mcc
There is a button in the upper right of my firefox that looks like a chest of drawers. If I click it, it used to let me click "open tabs" and then search my open tabs. Since the last version update, this area is only blank white. Does anyone know why this is happening or how to fix it
Jun 11, 2025 at 7:52pmWeb
Show threadmccJun 11, 2025
I tried closing and reopening firefox to see if this fixes it, I found
- No, it did not fix it
- "Restore Previous Session" opened a whole bunch of windows I meticulously closed before selecting "Exit". I'm kinda growing to hate this program, there's not a single thing it does better than Chrome and many things it does worse
Show threadmccJun 11, 2025
Ugh suddenly it's working again
Is the idea Open Tabs breaks now if you have too many tabs open? Isn't that the exact time you'd want a tab search?
Show threadFabian TranschelJun 11, 2025
@mcc it's better at not being Chrome... but yeah, I feel you...
Show threadmccJun 11, 2025
@ftranschel But it's not good *enough* at not being Chrome. Like both Chrome and Firefox have built in spyware for ad companies, but Firefox's is worse because they don't warn you they're enabling it
Show threadSean KleefeldJun 11, 2025
@mcc I gave up on Firefox about a year ago. I haven't found a current browser I'm really satisfied with though. I'm tempted to see if I can run an old copy of Netscape at this point.
Show threadmccJun 11, 2025

@SKleefeld I have to run something and I don't know what :(

My ESR copy of Firefox is much better than an up to date one, but ESR is like a delay of one year on bad features not a way of avoiding them

Show threadSean KleefeldJun 11, 2025
@mcc I do web work for my day job so I need to keep copies of FF, Chrome and Edge just so I can verify what our users are seeing. It's never a pleasant experience even when the sites are working exactly as they're designed.
Show threadpancelorJun 11, 2025
@mcc alternately, you can type `% hello` in the location bar to search open tabs for "hello". It's a bit confusing but it seems to work ok
Show threadmccJun 11, 2025
@pancelor they have like two different UIs for this for some reason and one of them is better than the other