I switched from Zen back to Firefox because of bugs and forced features like window sync which many users including myself don't want. I really miss having the entire UI on the side, I really don't care about Zen's other features.
Vivaldi just had a nice update with an auto-hide feature.
I am a fan of vertical tabs but usually it takes up a little too much left hand space for my liking so I'd semi-frequently be adjusting the size depending on if I needed it, now with the recent change all of it gets out if your way until you hover over there, I'm liking it a lot so far.
Both Chrome and Firefox's vertical tabs are so much worse, Edge's somehow the best out of the mainstream browsers imo.
See the SideBery extension. The Firefox Ultima theme helps as well.
Though you still won't get the URL bar on the side, and keeping custom themes up to date is a bit of a hassle.
It's why I made the jump to Zen, you can turn off the tab synchronisation.
I must add that I find it just a little ironic, that you'd switch back to Firefox because of features Zen added, to then ask Firefox to add new features.
(This is meant as an observation, not any sort of personal attack.)
It's valid though, i had to move away from zen because they forced a particular workflow without a way to opt out from it, but I liked most of their UI stuff.
Which aspect of the workflow? I want it to play nice with Temporary Containers but it doesn't want to...
tab syncing and use of workspaces. Disabling tab syncing would break some things back in January, and the developers made it clear that Zen was - out of a sudden - a spaces browser, not a window one. So I jumped ship.
On Windows and many DEs it would be strage to have the window buttons on the left though
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How do you tie the URL bar size to the sidebar size?
You can disable Window Sync on Zen.
This is a FEATURE? I've been frustrated with this "bug" for WEEKS whenever I needed a clean auxiliary browser window with only a tab or two and the hundreds of tabs from the main window got duplicated in the new one making it equally hard to navigate. Sheez.
Yep. I gave it an earnest try but I really don't get it either.
Last I tried that would break other basic things, making it unusable for everyday use, so I just changed browsers. Is it working 100% now?
I faced a barrage of issues when the option first rolled out too, but they've fixed a good chunk of them.
At least for my daily usage I haven't hit any bugs for a while now.
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