On: Firefox 5 is now officially released

[hugh4life]

Better than normal update experience that's still nowhere near Chrome. The Tree Style Tabs extension still works after the update...

Chrome is absolutely unusable for the amount of windows I have open at a time and Firefox doesn't crash on me as much as it used to in order to warrant having every page take up a separate process.

[marcocampos → hugh4life]

The worst for me in Chrome is trying to scroll while a site is still loading or you have tabs loading in the background. That damn bug hasn't been solved for 2 years and counting... (yes, I've filed a bug report)

[tung → marcocampos]

Strange. For me, Firefox has unresponsive scrolling with background loading, but Chrome doesn't, which is a big reason I use the latter nowadays.

[kakuri → hugh4life]

> Chrome is absolutely unusable for the amount of windows I have open

Odd, that's the exact reason I switched from FF to Chrome. I generally have about 20-40 tabs open, and FF is terrible for me with more than just a few open, while Chrome flies along gracefully.

I wonder what the cause for the widely varying performance experiences is?

[starwed → kakuri]

Probably an extension you had installed.

[listic → hugh4life]

Wow, never encountered this problem. How many tabs in how many browser instances did you have?

[yxhuvud → hugh4life]

More important is that tab kit still isn't fixed.

That damned plugin keep me in FF3, since tree style tabs are so goddamed ugly.

Edit: But looking at the page, it seems the developer posted an update yesterday promising an update in a week or two. yay!

[jokermatt999 → yxhuvud]

There are several themes for TreeStyleTab available in options, and you can also use your theme's default tabs (which looks weird). I wish it was supported by default in Firefox, but oh well.

[tapoxi → hugh4life]

Have you tried enabling side tabs in Chrome? Works wonders for me.

[thorax → tapoxi]

I love Tree-Style Tabs, so had to try this out.

For anyone else who had trouble tracking down modern instructions for this:

  * Go to about:flags
  * Enable Side tabs (first option)
  * Restart Chrome
  * Right-click on a tab and chose "Use side tabs"

Not a treeview of collapsible tabs, but muchmuchmuch better than normal tab view in Chrome. Thanks for mentioning that they had this.

[_harry → thorax]

While on the subject of about:flags --

Enable 'Tab Overview' if you have a Mac with a trackpad.

Three finger swipe down shows all of your tabs like expose.

[te_chris → _harry]

This is my favourite chrome feature! It's so useful that it's convinced me to buy a magic trackpad so I can use this when I'm using the laptop with an external keyboard.

[intranation → te_chris]

Ctrl + Cmd + t

[te_chris → intranation]

Thank you!!! I know you're not mean't to put posts like this on HN, but I've been searching for a shortcut like that for a long time! :)

[petercooper → thorax]

What version has this? I just tried 12, 13 and 14 (Canary) and I don't have that option. I have "Tab Overview" as the first thing in flags. Is this a Windows only thing, perhaps?

[jefftk → petercooper]

In osx I had to do:

     cd /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS
     mv "Google Chrome" "Google Chrome Binary"
     echo '#!/bin/bash
     exec "${0%/*}/Google Chrome Binary" -enable-vertical-tabs "$@"' > "Google Chrome"
     chmod ugo+x "Google Chrome"

This let me start chrome with the "-enable-vertical-tabs" command line switch. Once it was started I needed to right click a tab and choose "Use Side Tabs".

[jannes → jefftk]

Wouldn't this break after an update?

[andfarm → jefftk]

Probably worth noting that the vertical tab UI you end up with looks pretty weird (on Mac OS, at least), as it's literally just moving the existing tabs over to the side without changing the graphics at all.

[olifante → jefftk]

to try it out without making it permanent, just open a Terminal window and enter something like this:

  /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome -enable-vertical-tabs

[mason55 → petercooper]

Is this a Windows only thing, perhaps?

I believe so, I've been using sidetabs since they were released in Canary one year+ ago and I've never figured out how to get it to work on my Mac

[hugh4life → tapoxi]

I last heard about it a while ago... just tried it... nowhere near as good as TreeStyleTabs...

Chrome also just doesn't work well for me for the amount of windows I usually have open at a time. 70+ at least.

[yqiang → tapoxi]

Are you on windows or osx? Would love to know how to get side tabs working on OSX.

[zalew → hugh4life]

> The Tree Style Tabs extension still works after the update..

that's always the most important information for me before i upgrade ff, so thank you!