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Opera workspaces in firefox (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by zweieuro@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Hi! With all the stuff going on I want to switch to Firefox. I got incredibly used to the sidebar in Opera Though and really want something similar.

E.g. Having WhatsApp in the side tab and not in the header tabs (so I can't close it accidently) or different t workspaces for different projects has proven incredibly helpful. Also on opera I can open 2 Windows with the same workspace and get different tabs making it really useful for programming.

I've looked around for plugin like that but could only find one where the tabs were also shown on the side and the top.

If anyone could help me here that would be great, I am really on the fence of switching to way land and ff on my machine.

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[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think you'd prefer floorp instead. It's firefox/gecko based (I believe that's your main concern?) but has many features inspired by vivaldi/opera, including workspaces, web panels, vertical tabs...

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Workspaces in flooro are poorly implemented though I would still suggest flooro as well. With the sidebery extension you can get some very good organization done

[–] zweieuro@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

After spending a day with it, this is exactly what I want! Thanks for the recommendation

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with Opera, but it seems like you might be looking for something like Tree Style Tab.

[–] zweieuro@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

thanks! I've tried this but in the end its just a different way of displaying but i want groups to be contained differently as well

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Firefox has a concept that is called containers, but it's less a visual separator and more of a logical isolation layer (with separate cookies, etc.). Maybe this could work for you? I believe you can make different containers have different tab colors, but I'm actually not sure about that.

[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

like this? https://github.com/Godiesc/firefox-one

[–] olicvb@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

having switched from opera gx to firefox, Panorama-tab-groups did the trick. Combined with https://github.com/Godiesc/firefox-gx and it's extra addons.

One improvement i discovered was that no matter the window the tabs are accessible. Opposed to opera where each groups' tabs were tied to it's window, and you couldnt open the tabs from one windows into the other by clicking on the tab group.

[–] zweieuro@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the tip! I actually consider what you call an advantage a disadvantage and visa versa. I always have 2 opera windows open side to side (on i3) and like that they are not the same

[–] olicvb@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Coincidentally i just now set up different profiles using this guide (srry windows based, i'm sure you can do similarly on other OS tho), so now i have both.

Makes two shortcuts that each point to their own profile and opens in their own instance with separate taskbar icons. Then you add panorama tab groups to it and there ya go ultimate tab potential : p