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> How do I get the old style of tabs back?

Don't know but:

> I need every vertical pixel I can get.

If this is really important to you (as it is for me), try Tree Style Tab (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...). First just installed it to move the tabs to the side, but now I gotten so used to tabs in a logical tree that anything else is a big hassle to use.

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Or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/ as an alternative.

Interesting. How is it better?

Also an user of Sideberry, from my experience it just works a little bit better than TST.

For me, I really liked how it has "panel" functionality that also let me replace Simple Tab Groups, and how nicely that interacts with Multi-Account Containers. I have a panel for work, and when I'm done with work I can switch to another panel for another task and no longer have to look at my work tabs - then the next day I can have just those in my tab bar again.

Tree style tabs used to get very laggy when you have lots of tabs open. Sideberry performed much faster. So I switched to it.

This is the same order of improvement over plain tabs, that tabs were over 1-page-per-window. All browsers should come with this by default, and the fact that they don't is proof to me that UI innovation is stagnating.

Edge and Vivaldi are the two that I know of that have it as an option built in. Opera has a sidebar and uses workspaces to organize tabs now, but they used to have vertical tabs in the past.

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