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this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2024
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Try Sideberry, tab grouping, renaming, dragging and dropping, snapshots, etc.
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it.
Unfortunately again: "Nice, but." It's a fantastic extension that does its best to make up for Firefox's lack of tab handling. Hats off to the developer. Nevertheless, it is a far cry from what the competition has to offer. The others don't need a space-consuming side panel. They can do all these things with the tabs themselves. Firefox can do almost nothing in comparison.
To each their own, I suppose. This has been my favorite tab management system I've used.
I haven't used Vivaldi in years and only tried it for a short period at the time, but what features exactly are miles ahead or is it just the fact that Firefox requires a plugin to do some of what the competition has natively?
This is the features page for Vivaldi's tabs. And it has two or three subpages that explain some features in more detail:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/how-to/tab-management-is-our-love-language/
It also offers the sidebar on top of all the other features (although the FF plugins are a bit more powerful in the sidebars). It also lets you hide the tab bar completely, unlike FF where the sidepanel exists in addition to the the always visible tab bar... that's the definition of redundancy.
As you say, to each his own. Unfortunately, I am just that little bit less productive when using FF.
Edit: minor edits for clarity
Is it an upgrade over TST ?
I can't speak to that 100% but I do remember trying both (albeit briefly) and ultimately settling on Sidebery. Looking at the addons page, TST dev actually mentions Sidebery and a few others in their Developer Comments.
*Edit: It seems to imply that Sidebery is a tree addon with extra features. The most notable of which that sold me was the snapshots. I kept losing all my (~200) tabs if I closed Firefox improperly on my Macbook which was not fun.