"wasted" / spent 60' - 90' this morning investigating the latest #Floorp  update, v12.12.0, to ascertain if it might warrant me wandering back to it again as my default #browser, instead of my long-term stalwart  #FirefoxNightly

eventually decided it's not yet worth it

Pro

• via the optional #Flasco experiment, FF's current #SplitTabs limits of only two tabs & only vertically split, is improved to four tabs with also horizontal & grid splits
• Nightly's new #TabNotes function now also works in FF 149, ie, also Floorp
• Zen mode option

Con

• Floorp's tab-splitting operation tends to wreak havoc on #Sidebery's tab management
• Zen mode is a novelty-only for me, rather than actually helpful
• Nightly's fab new native emoji selector popup Ctrl + . function is not yet available in 149, ergo Floorp
• [this is a joke remark] Floorp's experimental mode name of "Flasco" is really unfortunate, coz it constantly seems to me like "Fiasco" when written then carelessly read

https://blog.floorp.app/en/release/12.12.0/

• The Zen Mode has been added. This provides users with a simple and calm environment to help them focus on their work.
  • The Zen Mode is designed to help users focus on web content by minimizing the browser interface and eliminating notifications and other distractions. By enabling The Zen Mode, users can enjoy a more comfortable browsing experience. This feature can be toggled on and off by clicking the toolbar icon, using mouse gestures, or keyboard shortcuts.

and

• Split View can now be divided into up to 4 panes. Additionally, Split View state is now preserved after browser restart, and three layout options are available: vertical, horizontal, and grid. [Floorp Flasco]
  • While Firefox 149 introduced a Split View feature, this Floorp update improves upon it and customizes it to be more feature-rich to better suit Floorp. The current maximum is 4 panes, but we are considering increasing this in the future. However, since this is a very complex feature, it will undergo beta testing through Flasco for a while, and we plan to improve it based on user feedback.

oh wotta highly irritating article name!

makeuseof.com/why-2026-is-offi…

given i am passionately following progress of the Project Banana / KDE Linux atomic immutable project, & read everything i come across about it, when i saw this article prominently headlined with "KDE Linux" i jumped on it with glee.

pffffft, it's nothing of the kind, being merely a poorly named article about the Plasma DE itself, not the actual [alpha] distro. baaaah! 🙄🤦‍♀️

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
 #Kinoite |   #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma
 #SparkyLinux |  #Kalpa |   #KDELinux
 #FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #TreeStyleTab #Sidebery

 💟

#FirefoxNightly with #NativeSplitTabs, + #FirefoxSecondSidebar + #Sidebery = 💃🥳🎉💯
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.#FirefoxNightly with #NativeSplitTabs, + #FirefoxSecondSidebar + #TreeStyleTab + #SimpleTabGroups = 💃🥳🎉
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#FirefoxNightly with #NativeVerticalTabs and #NativeSplitTabs, + #FirefoxSecondSidebar + #SimpleTabGroups = 💃🥳
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#DropbearPooterising #LinuxWomen

after a coupla months running my main panel / dock at the top of the screen, to get reacquainted with the boring existence of the dirty proles, i have now returned it to the rhs edge of the screen, just as #TheGreatProphetZarquon intended 🤪 🙃

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
 #Kinoite |   #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma
 #SparkyLinux |  #Kalpa |   #KDELinux
 #FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #TreeStyleTab #Sidebery

yesterday arvo my once-beloved ArchLinux Plasma primary-boot once more summarily froze solid again [even ignoring REISUB again], as has been happening now randomly for many months or maybe a year'ish, after years & years & years of never doing so. as i was planning on still doing my weekly updates on sunday, it meant it still only has Plasma 6.5.5, not 6.6.0. anyway, in my increasing dotage & senility, i have grown disinterested over the past 18 months in needing to still do the occasional forensic troubleshooting & finessing of Olden Days Of Yore... plus, this latest freeze, ipso facto the complete disjuncture to my work in hand til that point, infuriated me completely, sufficient to reboot into my tertiary-boot, Fedora Kinoite, & keep going with what i was doing there... after first running updates on it then rebooting again.

accordingly, credit to the marvellous Fedora Plasma Devs & Maintainers, it now runs Plasma 6.6.0 too. one of the things i was keen to try was the new #Spectacle, with its #OCR text extraction tool. this works ootb, not needing me to fart about manually installing #tesseract as i have been reading needs to happen in other distros. so that's pretty lovely, however, not at all lovely, & indeed triggering a bout of out-loud swearing by me, was this discovery... it uses Merkan English, not proper english, ie, pommie or strayan. oh yuck, i feel so dirty now. merkan is to english as magamoron is to decency, morality, ethics, education, empathy, kindness, compassion...

🙄🤦‍♀️

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
 #Kinoite |   #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma
 #SparkyLinux |  #Kalpa |   #KDELinux
 #FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #TreeStyleTab #Sidebery

#USPol #TuckFrump #FuckRWNJs #magamorons #FuckChristoFascists #FuckAllReligion #OrangeOaf #HeyFascistCatch

I hate the way my browser and tabs are this ever-growing fluster cluck of disorganized piles of sites. I've tried various solutions across various browsers. Now that I'm using #LibreWolf I tried to get serious in this one.

I installed #Sidebery and I really want to use it and like it. Thus far I find it a complete headscratcher. I can configure panels but if I change the name then every panel in every window gets that name? Is the idea that I have few windows with more panels and I switch amongst them?

I like the snapshots in principle. I like the idea of exporting in MD format and syncing it to my #Obsidian repo so I have an insight into my browsing and history that way. It shows each window and their title. Windows have titles? How do I change that?

I'd love to read the documentation on this add-on but apparently there isn't any. Just random Reddit threads with people shouting "Just use Sidebery, dumbass" to each other.

This feels like a tool almost what I want and that the delta between what I understand now and would need to know to use it properly is small but I don't know how to bridge it. These are the kinds of things that make me tired when I use modern technology.