• Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org
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          Yes, they worked differently than the way Edge or Chrome do now and were in many ways superior for tab management, much more like Vivaldi’s sessions but more intuitive. I was a heavy user and so am biased. They said “just use an extension!” but it would crash and lose your session (and imo the extension works even worse today). It was really ahead of its time.

          Few people used it because they didn’t advertise it or make it easily discoverable. You had to know the shortcut already through osmosis or drag the button out of the customize menu.

          https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221050#c0

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            Simple tab groups works better tbh. It uses the features to hide, list and manage tabs.

            But a native in-line implementation would be best.

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              I actually prefer Chrome’s tab groups, preferring to have groups visible and one click away. Ideally the user would be able to choose whether to show or hide inactive groups.

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                10 months ago

                True. That is an entirely different UI and also underlying browser issue. Mobile does not have Containers or process isolation.

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              Yeah it’s kinda laggy but does its job. I guess that was the reason why did they remove it from Firefox, it was slowing things down.

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                  10 months ago

                  Never used Epiphany as my main browser but it’s nice to have it around as an another open-source browser project. Gotta check that feature.

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                    10 months ago

                    I mean, why not use Geckoview? Mozilla is doing something really nice and has the only full fledged browser with actual Addon support. Meanwhile GNOME and KDE have half-baked projects that use engines only really maintained by Google and Apple.