Reviews for Tree Style Tab
Tree Style Tab by Piro (piro_or)
1,643 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12877049, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tony, 7 years agoPiro’s TST solution is working well for me.
What I wanted is a visual way to capture my trail as I browse, and that’s what it does. Attempting to try to turn it into tab organizer tends to lead to frustration. I find that a useful constraint—otherwise I’d be organizing tabs all day instead of researching things.
I put TST sidebar on the right, I use “Right side” style of contents, and RTL text direction. Even though I generally browse in English, the general alignment of things with these settings appears to work best for me so far.
I provision custom user chrome CSS in my Firefox profile (hopefully this keeps working) to hide the now-redundant default FF horizontal tab bar and TST sidebar header. I also used TST’s debug mode to tweak a bunch of settings and added bits of custom TST CSS to achieve the desired look & feel (samples in TST’s GitHub repo were a useful starting point).
I use TST with Conex, switching between containers and only showing tabs from currently selected container. I believe I had to fiddle with TST settings a bit to make it work together with Conex smoother, otherwise tabs within the same tree were opening in different containers. (I think it is not TST’s problem that with default settings visual hierarchy gets messed up if tab hiding is on.) In the end it’s hard to keep track of my tweaks and which of them are relevant as the extension gets updated, but it works nicely now.
I wish for an easy way to dump a tree of tabs into bookmarks while preserving the hierarchy in some way (even if it doesn’t let me restore the tree). The primary challenge appears to be that in Firefox a bookmark folder can’t itself be a bookmark, while in TST a tab holds other tabs.
I do encounter a situation where after Nightly’s update & restart, the TST sidebar never gets loaded. Just quitting the browser and opening it again fixes that. So far I haven’t lost tabs and never had tab hierarchy mess up on me, even though I was using pre-release TST builds from GitHub for a while until 2.4.20 came out. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14029626, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12543877, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jonathan Mousserion, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14006752, 7 years agoWas looking for this for ages.
There's always space for improvement (bookmarking a tree w a single bookmark, hiding top tabs...), hope they/you keep up improving it. But it is best I've seen managing tabs - and I've tried several. Congrats! - Rated 5 out of 5by Dobry, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by as3mbus, 7 years agoawesome add-on with good information and howto make it better
- Rated 5 out of 5by alphaa10000, 7 years agoPRO--
Vertical tabs provided by Tree Style Tabs is a wonderful idea. Despite Mozilla's rush to Quantum, at least Piror has provided a version that works (after a fashion) with FF Quantum
CONS--
1. Many of us who use Tree Style Tabs regularly have a great need for its companion extension, "Open Link in New (Tree Style) Tab". OLNT is available for pre-Quantum FF, and works fine, but is not available (yet?) for Quantum.
2. Under pre-Quantum FF, we could create a bookmark of all open TST tabs. Under Quantum, however, we are told Quantum has a bug which prevents our creating a bookmark without prior FF permissions, and are told to use the TST toolbar button to grant ourselves permission to create bookmarks. However, the toolbar button has no explicit control to grant permission, so we still cannot create a FF bookmark of TST vertical tabs.
3. Many of us expected that when we installed the Quantum version of TST, the top-most, horizontal tab bar would disappear, as it always did in pre-Quantum FF. But no-- the horizontal tab bar remains, for some inexplicable reason. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13993728, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by tanyuan, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13976284, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by aacdsee, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Adrian Petrescu, 7 years agoThis extension is the main reason I use Firefox.
One request: I wish settings/custom CSS would use Firefox Sync. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13962436, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by YLT, 7 years agoThis extension is one of the reason I keep using Firefox. Makes it easy to use hundreds of tabs. Has all the functions I need and is still in very active development.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13510862, 7 years agoGreat for organizing tabs. Now this extension and the ones like session managers and tab groups (Panorama) need to integrate with it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12658893, 7 years agoA necessary extension to Firefox. The main reason I use Firefox is for vertical tabs, and this works very very well.
I had a recent problem with TST not initializing, but removing and re-adding the extension fix me right up. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13823631, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 5778919, 7 years agoI can finally organize links in a sane way. Bookmarks are too permanent, while just leaving a pile of tabs is too unstructured. This works.
- Rated 5 out of 5by dorhim, 7 years agoVery helpful with 100+ tabs across multiple windows as it opens a sidebar which is specific to each.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12588275, 7 years agoPut it together with Auto Tab Discard and boom!