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[–] lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is neat, but I feel like Opera had this waaay back like 15-20 years ago. My memory could be wrong though, I stopped using in favor of Firefox a looog time ago

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At least since 2015 https://blogs.opera.com/news/2015/07/cool-functions-tabs-in-opera-computers/

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Since 2008! And according to that link, apparently Firefox 3.1 had tab previews back then as well?

https://www.rarst.net/software/enabling-tab-preview-in-opera/

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Oh awesome, been waiting for this!

[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

Also really nice to see the ~10% performance improvement in some workflows in there

[–] PHLAK@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Huh, not a feature I ever thought about but could be nice.

[–] Hobbes@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Now fix the fact that I have too slowly scroll horizontally through all my tabs because they are individually too wide for the number I have open.

[–] folkshore@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's a dropdown next to the tab strip that shows all the tabs (and their titles/names) in a dropdown scrolling list.

Alternatively, the omnibar can search tabs, for the specific one you're looking for. Ctrl+Pageup/Pagedown (and Ctrl+tab) can also fine scrub through the tab strip.

[–] Hobbes@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. I know. It's still the major thing I miss since switching away from chrome. And the extensions available to solve this are severely lacking.

[–] Samueru@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can also fix it with a custom userChrome.css, which lets you set the min and max tab width before they begin to scroll.

In other words you can make it so that if one or two tabs are open they take all the space and the more you open they all shrink equally up to a point.

[–] Hobbes@startrek.website 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Samueru@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

librewolf, but should work on firefox.

Here is mine, it is very keyboard driven so it might not work for you, but you can copy the tab width settings: https://pastebin.com/f5AvQuJu

https://streamable.com/wj7iri

[–] Hobbes@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago
[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago

I think a built in tab manager is a better idea. But we have a lot of plugins for that so guess it's OK.

[–] RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Definitively going to be useful. I’m just wondering if this will work with extensions like Adblock or Dark Reader?