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There are tons of addons but they are all weird. I currently have lots of pinned tabs and would like to move those to a sidebar.

Only the favicon, custom side adding, like on Brave.

Is there such a thing in Firefox?

Edit: no I dont want all Tabs on the side! Just a few pinned ones like in Brave

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Damn! Very interesting, had no idea that was possible. But its very messy and also moves the bookmarks toolbar there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I just tried it out and it's purely cosmetic - basically just puts your bookmarks bar to the left hand side, but it's not like rambox or opera or floorp. It just opens a new tab

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

i dislike horizontal tabs, so i go with sidebery / tree-style-tabs. also use a lot of pinned tabs and they sit on top of the list of tabs. this way i can have ~10 pinned tabs and still remember what all of these are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

+1 for Sidebery. It took me some time to get used to it, but now I can't go back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You can't get rid of the top tab batt though which is fucking bollocks. So all you can do is F11.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Sidebery has a tutorial in the README. You can set it up that the tab bar automatically hides when the Sidebery bar is open.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I always wondered what it means by user"Chrome".css

Why the name chrome(anything related to colours?)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"The browser chrome" is the name historically given to the parts of the browser that are not the website. Then Google created a web browser and decided to name it after it - but userChrome.css existed before the browser Chrome did :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I always wondered what it means by user"Chrome".css

Why the name chrome(anything related to colours?)

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

Looks cool! But is there no option to have two sidebars and not just the bookmarks toolbar?

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

This for me has been a work changer:

https://josh-berry.github.io/tab-stash/

Can open in tab or sidebar. Honestly, can't recommend highly enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

+1

the UI could be improved (I always end up hovering for tooltips on controls) but it works really well.

I also like that tabs will stay in the stash by default on close, so its great for opening a bunch of reference sites really quickly without worrying about losing them

Closest thing to the old firefox experiment from a few years back.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

You might be wanna check out Floorp web browser. A fork of Firefox which implements sidebars and other interesting elements. Plus it's super fast!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ok will see if I can copy those elements to normal Firefox. No way I am using some strange 3rd Party firefox mod XD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Floorp dev recently stated that workspaces are not going to be supported anymore/will be removed.

Source : https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp/issues/618#issuecomment-1842971843

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Floorp is not bad but I think it delays in receiving updates. I get "no ad blockers allowed" warnings on YouTube.

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

It's based on ESR so it receives the security updates normally but features at a later stage.

And who still uses YouTube when there are alternatives like invidius and Piped??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I didn't know that. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

In my experience, Firefox and forks are never super fast. Installed Floorp Lightning and the speed is the same as Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I use Tree Style Tab for the sidebar and Simple Tab Groups to get workspaces. They work quite well together. Customize userChrome.css to get rid of the sidebar header and other things and you get something like this

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

I'm very non-adept with CSS. Any chance you could share the code you use to remove the header? Thanks either way!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Never mind, someone else linked something that worked for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I use the integrated sidebar, that comes with Firefox for viewing my pinned tabs. But it can only do that in this case and I'm assuming the sidebar on brave and Vivaldi can do more?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What? How do you enable that?

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

There is a button next to your search and website bar. Next to the addons and stuff. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-firefox-sidebar-access-bookmarks-history-synced

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks! Still not what I need. Way too big and again for all bookmarks, not only a few icons

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A fuck ton more Hans Gruber. Check out Vivaldi. 👍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Could you kindly tell me, so I don't have to install the software?

And why Hans Gruber? :D