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Firefox Devs Working on Tab Previews
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This is a useless feature. Here are some purely UI features that are more important, and exist in Chromium:
browser.compactmode.showofficial!)Apart from that Firefoxes UI is way better than Chromiums and doesnt need to copy anything.
Then work on performance, process isolation etc.
> more compact tab bar, saving space
Not sure if you're aware, but there's a hidden setting to make Firefox's toolbars more compact:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compact-mode-workaround-firefox
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Cool, will try that!
I still use this one:
https://github.com/dannycolin/fx-compact-mode
As I said somewhere else, to get more compact tabs you can go to about:config and search for a setting called
browser.tabs.tabMinWidth, I usually change the number to 20 (the default minimum width is like 70) and tabs are allowed to become roughly as narrow as in chrome. And if by "more compact tab bar" you meant how tall tabs are, there's thebrowser.compactmode.showsetting, put it to "true" and then in the Firefox menu under More Tools → Customize Toolbars you can select "compact mode" in the "Density" menu on the bottom, which makes the tab bar and toolbars shorterNo I meant vertical hight. The horizontal width is way better than in Chromium, same with the "scroll tab feature" which works well better.
That second setting ~~is beta~~ is no longer supported so its not shown
Beta? It isn't experimental, it was an official feature that is no longer supported (even if it still works perfectly).
Oh thats even worse haha.