[pkamb]

I would absolutely switch to Safari or Firefox except for the fact that I find Chrome's tab system to be so good.

Chrome tabs load and appear instantly. As you add more tabs they shrink down to a tiny but still usable favicon size. As you close tabs they resize well and with nice little UX behavior like the next close button always appearing directly under your mouse. They close and re-open instantly.

When you press enter in the address bar Chrome always loads your Search, unlike Safari, which often requires second press, or weirdly loses focus. Even doing simple web search feels so slow and broken in Safari tabs. When you have a moderate number of tabs Safari switches to this horizontal scrolling mode where half of your tabs are no longer visible. Basically unusable.

Chrome tabs are so good compared to the standard macOS tabs found in places like Safari and Finder. I wish I could have them everywhere.

[abtinf]

Firefox with tree style tabs is on another level. Firefox also supports lazy loading tabs when restarted, so only pinned tabs and tabs you view consume resources.

I have nearly 1000 tabs open in Firefox and navigate them extremely efficiently. Does chrome do that?

[pkamb]

I don't really want/need to use a new horizontal tab paradigm that supports thousands of tabs. I just want a really good implementation of the standard top-of-the-window tab bar.

[abtinf]

*Vertical

I was lured in initially by the novelty. But it has become an amazing tool for organizing myself. When I browse HN, I shift-click on everything interesting, and it automatically gets organized into a nice collapsible tree.

When I am working on a project, I move search results, project pages, and relevant info to a single tree.

I leave other things open indefinitely, which effectively replaces bookmarks.

[EricE]

Wow - I love to browse the web like that, and that functionality sounds amazing. I’ll have to try it out - thanks!

[montebicyclelo]

I've been using Tree Style Tab [1] in Firefox for a while now. IMO it's much better than standard tabs.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

(To anyone who plans to try it, you may need to edit userChrome.css to turn off the top tabs; there's guides on this. I also recommend tweaking TST's settings, imposing a limit on nesting, and preventing auto switching tabs )