Tip #818
Choose which Panels to display on the browser’s sidebar.
The sidebar gives you quick access to important tools without pulling you away from the tabs you’re working in. It’s up to you to decide which Panels to display there and which to hide.
To customize the list of Panels:
Vivaldi Tips+ “Customize Panel” button on the sidebar.
@nicemicro have you looked at the #firefoxsecondsidebar project? once you set it up you have a magnificent second sidebar [more powerful than those in vivaldi, floorp] with excellent granular settings, in which you can place #WebPanels of any site, & many AddOns, of your choice, thence [should you choose to configure it this way], easily do your
browse the web on one side and chat on the other sidehttps://github.com/aminought/firefox-second-sidebar@MsDropbear42 @floorp Well well well, how nice! 💃💃
Floorp Daylight aka Floorp 12 Beta, Version [email protected] as available 11 hours ago at https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-12/releases/tag/beta, has made a major jump forward in features & reliability.
Atm the native #Firefox #TabGroups do not respect Workspaces, ie, persist across all of them, unlike ordinary tabs which now do stay in their respective WS. Thus my next focus of interest will be to see if coming Betas manage to fully integrate these Groups into the Workspaces.
TLDR: This latest Beta is such that i can now seriously consider the possibility of using it as more than just a curiosity, & as an actual daily browser.
@fnwbr And yet, here i be, revelling in the delightful UX that is my 
, with all the #telemetry disabled, the #AI disabled, numerous other parameters hardened via my #userJS, with the exquisite #Sidebery & its infinitely-nestable tree-tabs & multiple #Workspaces on its LHS, & the brilliant project #FirefoxSecondSidebar with my 21 #WebPanels on its RHS. It's such a great daily browsing UX, unfazed by the last ten days of global #FUD [all the so-called nasties can be disabled, either via simple clicks in the Settings UI, or otherwise via about:config / user.js]. Herd-mentality is a ridiculous trait of humans. 🙄🤦♀️
#FirefoxNightly + #Mv2 #uBO + #Sidebery + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = THE best browsing & sophisticated tab management + Web Panel UX i've ever had, easily eclipsing Vivaldi, 
#Floorp, 
#ZenBrowser, Waterfox, LibreWolf... ergo = 💜🥳🎉👯♀️
#FirefoxNightly + #NativeVerticalTabs + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar = Very usable already as of Feb 2025, albeit less powerful than Sidebery, ergo = 💜 🎉
Have decided to give #ZenBrowser another go, but with conditions:
In case anyone wonders, this [temporary?] change from my hitherto daily [#FirefoxNightly + #Sidebery + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar] has nothing to do with the recent global #FUD wrt Mozilla's #TOU / #EULA, but instead is due to the aesthetic pleasantness of & the desire to use its #SplitTabView #TabSplitView #TabPaneView; two undeniable advantages over Nightly.
* the Zen subreddit is full of users posting that Zen spontaneously lost all their tabs, or all their pinned tabs, or all their unpinned tabs. In my own past months of using Zen with its native #Workspaces & tabs, it also happened to me, twice, & it is most exasperating.
A Firefox userChrome.js script that brings a second sidebar with web panels like in Vivaldi/Edge/Floorp but better. - aminought/firefox-second-sidebar
Tip #624
Turn Extension pop-out dialogs into Web Panels.
Some Extension dialogs can be quite complex. To make using them easier, you can convert the pop-out dialogs into Web Panels.
To add an extension to Web Panels:
It’s not guaranteed to work with all extensions, but most should behave just fine.
@dec_hl There is so sooooooooo much bullshit, #FUD & outright lies being spread about #Firefox lately. Don't want #AI in it? Fine, simply keep the setting disabled [as i do]. Don't want to be involved in the weirdarse ads thing mozilla did a few months ago? Fine, also keep that setting disabled [as i do]. Maybe Firefox will cease to be if gargle is forced to stop funding Firefox Search? Ok, if/when that happens, it would be time to find another browser, but it has not happened yet & might not happen at all, so running away screaming with hands waving in the air now, as many seem to advocate, is stupid.
My daily browsing experience continues to be magnificent with #FirefoxNightly + #Sidebery + #uBlockOrigin + #FirefoxSecondSidebar [for #WebPanels].
#Floorp 11 was nice to use for a while, but its replacement 12 is months late with minimal public info easily found.
#ZenBrowser recently progressed from Alpha to Beta status, but i stopped using it several weeks ago in frustration at the wild swings in browser design the Dev keeps trying. Certainly though it will be worthwhile revisiting once it reaches Stable phase.
Personally i will never ever use Chrome under any circumstances, only occasionally launch Chromium under sufferance, abandoned Vivaldi a couple of years ago, & also dislike Brave... so if the day does ever arise when FF is no more, the remaining choice will be odious indeed.
Tip #610
Reopen closed Web Panels instead of adding them again.
Adding new Web Panels is pretty straightforward in Vivaldi, but when it’s a Web Panel you’ve already had on your browser’s sidebar, it’s even easier to restore it.
To reopen a Web Panel:
with #Sidebery became my new home instead, despite lacking that extra sidebar. Much more recently, #Floorp 
crossed my radar, replete with a Vivaldi-esque WP sidebar, & i was smitten. It does, however, have some issues i dislike, but i tolerated them for the overall good. Then #ZenBrowser 
arrived, & i had a new love, albeit its unusual WP implementation is less convenient than it should be. Atm both & seem to be heading in design directions less attractive to me, so the age-old quandary continued. Then, a few days ago, i serendipitously stumbled onto this fab project https://github.com/aminought/firefox-second-sidebar, & now i'm as happy as a porcine creature in biological byproduct... with a dedicated second sidebar incorporating customisable #WebPanels. 🎉 🥳 👯♀️A Firefox userChrome.js script that brings a second sidebar with web panels like in Vivaldi/Edge/Floorp but better. - aminought/firefox-second-sidebar
Tip #600
Create Keyboard Shortcuts for opening and closings individual Web Panels.
Keyboard Shortcuts are excellent for opening and closing Web Panels for a quick glance. But before you toggle Web Panels with Keyboard Shortcuts, you need to assign each panel its unique shortcut.
To add Keyboard Shortcuts:
Then whenever you want to open one of the web panels just use the shortcut for both opening and closing the panel. If you already have one open, the shortcut will switch focus to the one you need.
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