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Chrome tab bar reduces width and overflows, Firefox tab bar scrolls

That’s makes chrome more power user friendly. Sadly

To me it's the opposite! I'm a tab hoarder. A tab bar like ||||||||||||||||||| is unusable, but Firefox's approach scales infinitely (and I'm on track to have inifinity+1 tabs open)

When I get to ||||||||||||||||||| situation, I just close the browser and start fresh and then type in sites I had opened if I remember any. I am left with just a few really important to me at the time and I find this less distracting.

I’m a tab hoarder as well. I often have 500+ tabs open.

Usually that means I open a ton of windows and can still see all the tabs in each window

Firefox also has vertical tab extensions you could switch on as needed.

Vertical tabs mean that all web sites (that are usually built to be somewhat symmetric) are no longer centered on the screen

I don't understand that complaint, but I rarely maximize my browser.

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