab titles at a glance with it, but I have to use it more and see how I feel.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I could never get used to it tbh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the point of displaying the tabs if you can't read the titles easily? At that point you could just display the number of open tabs and switch between them with keyboard shortcuts. The only problem I see with that is having more than 9 tabs but I never have that many anyway, and you could modify it to work with more fairly easily.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Homie never heard of favicons I guess lol

“Why would anyone use a browser in any way other than how I use a browser? Fucking idiots!”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Somehow I don't think my question equates to calling OP an idiot.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use exclusively vertical tabs with a thin bar that doesn’t display page titles.

Can you seriously not understand why someone would do that?

Main page tabs are pinned on new windows. If I click a link inside one of those sites, it nests under the main page tab. Ex: one tab for lemmy is pinned to the sidebar. When I click an article link, it gets nested under the lemmy tab. In another tab I have an email box pinned. Clicking any links inside an email nests a new tab under the email tab.

I don’t need titles because I know what each tab is already. I have about 15 pages as persistent tabs in any new browser window. If things get complicated and I need a ton of tabs for one of those sites, I just drag the tab group out of the main browser so it becomes it’s own window.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can see how that's useful if you often have that many tabs open at once. You could have just started with that instead of being unnecessarily rude.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've tried a lot of different tab management systems. Multiple tree tab extensions, a couple that build off the built in container system, a few different non plugin browser tweaks, and some random other crap for stacking or deactivating idle tabs. None of them fully feel right for me.

I forgot what the current thing I'm using is called and I left the computer at work but it groups tabs into workspaces and has some sort of container integration I haven't fully investigated. It seems lacking performance wise though.

I generally have around 1500 tabs at any time for various topics of research, news or updates for various things. More often than not I find horizontal tabs to be a hindrance and the only thing that could make them worse is if they shrank to triangles and made a sawblade like chrome tabs.

[–] melonpunk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is Floorp the only option for Firefox for removing horizontal tabs? I like the idea of vertical tabs, but only if I can get rid of the horizontal bar and free up that extra screen space.

[–] TheTwelveYearOld 0 points 1 year ago

Ideally I'd have both horizontal and vertical tabs, since its easier to glance horizontal tabs, but I think I'd get used to just horizontal after awhile.