[igornadj]

Unrelated, why don't any non-chromium browsers do tabs like Chrome?

Taking personal preference out of it completely, it would seem the most used browser by virtue of this fact has the best UI, so why not just copy it?

I'm anticipating replies along the lines of, Chrome doesn't have the best UI, but the numbers don't lie, something is going on. Even just offering it as an option would be a good way to test the theory. (I know Firefox has themes and customisations to make it similar, but it's not the same, it's a hurdle and the end result isn't the same, and Mozilla doesn't seem interested in making this pursuit easy).

[chiefalchemist]

> Taking personal preference out of it completely, it would seem the most used browser by virtue of this fact has the best UI, so why not just copy

If that were the case, yes. But that's not how Google achieved such controlling market share.

[cassianoleal]

What does "do tabs like Chrome" mean?

[ntp85]

OP might refer to tab grouping being readily available in Chrome whereas Firefox requires additional add-ons for it.

[desdenova]

Why would I want to "group" tabs though? Is it something related to that disease people have of hoarding thousands of tabs instead of just opening what they actually need?

[rgreekguy]

Chrome's tab groups implementation is pretty nice. I used it at work, very neat. Having tabs grouped by ticket, I might not work on one ticket today, I can collapse the group. Of course, like its tabs, it's only good in small numbers, and in small names...

[lxgr]

Why do you think you know what other people actually need?

[sethops1]

Probably how Chrome (and recently, Safari) segregate profiles by window. It makes keeping work tabs and personal tabs (for example) very simple / obvious.

[mtndew4brkfst]

IIUC this has been well supported by Firefox for a couple years I think, via a first-party extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

There's a specific sibling extension for isolating Facebook, too.

[igornadj]

I mean copy them exactly, off the top of my head:

- some browsers do tabs below the address bar

- Firefox has tab scrolling, minimum tab widths, and the tab itself is a floating box, not a part of the page visually.

- Firefox's address bar is also different, to me it seems potentially also should be A/B tested with directly copying Chrome

[cassianoleal]

> - some browsers do tabs below the address bar

Not Chrome though, so I don't see the relevance. I also don't like it. The address is relevant to that tab only, so it should be hierarchically inside it.

> - Firefox has tab scrolling, minimum tab widths, and the tab itself is a floating box, not a part of the page visually.

So, visual tweaks? Fine, but I don't see how that would improve UX massively.

> - Firefox's address bar is also different, to me it seems potentially also should be A/B tested with directly copying Chrome

Perhaps. Or maybe there's a lot of people who prefer Firefox's. In any case, again - visual tweaks?

I really don't see how any of those would bring great improvements to the Firefox experience.

[pxc]

> it would seem the most used browser by virtue of this fact has the best UI

This doesn't follow at all. It's not how anything does or ever has worked. Consider your claim in the context of the days of IE6, if this is not obvious to you upon reflection.

[lxgr]

I use Chrome only because it’s required at work and I’ve never missed any part of its tab functionality on my personal computer. Specifically, I’ve found tab grouping quite clunky.

I’d much rather be able to assign colors to entire windows and use these as my groups (I already have muscle memory for switching between these on all OSes), but that doesn’t seem to be possible.

[desdenova]

Chrome does tabs exactly like Firefox has done for years, though. Except it uses 10x more RAM than Firefox.