Allow 2 Sidebars, one for tabs, one for extensions (or alternative)
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I really like the sidebar, and I think vertical tabs are amazing, even though really new. I want to make a lot of extensions like "side view" that open a website as a sidebar popup, for example a dictionary. This would be really useful. But currently the vertical tabs are in the same sidebar, so a s...

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Firefox gets vertical tabs and a sidebar, cool huh? And you can open pages as sidebar popups, for example a small dictionary page, or a notepad or whatever else!

But when using vertical tabs and these site popups, it looks pretty ugly and pushes the main site to the edge.

Having a sidebar and a vertical tab bar would fix this.

Current state and mockup as images attached.

This is how it currently is: the sidebar and the vertical tab bar are the same. Placed extensions are unintuitive and popup windows (like Mozillas SideView or dedicated extensions) are next to the tabs, pushing the main website even further to the side

current state

This is how I would like it to be. A sidebar and a tab bar. Extensions go on the sidebar and the tab bar is just for tabs. The browser view is centered and clean.

(Tbh I would like tabs on the left but I am too lazy to edit the mockup)

  • Propheticus@lemmy.zip
    2·
    1 day ago

    Indeed. It uses some of the vertical tabs features in Firefox, but adds workspaces (~tabbed tab window) that you can assign default containers (like banking, personal, shopping) to. Tab groups are missing, but are being worked on. Don’t expect nested tabs or trees like Sideberry or TST offer though. Honest disclosure: the implementation is not fully polished yet. The location where new tabs are opened or their remembered location after closing/opening the browser is not consistent.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
      0·
      17 hours ago

      I tried it, it is not the same. It seems to use the sidebar, and this popup thing hovers over the site instead of reducing the browser display area.

      There is a Zen Mod to auto hide and show that popup, I fiddled around with it today and it was pretty amazing.

      But also a bit broken, the popup didnt display anymore, the tab workspaces work really well but I can’t remove the weird duplicate icon at the bottom.

      Overall way better than FF though, WAY better. If I can fix those 2 things I will absolutely switch, this is next level

      • Propheticus@lemmy.zip
        1·
        17 hours ago

        That popup you mention sounds like the zen web panel rather than the sidebar. In total that gives 3 concepts: vertical tabs, a floating web panel next to that and the sidebar. I like what they’re trying to do, but it’s not all polished yet with some odd UI glitches or things requiring (re)configuring like the toolbar. That combined with bad font rendering and missing tab groups made me switch back to FF for now…where I now disabled all usage data sharing options.