• Firefox Nightly 131 introduces vertical tabs and an improved sidebar, enhancing tab management and multitasking for users with many open tabs.
  • The vertical tabs feature, similar to Microsoft Edge, keeps tabs organized on the left-hand side and can be customized via Firefox Labs settings.
  • Additional features include AI chatbot integration in the sidebar and ongoing development of tab grouping and profile management tools.
  • lemmyvore
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    181 month ago

    Looking forward to this one. I use vertical tabs on Edge at work and it’s very useful on wide screens.

    Hope they remembered to add a bottom to collapse/expand the tab bar.

    Now we only need tab groups and we’ll be all set.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      I feel like I heard something about tab groups in nightly a while back? I’m using a tab group extension but it’s not the same.

      I remember using vertical tabs in Opera back in the day and feeling like a king. Can’t wait to test this out

      • @festnt
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        21 month ago

        yeah i heard about tab groups too, idk how thats going (i dont use nightly, though i really should)

    • @[email protected]
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      141 month ago

      Nowadays most websites leaves half of your horizontal space empty on high resolution monitors, so you have a lot of unused real estate. Verticals tabs can also fit in more tabs while showing tab title and can implement features like collapsible tabs.

    • setVeryLoud(true);
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      31 month ago

      I do, I have a 2K display with lots of horizontal space. Vertical tabs allow me to better group and see tab names in vertical space rather than trying to line up truncated tab names on a horizontal axis.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      21 month ago

      Not yet. They’re supposedly “working on it”. This is the feature I’m most looking forward to.

  • @grandma
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    This is awesome, now if they switch to a JS engine that isn’t slow and buggy on my laptop I have 0 reasons to use anything chromium-based anymore

    • @[email protected]
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      61 month ago

      I would much prefer they not become more chromified than they switching to chrome’s JS engine.

      • @grandma
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        11 month ago

        I’m not saying they should switch to v8. Ideally they’d make their own performant JS engine but I doubt they actually have the resources for that. I’m just wishing for a browser that’s actually good on all fronts even though it realistically cannot exist

  • @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    Additional features include AI chatbot integration

    su root -c 'find / \( -iname mozilla -o -iname firefox \) -delete'
    
              • @[email protected]
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                26 days ago

                If Mozilla is going to spend time and money and employee effort on this project, then they can just ship it as an optional extension instead of forcing users to install it by default.

                Otherwise, you’re just advocating for bloat. And at that point, I have to ask: what is your cutoff point for how much bloat is too much? Can they inject the 10 most popular add-ons on the marketplace? How about the 100 most popular? 1000?

      • @[email protected]
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        01 month ago

        Individuals’ security and privacy on the internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional.

        - Mozilla Manifesto Principle 4, amended