Actual tabs on Mobile

[Zorak]

What?
Create a view with TABS. Actual visible tabs. Optional, of course. Effectively desktop/tablet mode.

Why?
Convenience and visibility. It takes basically twice as much taps to create, or switch between tabs. Also, you need to tap to see, what you have even open.

So let me expand:
My primary browser on desktop is Firefox, so I would greatly benefit from the linked account, also mobile Firefox (android) does allow add-ons, which is great.
However, I am a power user, and I really use lots of tabs. Not necessarily in the terms of large volumes, let's say usually between 5 and 10, but rather dynamically opened, used, then switched elsewhere. Currently, I am basically forced to use Opera on my Android device, as this is as far as I know the only browser, that has actual tabs, so I can all the times see, what I have open, and conveniently switch between tabs on one tap, or worst case, one slide and one tap.

Firefox, on the other hand, follows whatever Google came up with years ago. I do remember times, when actually Firefox was the browser with tabs (around Android 4).

So in the end, for a person, that needs to switch a lot, the current mode is basically unusable, because in average, the same action takes basically twice as much steps.

I am attaching a screenshot for a comparison between Firefox and Opera for Android.

Oh and one more thing. I know about the swipe between tabs. That is not a solution, as it requires you to remember the order of the tabs, which is a challenge, if you have many open, and some of them opened dynamically from other tabs, as I do have it. So then you just end up scrolling .... of course in a wrong direction, because your tab that you need will be elsewhere ... heh.

So please, can we make this happen?

Thanks!

[Jon]

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[rafnov]

I would never take example of opera. For the rule obey 😂🫡

[Maoricio]

From what I understand you want the tabs to look like the ones in opera.

First go to settings -> tabs then choose grid 

Second go to settings-> customize then toggle tab bar on 

[Maoricio]

From what I can understand you want the tabs to look like the ones from Opera.

First go to settings-> tabs then choose grid.

Second go to settings-> customize then toggle tab bar on.