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I’m sure there’s something out there, but I don’t know what it is. I would encourage your friend to try it out as is. If they try to make Firefox look and feel like Chrome then they will inevitably just want Chrome back. Instead, if they try out things from the Firefox way of doing it they will actually see if they like it for what it truly is. At least, I’ve found the most success with browsers that way, let them shine for what they are and see which I like. Change is always hard, especially in something you use for hours on end every day, but maybe with your encouragement they will be open to it.
Unfortunately this friend is extremely autistic and is having a full-blown panic meltdown due to "they can't see all their tabs without clicking a button". I've been encouraging them for several years to slowly migrate to firefox as they've been suffering crippling performance issues and memory leaks with chrome, but instead of heeding my advice (to slowly acclimate themselves to differences like this) they just found a tutorial to import everything at once and now they're overwhelmed with all the differences happening at once and panicking.
I found the browser.tabs.tabMinWidth setting in about:config and suggested they set that to 0 but it's only a compromise at best and I doubt they will end up sticking with firefox at this rate to be honest.
Are the tab grouping addons not useful, there's so many. I personally don't use them since I'm more of a 0 inbox and under 10 tab kinda person. I'd rather have 3 browsers open for different workflows.
I find it hard to navigate without being able to see the favicon and page name on the tab but if I had many, some sort of auto grouping extension might be immensely helpful.
Thanks for this! I'll toss the info their way and see what they say. As far as I understand from trying to troubleshoot and discuss with them, the really only viable solution is to have all of their tabs visible at once "just like Chrome", so I don't know if the tree-style tabs plugins will fit their needs, but it can't hurt to suggest it.
I really do appreciate the input; It can be frustrating (as an autism myself) to ask "Hey how do I do A" and everyone responds with "don't do A, do B or C instead" but I have to do A for a very specific set of reasons. Even still, it's nice to see that everyone is at least pitching in with extra info and advice, just in case.