green-recorder VS treestyletab

As the developer of Green Recorder [1], the second example referred to in this page, I have to say that it sounds my abandonment statement is taken out of context.

In order to support recording on different Wayland compositors (without having to develop tons of other middle layers by yourself), one would need to simply activate their built-in screencasting tool according the specified user settings. This took me a bit of time to figure out for GNOME, and I had to fill a bug-report to speak to one of the compositor developers to understand how to do that, as no documentation was available at all. Even so, some hidden bugs appeared (Quality wasn't too good, audio had to be recorded separately over ffmpeg, and then both audio and video had to be merged together in one file, V9 had a bug that consumes 100% of CPU on some hardware, so we had to use V8 by default... etc).

In order to go further, I had to do the same thing for KWin on Wayland, Sway and other compositors out there in the market and then integrate them into my program. I had to find some workarounds for any bugs that may occur.

Later on, some changes for ffmpeg API broke the Xorg recording (Green Recorder used ffmpeg to record on all desktop environments on Xorg), so I had to do more testing now for multiple versions of ffmpeg and on which distro do they work and don't work.

So I just gave up, as I simply didn't find any particular reason to continue doing that since the only amount of support I received on my then-opened Patreon was $20 per month at its max.

But it shouldn't be said that Wayland can not support screencasting or that it breaks screencasting. It is possible, and the previously mentioned issues are actually on the compositors' developers side, not the protocol.

1: https://github.com/mhsabbagh/green-recorder

TreeStyleTabs author lists some more elaborate css [1].

[1] https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-fo...

Addressing grandparent's comment regarding lack of tab grouping, I made a custom stylesheet for TST that somewhat tries to tackle this:

https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/discussions/3369

I was really enjoying tree tabs and panels of the Arc browser [0] but decided to rollback to firefox so I could have something cross platform. Sidebery lets me do nested tab groups, tab panels, plus its got my bookmarks as a panel too. Performance so far is really good, with ~50 tabs anyway.

Only trouble is I had to go to relatively great lengths to hide my horizontal tabs: enable userChrome stylesheets, go to about:support to find my Profile folder, create a chrome folder, create a userChrome.css file and paste contents from [1], and restart. So now I have only the side bar of tree tabs, and a hot key to hide/show. Screencap attached [2]

[0] https://arc.net/

[1] https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-fo...

[2] https://coltenj.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screenshot-20...

Out of the box Tree Style Tabs is not very good, due to decisions made by Firefox that are beyond its control.

Enabling the desires behavior likely requires quite a few steps beyond just installing the extension.

https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-fo...

Originally, Firefox had a dropdown menu that allowed the user to choose whether tabs were on the top, bottom, left, or right.

This has been an annoying trend with Firefox for some time. They take the default, expected functionality, marginalize it while saying "Users who prefer the old way can enable it in a setting / extension" and then the setting gets deprecated or the extension gets broken by Firefox.

See also: "Classic Theme Restorer".

I don't really think anyone is copying anyone here. This is a popular feature for browsers that has been around for over a decade.

Orion[1] is another recent MacOS browser that released before Arc in 2021 and has vertical tabs. Edge had vertical tabs as an experiment back in 2020[2] and is full feature now. Vivaldi has had vertical tabs since 2015[3]. It might not count since it's not built in, but Firefox has had vertical tab extensions since 2007[4].

[1]https://browser.kagi.com/

[2] https://www.howtogeek.com/697986/how-to-enable-and-use-verti...

[3]https://www.maketecheasier.com/vertical-tabs-browsers/

[4]https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/graphs/contributors

Use treestyletab

If you need further help with this, use the official Tree Style Tab forum or look for solutions on /r/FirefoxCSS.