Why I still use Firefox
Tree Style Tabs
Tree Style Tabs allow you to have beyond 100 tabs open and see the title for each one and hide horizontal tabs (unlike Chrome)
Get it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
Then hide the horizontal tabs. From chatGPT:
In Mozilla Firefox, you can't directly hide the tab bar through the browser's settings. However, there are workarounds using custom CSS. Here are the steps to hide the tab bar:
First, you need to enable userChrome.css. Type
about:config
in your address bar and hit Enter.Click the button to accept the risk and continue if it shows a warning page.
Search for
toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets
and make sure it's set totrue
. If it'sfalse
, you can change it by clicking on the arrow button.Now, navigate to your Firefox profile directory. You can find it by typing
about:support
in your address bar and hit Enter. Under the "Profile Folder" heading, click on "Open Folder". This will open up your profile directory.In your profile directory, you need to create a new folder called "chrome" if it does not exist.
Inside the "chrome" folder, create a new file called
userChrome.css
if it does not exist.Open
userChrome.css
with a text editor and paste the following code:
#TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse !important; }
Save the file and restart Firefox. Now, the tab bar should be hidden.
Remember that without a tab bar, managing your tabs might become more difficult, as you won't be able to see your tabs or easily switch between them. Also, this method might not work in the future, as Firefox updates may change the browser's structure and the way it uses
userChrome.css
.
And voila, vertical tabs without horizontal tabs.