Tab groups is what made me drop Chrome on mobile. I don’t care if it’s an option, but it’s not just the default now, it’s the only option on Chrome mobile.
I’m using Firefox for both mobile and desktop and I cannot believe how much better they are than Chrome now.
And the thing that made me completely drop Chrome from desktop was the forced sidebar search. I implemented a complicated workaround twice, but the third time it broke I just had enough.
On Chrome, you can join tabs into a colored group with a name and then collapse that group so that it occupies considerably less space in the bar. Useful to organize your browsing into tidy buckets.
On Firefox, there’s no adequate innate manner of doing that. But the browser has an add-on called simple tab groups that uses a native “hidden tabs” feature to make a similar approach. The difference is it adds a button to the left that becomes a drop-down menu, and each of the entries is a colored and named group, and pressing one, hides the rest and bring up the tabs you previously in the one selected.
I find either just as good, and instrumental to browsing. For example, I have a red group just for YouTube, where like 20 tabs are open and to or from which I occasionally drag a tab.
The other issue for me is ‘desktop site’. Firefox doesn’t remember your choice long term or short term. Every time I leave the app for more than 10 seconds it refreshes the page and resets that setting.
Chrome will remember that setting even across new tabs. It’s important to me because I have half a dozen self-hosted services I manage mostly from mobile and I find them all easier to use with that on. I use desktop sites from mobile more than any other webpages on any platform.
The only thing keeping me from Firefox is native tab groups, I use that all the time.
Tab groups is what made me drop Chrome on mobile. I don’t care if it’s an option, but it’s not just the default now, it’s the only option on Chrome mobile.
I’m using Firefox for both mobile and desktop and I cannot believe how much better they are than Chrome now.
And the thing that made me completely drop Chrome from desktop was the forced sidebar search. I implemented a complicated workaround twice, but the third time it broke I just had enough.
I’m loving Firefox.
What does that do? Never heard about that
On Chrome, you can join tabs into a colored group with a name and then collapse that group so that it occupies considerably less space in the bar. Useful to organize your browsing into tidy buckets.
On Firefox, there’s no adequate innate manner of doing that. But the browser has an add-on called simple tab groups that uses a native “hidden tabs” feature to make a similar approach. The difference is it adds a button to the left that becomes a drop-down menu, and each of the entries is a colored and named group, and pressing one, hides the rest and bring up the tabs you previously in the one selected.
I find either just as good, and instrumental to browsing. For example, I have a red group just for YouTube, where like 20 tabs are open and to or from which I occasionally drag a tab.
Sideberry is really good and can do all of that and much more. You need to have a custom userChrome.css to hide the native tab bar though
The other issue for me is ‘desktop site’. Firefox doesn’t remember your choice long term or short term. Every time I leave the app for more than 10 seconds it refreshes the page and resets that setting.
Chrome will remember that setting even across new tabs. It’s important to me because I have half a dozen self-hosted services I manage mostly from mobile and I find them all easier to use with that on. I use desktop sites from mobile more than any other webpages on any platform.