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More like I can't ever manage my own tabs so they keep piling up 😭

Me too, and that's why I don't use vertical tabs! If I stacked all my tabs vertically, they'd surely topple over and injure someone really badly.

For real though, I just couldn't seem to get used to vertical tabs last time I tried them.

Hmm, to me sidebery with the v5 update literally feels like as if it was native, it takes the current theme of your firefox. With custom CSS I remove the top bar as well and it looks awesome.

What does profile switching do better than tab containers?

Profile switching is a big one for me.

You can change profiles by going to about:profiles. I find the way it's implemented in Firefox preferable to other browsers but I can see why others wouldn't.

You can also start up the profile switcher when you launch Firefox when launching it from the command-line with firefox -p.

Is this what you were talking about, or were you referring to something different?

but I would like to at least have the option for H.265 support.

Google Chrome only recently implemented this via hardware decoding. I imagine it's possible for Firefox to do the same thing without infringing on patents, as the browser doesn't implement a decoder this way; rather, they use the decoder implemented by NVIDIA et al.

I can only laugh when I consider Google announced they were dropping H.264 support 12 years ago: https://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html

H.264 support only exists in Firefox by the grace of Cisco. Out of curiosity, why are you interested in H.265 support?

Yeah in a day where the majority of news is not parsed through physical media, the whole "limited space" concern is kind of moot.

Some other quirks I ran into -- native speakers who don't read much often confuse "their", "they're", and "there", because they're homophones. They learn the language as speakers years before they learn to write or cover grammar, and in that environment, it's easy to mentally treat the words as one. The people on that Europe forum virtually never did that.

But one error that did come up -- in languages in Europe, there is often a "Romance" word and a "Germanic" word and they translate directly into each other when you move across languages, whereas in English, sometimes both of the words exist as loanwords and have different meanings. Examples are "manikin" and "mannequin" or "block" and "bloc". I especially saw "block" get used to refer to a political group, whereas normally in English, you'd use "bloc" for that.

One that I'd been aware of for a while that Russians have trouble with is use of the definite and indefinite article. So, in English, you have the definite and indefinite article, "the" and "a". In English, you are required by the language to always indicate whether a thing is a specific thing or an example of a type. I didn't realize until listening to a series of linguistic lectures that that's actually an unusual property for a language to have -- English does that, but most languages do not. In English, you must have "the cat" or "a cat"; you can't just say "cat drank milk". But it was so embedded into my thought process that I hadn't realized that I just always do that. Russian, as well as most languages out there, doesn't work like that.

To be fair, I imagine those rules were developed for use with physical writing, when minimizing space used up was more important. Nowadays, even as a native speaker these headlines just take extra effort to parse without much of a point.

I just tried it out myself, and it's already pretty good, gotta say. Some words or some grammar here and there can be a little weird sometimes, but overall perfectly useful, and it can only get better