I switched to Zen a while ago and while for the 'main browser window' it's fantastic I often open multiple smaller windows (in a tiling VM) and hated having to manage collapsing the sidebar. It's done via a keyboard shortcut that seems to break half the time. Tried the new Firefox and I'm already switching back.
Another important feature: HEVC playback on Mac OS X. An increasing amount of video content, especially content recorded on mobile phones, uses HEVC. Inconsistent playback support represents a real barrier to HEVC adoption (among other things), and Firefox support goes a long ways toward making HEVC more widespread.
I don't really care about the vertical tabs, I'm here for the video decoding finally being enabled for AMD GPUs on Linux. While I usually don't have troubles with video playback, it's nice to know it'll be more stable in the future.
I like the vertical tabs but would it have killed them to leave a little more padding at the top of the window so we had something to grab onto? Safari is pretty minimal as well but leaves a little real estate at the top.
I switched to Sidebery long ago. This looks like a move in the right direction, but reading the docs say that it also loads in AI chat and other features? Like Edge? No, thank you. I'll stay on LibreWolf or some variant thereof.
Vertical tabs are awesome. I use them on the right-hand side in Vivaldi, along with thumbnails. It doesn't look like Firefox supports thumbnails, but maybe that's will come in the future.
I look forward to using it when it drops in LibreWolf
@dang can we get a title update?
Firexox -> Firefox.
It'd better not break Sidebery or tables will be flipped.
To update to 136, go to Help > About. Enabling then consists in enabling 'Show sidebar' in Settings > Browser Layout, and then right clicking on the sidebar and enabling 'Turn on Vertical Tabs'. Make sure to also immediately disable the AI Chat that they offer, because of course they do. Could they have done this in a more reasonable way? Probably.
First thoughts, I have to say I like it. I'll probably find something wrong with it, but I've always found it an interesting layout, I might stick to it for the time being.