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You Can Now Try Firefox’s Vertical Tabs (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 3 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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  • Firefox Nightly 131 introduces vertical tabs and an improved sidebar, enhancing tab management and multitasking for users with many open tabs.
  • The vertical tabs feature, similar to Microsoft Edge, keeps tabs organized on the left-hand side and can be customized via Firefox Labs settings.
  • Additional features include AI chatbot integration in the sidebar and ongoing development of tab grouping and profile management tools.
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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

So far it's not perfect yet, but I already switched to it. Very nice.

[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Additional features include AI chatbot integration

su root -c 'find / \( -iname mozilla -o -iname firefox \) -delete'
[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

optional ai chatbot integration, its opt-in

[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Oh great so techbro garbage is bloating up my install instead; much better

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It is like 2 megabytes, it just embeds a webpage

[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

2 megabytes too many ;)

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Have you considered other people might want the feature?

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If Mozilla is going to spend time and money and employee effort on this project, then they can just ship it as an optional extension instead of forcing users to install it by default.

Otherwise, you're just advocating for bloat. And at that point, I have to ask: what is your cutoff point for how much bloat is too much? Can they inject the 10 most popular add-ons on the marketplace? How about the 100 most popular? 1000?