215 points

I would just rather see direct link than blogspam:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/119.0/releasenotes/

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Exactly, especially since the article is basically just reading the changelog and jumping from random additions without any logic.

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Thank

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33 points

If you’re migrating your data from Chrome, Firefox now offers the ability to import some of your extensions as well.

Nice.

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I think this is misleading. They’re offering to match your Chrome extension with an equivalent Firefox extension. But they are not providing an extension compatibility layer to run Chrome extensions.

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Yeah. I agree with you. New non-tech-savvy person might misunderstand.

However, new user rarely look at the changelog. So I think this wording does not affect much.

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And whether this is using equivalents or a compatibility layer, to the average non tech savvy person is irrelevant. They don’t care as long as it’s the extension they had and it works.

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I don’t. If they meant that they would’ve said it. I had no moment of misunderstanding at all. Of course it would mean “I’ll automatically match to the equivalent one so you don’t have to do it manually”. They just wanted to state it in a way it was easier to understand

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I dont think that is misleading. They’re functionally the same extensions made by the same authors, if you trust one you trust the other.

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2 points

Slightly odd they are opting to gradually roll out several features this release.

If they aren’t ready then maybe push them back to the next release?

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5 points

Or they are learning from other apps that do this all the time to great success

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Such as? I don’t know many open source apps doing this.

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Why does it need to be limited to open source? A lot of the biggest apps out there typically roll out features slowly. I feel like once Facebook started doing it, it became widespread

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10 points

Waiting for vertical tabs…

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28 points

just install some extention

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19 points

There are extensions that do that, use those along with userChrome and you can effectively replicate the look and feel of any other browser.

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13 points

Tree Style Tabs forever, baby! Simple vertical tab bars can’t even hope to compete.

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It should be built in at this point. It’s annoying to apply userChrome.css tweaks to remove normal tabs and sidebar header.

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I recently found Sideberry which looks like an improvement over TST, but I’ve been putting off switching to it because I would have to reorganize 431 tabs :')

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The only thing I want is proper support for desktop addons on mobile.

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You can use a couple already in the nightly builds of both firefox and the respective add-on

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10 points

Sure, but not even close to all. It’s been literal years since the change. I was understanding at first, but now it’s just becoming frustrating. Things that are very easy in desktop Firefox just isn’t possible on mobile Firefox. And yes, I am running Firefox nightly and custom collections for my extensions on mobile.

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I’m guessing way less than 1% of people would use mobile extensions. I personally do but I don’t think most people use chrome on mobile because of the lack of full extension support on mobile Firefox (which btw is coming). I think people use chrome because “everyone else does”.

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@TrickDacy @parpol I just wish that in 2023, Apple would relinquish their claw-like grip on mobile browsers on iOS. Give me ACTUAL Firefox, please.

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I think you’re underestimating how valuable tab groups are to people. I would make a full switch if Firefox could offer that feature on mobile in any reasonable way. Since it’s already a desktop extension, I’m just waiting for them to be made available on Android

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People use whatever ‘Internet icon’ came with their device and live their ignorant, but happy life :)

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It has already been announced and is likely to come before year-end.

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