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Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131 (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does anyone have a screenshot of how it looks? I'm curious

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/firefox-sidebar-and-vertical-tabs-try-them-out-in-nightly/m-p/63231#M22243

This thread has some screenshots

[+] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Sidebar makes my Firefox pretty slow at startup and has a few bugs. I would love a native alternative with similar features. Namely I would really like vertical tabs that aren't a sidebar because I want to be able to use sidebars without hiding my tabs... But seems like this new implementation is also a sidebar.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Sidebery is fantastic, but I do feel like it's making things a bit slow. I might be prepared to give up on panels and nesting if I can get better performance. (And possibly the Tab Groups work can replace my use of panels.)

[–] anguo 1 points 6 months ago

My main issue with a non-native solution is that you need use userchrome hacks to make the horizontal tabs bar disappear, which doesn't sync between installations. I use Firefox in multiple computers at the school I work at, so it isn't a viable solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Maybe the native implementation is lighter, but yeah, I get it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Interesting how the announcement contains neither mention nor screenshot of the new AI chatbot that appears to be in it...

I thought that was going to be an integral part of the sidebar. Are they keeping it turned off by default?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The AI assistant stuff is currently an opt-in experiment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As is the sidebar, thus why I was curious about how joined the features are.

I would love it if Mozilla cast the AI trend aside and left the chatbot junk to extensions, like we already have. Even for an AI evangelist, the landscape has become dotted with chatbots that are incompatible with each other but link back to the same APIs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

To be clearer, at least for now, they're literally separate checkboxes. I have the sidebar on, AI off.

I would love it if Mozilla cast the AI trend aside

I feel you... :^(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's another feature that intersects with the sidebar work but has to be enabled separately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Any news on the tab groups? Also, anyone mind sharing a GIF or a small clip of the vertical tabs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Really looking forward to this once it's complete! I'm currently using ranmaru22's vertical tabs, but having something native that won't risk breaking with FF updates will be nice.