I tried this last night and I actually really like it. The default theme seems to have changed also and looks much cleaner.
And you can have AI models open in the sidebar. Not only chatgpt but also other open source and free models like huggingface. I thought that was very cool.
I don’t know if the general public have even tried any other model than chatgpt. It’s fun to play around with others.
The fact that their page doesn’t even show a screenshot of the new feature doesn’t bear well for how popular it’s going to be. I’m already going into it with a I probably won’t like this attitude and that doesn’t help
Well, I tried it and it looks good. I’m glad they are adding something new to the browser. It’s been a long time since that happened it feels like.
It’s buggy still though and still in development.
Finally vertical tabs, have been missing those
I have a custom FF theme that, combined with a tab tree extension, gives me a vertical layout, but it’s still kind of hacky. It will be nice to finally have fully supported vertical tabs.
Years ago, I used an extension called Tree Style Tab. It’s better than just vertically displaying tabs. New tabs open as children, and you can collapse branches, so things stay organized when you have a ton of tabs.
Another popular one is sideberry, which is a variation of the same thing. :)
I think I like the direction they’ve been going in lately.
I can’t wait for vertical tabs! I can finally stop using so many plug-ins.
Though the AI stuff, it’s so much better to get a dedicated program or app for them, I do not need an AIO browser for freaking AI.
I actually prefer to just integrate the AI stuff into my usual chat apps [1]. I don’t see much point in building a whole new app (except to get more control over the settings, but for most people even that’s probably unnecessary)
