Sidebery – A Firefox extension for managing tabs and bookmarks in sidebar

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  • sidebery

    Firefox extension for managing tabs and bookmarks in sidebar.

  • treestyletab

    Tree Style Tab, Show tabs like a tree.

  • 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...

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  • rofi-tab-switcher

    A rofi-based tab switcher for Firefox.

  • I have a thousand github tabs open, that I'm not sure how to file. I use sideberry and other extensions to manage tabs and close them when I need to. Sideberry is the only somewhat efficient(fast) way to quickly search and close tabs. I'm been waiting for the v5 release for a long time. There was something I needed from it, but I don't remember right now.

    One thing I wish sideberry would do is simplify keyboard navitation. I.e. the moment you start typing it should type things in the search and then should should be able to navigate the result without mouse.

    Maybe someone here can tell me how I can quickly select tabs if I use container tab groups. The address bar only selects open tabs from the right tab group so it's completely useless to me. For a while I used rofi tab switcher[1] but that magically stopped working so I made a custom rofi script that parses brotab[2] output.

    [1] https://github.com/blackhole89/rofi-tab-switcher

    [2] https://github.com/balta2ar/brotab

  • brotab

    Control your browser's tabs from the command line

  • I have a thousand github tabs open, that I'm not sure how to file. I use sideberry and other extensions to manage tabs and close them when I need to. Sideberry is the only somewhat efficient(fast) way to quickly search and close tabs. I'm been waiting for the v5 release for a long time. There was something I needed from it, but I don't remember right now.

    One thing I wish sideberry would do is simplify keyboard navitation. I.e. the moment you start typing it should type things in the search and then should should be able to navigate the result without mouse.

    Maybe someone here can tell me how I can quickly select tabs if I use container tab groups. The address bar only selects open tabs from the right tab group so it's completely useless to me. For a while I used rofi tab switcher[1] but that magically stopped working so I made a custom rofi script that parses brotab[2] output.

    [1] https://github.com/blackhole89/rofi-tab-switcher

    [2] https://github.com/balta2ar/brotab

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