These are minuscule, but spacing could be improved a bit as well.
The first would be the menubar - when pressing alt, it seems to leave 20-25 pixels of unused space beneath it, as apposed to when toggling it as always visible.
The second would be the horizontal (inline) padding between an individual tab and the vertical tabs container, removing 2-4 pixels from both sides.
spacing demo:
https://imgur.com/a/4yy8cq8
Hello
Maybe?
https://www.userchrome.org
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/browser_toolbox/index.html
If you wish to stop seeing List all tabs button
#alltabs-button {display: none!important;}
If you wish to move List all tabs button
By way of illustration left -> 1141px
#alltabs-button {
left: 1141px !important;
position: fixed !important;
}
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@kwiatek wrote:Personally I care about more minimal, compact UI
Take a look at
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/fully-support-web-usb-and-web-serial/m-p/48852/highlight/...
Thanks to the Firefox dev team for working on, some ideas about these:
1. The icons for Tabs from other devices and History in the new sidebar are smaller than the icons for Bookmarks and Customize sidebar, which doesn't look very coordinated.
2. The search box in the sidebar panel does not match the style of other search boxes in the Firefox UI design, maybe it would be better to change it to a rounded rectangle like the other elements?
3. Vertical tabs can be designed to expand and collapse automatically - just like Microsoft Edge, vertical tabs expand automatically when the mouse is moved into the vertical tabs, and collapse automatically when the mouse is moved out, and then provide a setting: Maximize, Minimum, and Auto-Expanding (there may be a better design).
4. When the mouse is placed on the vertical tab, the popup tab preview should be displayed on the left or right side of the vertical tab.
- For example, when the sidebar and vertical tabs are fixed on the left side, the tab preview should be shown on the right side instead of below; if the sidebar and vertical tabs are fixed on the right side, the tab preview should be shown on the left side.
Anyway, thanks to the Firefox devs for making native vertical tabs a reality, good job!
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Is there any way to collapse the sidebar into only favicons? I tried going through every page in Nightly settings but couldn't find anything, and since this was a fairly recent feature Google didn't return any relevant result other than this thread so figured this is where I'd ask.
Mine is this way by default, I would very much like to know how to expand the sidebar like you have it 😄
The sidebar icon is too small and incongruous. And after I chose to hide the sidebar, it didn't hide. My idea is that when I choose to hide the sidebar, the sidebar disappears, and when I mouse over the left sidebar area, the sidebar shows up again, which is my idea for hiding the sidebar. And there seems to be a bug when I choose to hide the sidebar, the sidebar becomes what it looks like in the image below. You can only revert to the original state by closing and reopening the sidebar in Firefox Experiments
Is it possible to allow simultaneous use of horizontal and vertical tabs?
Vertical Tabs + Horizontal Tabs?
Will tab grouping be available for vertical tabs, and when will tab grouping be available in the Nearly version?
Have you considered the auto-hide and auto-open sidebar feature?
When opening a story in the sidebar, how can I automatically focus the search, as it is implemented in the sidebar tabs?
Also, the button to close the tab should be displayed when you hover over the tab, even when it is of a narrow size where only icons are visible.
I hope that somewhere in the future it will be possible to implement 2 sidebars, either one next to the other, or one on the left and the other on the right.
Thank you for your work and for your answers!
Finally vertical tabs! Great start, although definitely a lot more needs to be addressed. I will preface this by saying a lot of this feedback is comparing this to Arc browser, which imho has the best implementation of this feature by far.
As general feedback, the main points are:
1. Bookmarking needs to be updated/reworked for vertical tabs. A system like Arc, like @blu already suggested, would be ideal. Pinned tabs already works similarly to the pinned favicons in Arc, except it's tied to that specific window and disappears if the window is closed. I would suggest something like 'Sticky tabs' or 'Favourite tabs', so you can permanently keep tabs at the top of the sidebar (basically exactly how Arc works, it's fantastic).
2. Tree-style tabs - the existing extension is great and all, but having this functionality natively would be ideal. The current UI seems like it would easily work with that.
3. Favicons need to be bigger, or at least there should be an option to customize their size, right now they are too small when viewed on a high-res, large monitor.
4. Firefox already does containers and whatnot, but having different 'shelves' for sets of tabs would be amazing. Once again, basically 'Spaces' as currently used in Arc browser. Maybe work Containers into the sidebar, so you can have a list of your containers at the bottom that you can 'swipe' between.
5. Allow us to change the display of these from a row-by-row links + icon, to just one row of icons with no text and a hover tooltip (again, like Arc). Right now this is a lot of space wasted on text most people will recognise the icons for:
Encountered one major bug so far - when restarting the browser, the pinned tabs glitch out and the new tab button also goes funky:
