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Firefox Devs Working on Tab Previews (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

This is a useless feature. Here are some purely UI features that are more important, and exist in Chromium:

more compact hight, saving space (make browser.compactmode.show official!)
CSD decorations (_ 🔳 x) in the top right, hitbox at the very edge, f**k GNOME for this
Tab groups natively in the Tab bar, its the most organic

Apart from that Firefoxes UI is way better than Chromiums and doesnt need to copy anything.

Then work on performance, process isolation etc.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

> more compact tab bar, saving space

Not sure if you're aware, but there's a hidden setting to make Firefox's toolbars more compact:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compact-mode-workaround-firefox

@Pantherina @linux

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Cool, will try that!

[–] muhyb 1 points 9 months ago

I still use this one:

https://github.com/dannycolin/fx-compact-mode

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

As I said somewhere else, to get more compact tabs you can go to about:config and search for a setting called browser.tabs.tabMinWidth, I usually change the number to 20 (the default minimum width is like 70) and tabs are allowed to become roughly as narrow as in chrome. And if by "more compact tab bar" you meant how tall tabs are, there's the browser.compactmode.show setting, put it to "true" and then in the Firefox menu under More Tools → Customize Toolbars you can select "compact mode" in the "Density" menu on the bottom, which makes the tab bar and toolbars shorter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

No I meant vertical hight. The horizontal width is way better than in Chromium, same with the "scroll tab feature" which works well better.

That second setting ~~is beta~~ is no longer supported so its not shown

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Beta? It isn't experimental, it was an official feature that is no longer supported (even if it still works perfectly).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Oh thats even worse haha.