Hi! With all the stuff going on I want to switch to Firefox. I got incredibly used to the sidebar in Opera Though and really want something similar.

E.g. Having WhatsApp in the side tab and not in the header tabs (so I can’t close it accidently) or different t workspaces for different projects has proven incredibly helpful. Also on opera I can open 2 Windows with the same workspace and get different tabs making it really useful for programming.

I’ve looked around for plugin like that but could only find one where the tabs were also shown on the side and the top.

If anyone could help me here that would be great, I am really on the fence of switching to way land and ff on my machine.

  • morrowind@lemmy.ml
    5·
    1 year ago

    I think you’d prefer floorp instead. It’s firefox/gecko based (I believe that’s your main concern?) but has many features inspired by vivaldi/opera, including workspaces, web panels, vertical tabs…

    • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 year ago

      Workspaces in flooro are poorly implemented though I would still suggest flooro as well. With the sidebery extension you can get some very good organization done

    • zweieuro@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      thanks! I’ve tried this but in the end its just a different way of displaying but i want groups to be contained differently as well

      • Lemmchen@feddit.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        Firefox has a concept that is called containers, but it’s less a visual separator and more of a logical isolation layer (with separate cookies, etc.). Maybe this could work for you? I believe you can make different containers have different tab colors, but I’m actually not sure about that.

  • olicvb@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    having switched from opera gx to firefox, Panorama-tab-groups did the trick. Combined with https://github.com/Godiesc/firefox-gx and it’s extra addons.

    One improvement i discovered was that no matter the window the tabs are accessible. Opposed to opera where each groups’ tabs were tied to it’s window, and you couldnt open the tabs from one windows into the other by clicking on the tab group.

    • zweieuro@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the tip! I actually consider what you call an advantage a disadvantage and visa versa. I always have 2 opera windows open side to side (on i3) and like that they are not the same