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[–] XLE@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Odd seeing Mozilla roll out a feature that already existed as a 3rd-party (and recommended!) add-on, but at least it's not AI.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Vertical tabs were also available with a recommended add-on but it was awkward and sometimes glitchy. If this for instance gets synced it could be a more integrated experience than an add on

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Vertical tabs were definitely a hack via a sidebar. But this extension looks like it works just fine with Mozilla's APIs, and even if it didn't, Mozilla could just fill in the missing APIs instead. (Container Tabs is a good example of this.)