We may be losing our beloved side tabs again, so, where do you palan to go from here @wendell ?
We could just keep using an out dated version but that will have obvious consequences. The only other solution I've found is the Vivaldi broswer but that's still very early devlopment and installing chrome extensions that we depend on is still a pain, so, again, what is your plan of action?
Tree Style Tabs is broken on the latest version of Firefox Nightly (Linux) so the descent has already begun :/
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have you found a good alternative for a different browser by chance?
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welcome Vivaldi
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What would be the reason for using this?
edit: the reason I ask is because vivaldi uses the exact same extension framework that firefox plans to use, so moving to vivaldi because firefox is going to use the same framework as vivaldi seems like a silly reason.
i know, it just feels fresh and snappier and i actually love the name
No the only thing that will happen is that old extensions will fail to work unless it gets updated. Also the webextensions API will be expanded along with input from current extension developers. So before XUL, XPCOM and such disappear a lot will be working like it should.
What Mozilla is doing is actually quite ambitious and should be applauded here. They are trying to unify the add-on language so addon can be made for Firefox, Chrome and Opera at the same time and possibly Edge too.
I agree that this needed done, and that it is good, but this will make thitgs like TST impossible
Vivaldi is Chromium based and impliments vertical tabs natively
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Anyone else kind of like Midori? I use that on a couple super crappy old Linux laptops just because it's so light, but I've kind of grown to like it compared to Firefox. I use Chrome/Chromium on more powerful machines...unfortunately
Firefox is just so klutzy compared to Chrome, especially with plugins like Flash, where Chrome has flash built in...dangit Google making things convenient
Could we not see an updated add on that would do the same thing? Maybe talk to the devs of tree style tabs? Or maybe talk to Mozilla to add a feature like it. It can't be that hard to implement. I would be VERY upset if I could no longer use tree style tabs, honestly. It might make me change browsers. And that is something that I really don't want to have to do.
Let us know how important that included flash feature is after a few months, once we finally see flash gone from most websites. People have been trying to move away from flash for a while now. Integrating it wasn't ever a good call because using flash wasn't ever a good call. It is just something that we all had to accept because of how universal it was. Now it is the hate of it that is universal, so it will be going away shortly.
How do you know it is impossible as even the whole webextensions-api is far from a matured state? The first time devs will be able to actually use webextensions-api is in FF 43 which will be in beta on 3 November and even then it's still an unfinished product as features will be added.
You can use TST in Chrome, Opera and Safari too so why would it all of a sudden be impossible to use in FF in a year time?
How are you using TST in Chrome?
I run outdated windows 7, what's they can do when a browser exploit is found, steal the 2 dollars in my bank account?
Here is a suggestion for people still wanting to enjoy a firefox experience: Palemoon.
Basically they forked from Firefox a few years ago, developping along-side but in different directions. Looks like firefox, but the rendering engine is quite different (more secure, optimized for modern hardware) while still allowing the use of (most) Firefox add-ons.
Politically, they do not like where firefox is headed, since Mozilla is opting to developping a Chrome clone, rather than being a proper alternative. Hence the existence of Palemoon. Also, if you're a fan of the old pre-Australis Firefox interface, you'll very much feel at home with Palemoon. Either way, I tend to agree with their position. I do not like where Firefox is heading and this event reaffirms that belief.
All in all, it's an excellent browser, I use it myself every day with Tree Style Tab and Pentadactyl for the VI like interface.
They actually implemented side tabs at some point in a beta version of Chrome (1) They eventually removed it for reasons unknown to me, unfortunately. So it was considered in the past, and knowing google, I don't think they'll revisit the idea.
I don't want it in Chrome. I want it in firefox. I don't care what Chrome does because I don't use it.