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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Vertical Tabs! ๐Ÿ˜ Fucking finally!

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

why do you guys like vertical tabs so much? currently trying it out, trying to get over how jarring it is so far.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

If you mostly use your browser in a maximized format, then you'll have empty space to the left and right of most webpages. Vertical tabs make good use of that.

If you tile your browser window often or if you have relatively few tabs (per browser window), then it's not nearly as useful.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Uses my screen space more efficient and I can structure my tabs better in a tree hierarchy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have at most 5 tabs open at any time. I never even considered that someone would organize their tabs let alone in a tree hierarchy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do this mostly for work and university stuff, were I often need a lot of resources (documentations, tutorials, papers, etc).

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I usually make a bookmark when I need a tab later. My bookmarks are organized. I only keep a tab open when I immediately need to use it. Like one tab of the paper I'm reading, one tab Deezer music, one tab search engine, and 1-2 tabs of sites I haven't closed yet but I'm about to.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Just tried out the new version and sadly you can't nest tabs. ๐Ÿฅฒ

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's an extension for that

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I know. I'm using Sideberry myself for quite some time now. But native support would still have been nice.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But can they be collapsed to show icon only?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

this appears to be the default behaviour

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hardware video decoding is now enabled for AMD GPUs on Linux.

Very cool

On Linux, Firefox is now available on ARM64 (AArch64), with installation options via APT and tarballs. Flatpak support is coming soon.

Will be interesting to try an ARM Linux laptop in a few years...

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

i'm excited for riscv, not arm, but thats a long way out sadly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Indeed, though I think there is some work on FF on RISC-V (if not builds)?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Quite a lot made it into in this release, damn...

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Just installed Firefox. How to change the scroll bar? All the answers Google provides don't work.