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by LordLandon 5664 days ago
I've been leaning back towards firefox recently due to how chrome handles large number of tabs: poorly. It'll squeeze them down to the point that they wont even show the favicon, making finding an open page annoying - compared to firefox, which has a minimum tab length, and scrolls the tab bar if it grows too large to fit.

The rest might be a personal prefference, but I rarely use the mouse to close tabs anyway, ctrl+w is faster, and I can hit that as many times as I want without moving the cursor anywhere. I also preffer the / and ' shortcuts firefox has.

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That's why I use FireFox's Tree Style Tabs add-on.
Indeed - the lack of a multiline tab bar for Chrome is mystifying. No extensions do the trick, either.
Just curious, but if you have that many tabs open why not split them into different windows?
If it's split into windows, not only do I have to hover over every tab to find the one that I want, but also repeat the process for every open window.

The alternative is sorting the tabs somehow, but that's more maintance than a middle click.