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Seems reasonable to not mention a specific one by name so as not to play favorites going forward if someone else wants to make a competitor. Or maybe a Grid Style Tabs, or who knows what.

I imagine it's the same tone they use for discussion of adblocker related features, "we need this for content blocking addons" rather than "we need this to support uBlock Origin."

Hiding the top tabs can be done in current versions but you have to go digging through settings folders and set up a css file with some rules. There's also a built-in header on the sidebar than can be hidden by similar means. Hopefully they'll also let us hide that header (it lets you switch to other sidebar views like Bookmarks and History that I don't want to use in the sidebar) so I can avoid the css setup in the future.

https://i.imgur.com/mMlrU1n.png



Definitely reasonable. Just struck me as odd. Maybe there are some other extensions that they have in mind, too.

If someone was looking back at this post, they'd be missing part of the story.


> Or maybe a Grid Style Tabs, or who knows what.

Gangnam Style Tabs. I'd install it.

But yeah, no need to make an extension seem "official" to Firefox by mentioning it by name. Unless it's Pocket, obviously.




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