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Developer response
posted 7 years agoOn toolbar click on a wrench key, on the most left there is an icon with 3 stripes. It will open Tree Tabs options.
Download some themes from here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3jXQpRtOfvSelFrTEVHZEx3Nms
When you change theme effect is not immediate. Just reload sidebar, for example change sidebar to bookmarks and then go back to Tree Tabs.- Rated 2 out of 5by alex, 7 years agowhat is the point of this if it doesnt hide the tabs at top? they appeared again after I hit "detach tab", on all my windows. also, not a very ergonomic interface, little to no control over size of tabs.... I will not use this. good effort I guess?
- Rated 3 out of 5by SassyBoy1, 7 years agoThis would've been great except that Gmail wouldn't show in the tab tree
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bart, 7 years agoThis replaces everything I used from Tree Style Tabs. Nice work!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ed, 7 years agoFinally a vertical tree style tab manager for FF57.
How do I apply a style once I've changed it? Also please shout once you've fixed the donation link so we can say thank you properly. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12753570, 7 years agoWorks great, if a bit less featureful than the previous addons. CPU/memory usage is much better though, as is speed. So I'm happy.
Enchancement Request: ctrl tab with clicking on currently active tab. This is a huge time saver, and tree style tabs had it. Huge ergonomic advantage. - Rated 5 out of 5by dddiam, 7 years agoI typically have around 250 tabs open in FireFox, and Tree Tabs makes them manageable.
My enhancement request is for "Folders".
A "Folder" is just a dummy tab with a category name on it, into which can be dragged other tabs or trees or sub-folders.
I currently simulate folders by having open, dummy google docs documents, renamed to my desired folder name. Each document is its own tab. So, for example, I can have a google docs document called "STORES" which has a corresponding tab titled "STORES". I drag tabs from Walmart, Target, Home Depot, etc. into the "STORES" tab. Another dummy document called "HEALTH" would provide a tab into which I would drag all of my health-related web pages' tabs.
It would be safer and cleaner, though, to have "folders" implemented directly as part of the Tree Tabs extension. - Rated 3 out of 5by Trouble Panic, 7 years ago+ Tabs in sidebar, good
+ Tabs in a tree, great
- Tabs in a private window don't show up.
- This extension doesn't reorder Firefox's tabs, leading to potentially unpredictable behavior with "next tab/previous tab" keyboard shortcuts. - Rated 1 out of 5by IrishStorm, 7 years agoAvoid Tree Tabs. This so-called extension has no functions at all. There is no interface, no options, no access to content, nothing. So, as to its purpose - none. It simply does not have any.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoCan you please explain? There is options page, there is interface, just select tree tabs from sidebars list. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 11707642, 7 years agoDuplicates tabs on horizontal + vertical. Can't have bookmarks open at the same time. Trees are not apparent enough.
But since it's the only one working for now with the new FF versions that's all we have - Rated 4 out of 5by DoubleATam, 7 years agoOdd that it doesn't change the actual tabs' positions when they're reordered in the trees, and occasionally a tab doesn't show up in the tree.
However, I'll absolutely take it: it's the only thing I've tried so far that preserves my "select multiple tabs, put them in another window" workflow from google chrome. - Rated 4 out of 5by Lizzard, 7 years agoI'm excited to have vertical tabs that are collapsible and configurable as a web extension! Let people know how they can contribute! I am so dependent on tree-style tabs. Thanks very much.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Ben, 7 years agoWorks for my needs for the most part; it has a vertical view of tabs, which can be grouped into collapseable trees, and moved around, exactly as expected. Some major annoyances though! A known Firefox limitation prevents trees from being created automatically (tabs opened from links can't be automatically opened as children, unless you set ALL TABS to get opened as children which is crazy). The "normal" tab bar can't be hidden. Sync features (i.e. "send tab to device"), bookmark features, and possibly other "normal" tab context-menu features are not integrated into the tree tab sidebar. I'm still playing with it to find all the features but it seems pretty solid so far aside from the above!
Developer response
posted 7 years agoWeb extensions are pretty much limited for now, probably there will be some way to sync with other devices, or bookmarking options, in the future, but for sure it won't be soon. openerId is in the works by Firefox folks, it will start working as soon as it's implemented in Firefox, so be patient it will be there.
I will hide tab bar as soon as it will be available, there is an experimental API in the works as well. I have an update in the works to sync tabs on top, so ctrl+tab will work as it should.
I do my best to get all the kinks out. - Rated 4 out of 5by Andy Ross, 7 years agoI'm a long-time fan of the Tree Style Tab extension, but with the coming end-of-life for legacy addons, I decided to try out a WebExtension option. Found this extension via Reddit, and while I agree with previous reviewers that it is still limited (especially the fact that it has zero effect on the native tab bar), as others have mentioned that's more the fault of the in-progress WE protocol than the developers. It does the most important thing, which is let me view all my tabs in a vertical tree.
Just make sure you have the side bar visible, or you won't see your tab tree. Took me an embarrassingly long time to figure that out. :) - Rated 2 out of 5by ArcinHosenka, 7 years agoDoesn't remove the native tabs toolbar like any proper vertical tab extension should, rearranging tabs won't affect native tabs toolbar, and flickers when switching tabs.
It's more of an issue with Mozilla than this add-on, but supporting their decision to remove all existing add-on functionality and use this instead is stupid. - Rated 5 out of 5by Morthawt, 7 years agoI like to have my tabs open. Similarly to Steve Gibson of GRC. Although not "quite" as many as that. I regularly would have 70+ tabs open during a day, probably more. Firefox is terrible, scrolling them etc. I need to see my tabs at a glance. This does the job.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alex Smith, 7 years agoThank you for working on this! FYI - clicking on your PayPal donate link simply takes me to the PayPal homepage :(
Developer response
posted 7 years agoDon't worry about donation. I have some problem with my paypal account, since my card ended few days ago, I have it updated, but still it's kinda suspended. Hopefully it will be resolved soon. Thanks. - Rated 5 out of 5by Aki Sasaki, 7 years agoI was looking for a solution for Tab Groups becoming obsolete with Fx57; Tree Tabs is the solution. The vertical tab bar with tab grouping+collapsing allows me to manage different sets of tabs for different projects. I would love for container coloring support; I think that's all it's missing, besides a built-in dark theme.
I'm able to hide the horizontal tab bar via custom chrome css, a la https://github.com/jonathanKingston/sea-containers#demo-as-sidebar-only - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13133600, 7 years agoWorks well and has a decent feature set. Possibility to change colors and plenty context menu options. Has a few bugs though. Some of the sidebar icons don't work. Unfortunately there is no way to hide the default Firefox tab bar until the new web extension API allows something like that.
I would also appreciate it if tabs opened from links in the active tab were treated as children of the active tab. Currently it is possible to attach all new tabs as children of the active tab, but not those opened from links specifically. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12450072, 7 years agoWorks very well on 64 bit Firefox 54, the sidebar now opens so that issue got fixed. The only problem right now is that, with default settings, when I open new tabs by middle clicking on links on a page, they open at the bottom of the tab list, as if the maximum tree depth is 0 (when it's at the default -1). Setting "append orphan tabs" to "treat as active tab's child" fixes this, but then obviously every tab gets opened as a child of the active one, new tabs, bookmarks, etc. Would appreciate it if you could look at that.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoIt's new web extensions API limitation in Firefox, tab object does not provide "openerTabId", which is present in any chromium browser. New tabs opened from a middle click, ctrl+link click, new tab button or even bookmark will not append to the tree, since new tab does not have any information which tab opened it.
In essence there is no parent/child information.
To somewhat mitigate lack of that, you must set "Append orphan tabs" to "treat as active's tab child" as you mentioned.
Firefox team is working on it and I hope they will not ignore this issue.
For this matter, you can join conversation at:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1238314
I know he has his hands full with other more important bugs, but you can beg Kris Maglione for a fix ;) - Rated 1 out of 5by Michael Cooper, 8 years agoWhen trying to install this add-on, Firefox 56 says the add-on is corrupt.
Developer response
posted 8 years agoThere were internal changes in Firefox that did not allow this extension to install. Firefox team already made a fix and it should install now.
Sorry for the inconvenience. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13071448, 8 years agoIt does not work for me and there is no change after working on addon settings, on FF 53.0.3. But I am looking forward for updates.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12548833, 8 years agoat the time of writing...
- When the addon is disabled/enabled the tree does not appear anymore and requires to clear the addon settings
- it does not hide the tab bar on top
- it has a full customizable theming interface but not have a theme that auto integrated with the current one
- some problems with changing tabs hierarchyDeveloper response
posted 8 years agoPlease don't disable extension, it must be enabled to retain trees. Sidebar can be closed, but extension must be enabled.
With new Firefox API, tabIds are lost after browser restart. Extension must keep track of all tabs positions all the time. This is unfortunately a limitation to all chromium based browsers and Firefox joins that trend.
Hiding tab bar is unavailable from Web extensions for now. Please join conversation at bugzilla to convince Web Extensions team to give us this possibility, here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332447
For now search for an alternative extension that just hides tabbar, for example Hide Tabbar (in this particular one, uncheck reopen tabbar when opening a new tab in options, it does the trick)
theming is another limitation, and will be for all new Firefox extensions. As new sidebar extensions are just web pages with special privileges to have access to firefox API's like tabs favicons, titles, we can activate, move them in tabs strip at the top and so on. Tabs in my extension are not real tabs with changed look, this is just a web page with generated buttons that link events with the browser. All new extension will work this way in the future. I did my best to give it at least color customization. And remember this extension is cross platform, it works in Opera/Vivaldi and now in Firefox, so I can't make colors match only one of the bunch.
Anyway you can download dark theme at (and hopefully you can share yours as well):
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/15332/tree-tabs
Tabs hierarchy management will improve with time as I implement more and more features, and not only me, it depends on Firefox team as well, as for example Firefox does not have "openerTabId", so new tabs opened from middle click will not append to the tree, you must set "Append orphan tabs" to "treat as active's tab child"
For this matter, you can also join conversation at:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1238314
Thank you for testing my extension in this early stage :)