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[–] eksb@programming.dev 14 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] footox@lemmy.one 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I feel Sidebery is a more polished spiritual successor to TST.

[–] Vertelleus@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's interesting, but it wastes to much of the screen.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

True, sadly I'm unable to stop using tree style tabs after getting accustomed to it years ago. It's one of those rabbit holes I'm unable to climb out of, similar to modern keyboard layouts.

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago

Don't be sad. I'd say you're doing it right! Vertical space is much more limited than horizontal on 21st century monitors, and tabs are wide, not tall. Tree tab UI enables semantic layout (showing you practically unlimited levels of nesting), plus they always give you consistent room to read page titles. Why should the usability of tabs decrease as you open more of them?

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Found the 4:3 fan.

[–] figaro@lemdro.id 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This is absolutely not a replacement for the tab group experience Chrome and Edge offer

[–] hothomir@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely this, there isn't anything currently from what I've found that gives the easy experience that Chrome/Edge has.

Only thing that I've been missing when I moved from Edge, apart from PWA support.

[–] figaro@lemdro.id 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah honestly all the other solutions are just copium. Chrome tab groups are exactly what a tab group should be. It's simple and useful. That's all I need, all I want.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

powertabs will give you vertical, grouping, search, sorting, and some rules behaviour

[–] figaro@lemdro.id 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does it mimic the functionality of chrome group tabs perfectly?

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would say its superior. You can create and add tabs to groups. expand and collapse them. make rules for certain sites to auto open in a group you made. sort based on url or name or last used. rename them. move the groups around visually. I do use it with the vertical tab view and tend to ignore the top bar though so it may depend on your usage.

[–] figaro@lemdro.id 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It seems a bit too much like glorified bookmarks to me. I'm glad you find it useful though :)

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I mean you can say that about any tab add on really. You could mostly get it from some sort of auto bookmarking add on that additionally updated it based on browsing within a domain maybe and auto discarding on close although it still would nto quite be there because it would discard to much if you kept several tabs for a domain. I mean it might be able to recognize multiple tabs and save the bookmarks alright but the auto reaping I bet would mess up.

[–] abaddon@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm away from my PC so I can't name it but there's another plugin similar to Tree Style Tabs. The creator claims that TST takes up a lot of resources. I do notice Firefox taking a lot of CPU/mem but that's probably my fault. I've tried both and either works well.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Might be talking about Sidebery. I like them both and switch back and forth