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Nice! This is handy. Good job.

It's a decent suggestion. Using multiple windows in a tile stack would be the way I'd do it, but it sounds like that probably won't be a valid suggestion. I don't think it's a such a great feature that I'd comply with DRM based web page tracking and ads for. For clarity, any site with Google's DRM will need to be seen with Chrome or you won't be able to use the site, period. You will be 100% tracked and served ads. They will know exactly who you are on any site. They will clutter your pages, tab stacked or otherwise. I don't believe Google when they say this for your safety and will stop ads. It will give them exclusive power to push ads and companies will pay them a premium to force ads in your pages. This isn't Google's engineers who are pushing this. It's Google corporate making it's engineers break the web for profit and ad dominance.

Losing the ability to block ads completely or have tab stacking - I know which way I'd go. But hey, you can't force people to do anything, and unlike Google I wouldn't, so I'll just leave it there.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-stack-for-firefox/

Bring Vivaldi Tab Stack to Firefox. Source code: https://github.com/Riajyuu/Tab-Stack

I most certainly am getting there. Trying to avoid corporate enshitification is near impossible in the web space most people know.

I especially like the option to auto move full screen windows to their own workspace

That is a useful option. Some time ago I played with another extension which handled that and I liked the work flow. You could name the app in the Extensions app settings for it, and allocate a workspace number. Too bad it often broke and I got tired of that. If this were an option in COSMIC I'd use it for sure.

OK, glad you got a result. It is odd, but some dependency issues have been observed lately. I don't know why full-upgrade didn't handle that after running that sequence. Here's a little context;

dist-upgrade
   dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
   also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions
   of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and
   it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the
   expense of less important ones if necessary. So, dist-upgrade
   command may remove some packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file
   contains a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package
   files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding
   the general settings for individual packages.

full-upgrade
   full-upgrade performs the function of upgrade but may also remove
   installed packages if that is required in order to resolve a
   package conflict.

The technical answer is that COSMIC is a desktop environment, and like any other desktop environment you can install it on top any Linux distribution that supports it. Meaning it should be technically possible to install on an existing 22.04, or maybe 24.04 Pop!_OS. But here's the tricky bit, and nothing is concrete yet. COSMIC DE might be getting released on a new Pop-core which will not be what already exists. In that scenario a fresh installation would likely be necessary. So to answer your question - I'm not sure how that will roll out just now.

I will say this. After using and watching Pop!_OS development for five years now, whatever System76 release will be awesome. It simply has to be as they're a hardware sales company and need a stable, secure and functional OEM operating system.

If it is phased updates two weeks is not uncommon. In the meantime you can try to fix the packet manager and use full-upgrade which focuses on dependencies.

sudo apt clean
sudo apt update
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt install -f
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo apt autoremove --purge 

All good. I'll try and do a fresh one whenever significant improvements can be shown.

There's been at least six blog posts from System76 on COSMIC DE. You can keep an eye out here

Most everything in Pop's repos that is able to be built for COSMIC works OK. The settings applet being the central hub is getting fleshed out with usable toggles and functionality on a steady basis. Did you have anything specific in mind?

It varies from annoyances to more serious. Theming is a common issue. The situation is improving all the the time. Here is System76's lead developer's answer. https://lemmy.world/comment/1068614