About this extension

This is a Firefox add-on which provides ability to operate tabs as "tree".

New tabs opened from the current tab are automatically organized as "children" of the current.
Such "branches" are easily folded (collapsed) by clicking on down-triangle shown in a "parent" tab, so you don't need to be suffered from too many visible tabs anymore.
If you hope, you can restructure the tree via drag and drop.

Such a tree of tabs will behave like a visual browsing history for you.
- For example, if you see a list of search results for a topic, you'll open each search result link in new child tab.
- For more details you'll also open more descendant tabs from them.
- You'll easily dig and dig deeply, without lose your browsing trail - if you hope to go back to the original search result, you just have to switch to the "root" tab.
Moreover, you'll treat tree of tabs just as "grouped tabs" for similar topics.

Anyway this addon just provide uncolored "tree" feature.
Please enjoy as you like!

Tips:

"F1" key toggles the TST sidebar.
"Tree Style Tab" toolbar button also toggles the sidebar. If it's unnecessary, you can remove it from the toolbar.

Helper addons:

There are some addons extending usability of TST's sidebar.

Multiple Tab Handler allows you to select multiple tabs with long-press on tabs. It also allows you to close mutiple tabs with long-press on the closebox on tabs.
TST Bookmarks Subpanel allows you to show a small "Bookmarks" sidebar panel below tabs in the TST's sidebar.
TST Active Tab in Collapsed Tree shows a small tab on a collapsed tree as an alias for the last active tab under the tree.
TST Lock Tree Collapsed allows you to lock arbitrary trees as collapsed. (This was a built-in feature on TST 3.3.0-3.3.6, and now separated.)
TST Tab Drag Handle provides a small tooltip on tab labels to start dragging of tabs for specific operations. (This was a built-in feature on TST 2.6.0-3.3.6, and now separated.)
TST Open Bookmarks as Partial Tree allows you to open only some bookmarks in a folder as a partial tree. Moreover, it also provides ability to open tree of container tabs from bookmarks.
TST-MiddleClick allows you to run "undo close tab" or "close currently active tab" command on middle click on the sidebar.
Tree Style Tab Mouse Wheel allows you to switch active tab by wheel scrolling.
Tab flip for Tree Style Tab allows you to move focus to the tab previously focused, by clicking on the active tab.
Tree Style Tab Focus Preceding Tab on Close focuses the previous tab instead of the next tab when a tab is closed.
Tab Unloader for Tree Style Tab allows you to unload tabs by clicking on them in the sidebar.
Move unloaded tabs for Tree Style Tab allows you to move tabs in the sidebar without them becoming active.
Tree Style Tab in Separate Window allows you to open the Tree Style Tab sidebar page in a new window.
Auto Tab Discard supports the fake context menu in the Tree Style Tab sidebar.
UnloadTabs supports the fake context menu in the Tree Style Tab sidebar.
Bookmark Tree for Tree Style Tab allows you to bookmark and restore trees.
TST Hoverswitch allows you to switch tabs by hovering over them.
TST Colored Tabs gives custom background color for tabs based on their domain.
Add Last Active Class To Tab helps you to give custom appearance for the "previously active tab".
TSTのタブを閉じるボタンの挙動を変更 (tst-change-close-tab-button-be) allows you to close the parent and its all descendants with a middle click on the closebox of a parent tab, whether the tree is expanded or collapsed.

Latest information is available at the repository.

Developer comments

## Similar projects

*Tree Tabs:
Cross-browser, more powerful faatures, and high customizability.
(One large difference between TST is: the design strategy.
TST is aimed to keep it simple and work together with other addons as possible as it can.)
* Tab Center Redux:
Vertical tab bar without tree.
* sidebarTabs:
Vertical tab bar with grouped tabs.

Some Google Chrome extensions made by someone not me also provide similar feature.

* Sidewise Tree Style Tabs
* Tabs Outliner
* Tree Style Tab for Chrome

## Public API for other addons

For addon authors, Tree Style Tab provides public API. If your addon provides extra context menu items for context menu on tabs, you can easily support TST's context menu with small changes. For more details, see the API document.

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Release notes for 3.5.7

3.5.7 (2020.7.6)

Process redirection of shorthand URI (ext+treestyletab:*) with query parameters correctly.

3.5.6 (2020.7.5)

Group "Close Tabs to the Bottom" and "Close Other Tabs" context menu items under a submenu "Close Multiple Tabs", like Firefox 78 does.
Add ability to restore the recently closed set of tabs, triggerred with a restoration of tabs in the set.
Activate/deactivate the animation effect for updating of indentation with the animation option.
Deactivate all animations automatically when animation effects are disabled by the platform itself.
Add ability to configure middle click on the new tab button same as Ctrl-click.
Quicken detection and grouping of new tabs opened from a bookmark folder.
Show the container name in the tooltip on container tabs, like Firefox does.
Better container support in group tabs.
Add ability to change column width in group tabs. Now custom style definition like :root.group-tab { --column-width: 30em; } does it.
Cancel TST's default action for click on tabs more correctly, via API notifications tab-mousedown and tab-mouseup.
Add ability to open the sidebar in separate window with the URI ext+treestyletab:tabbar?windowId=(Window.id). This change should help addons like the TST in Separate Window.
The count of opened tabbar pages are now notified to helper addons via the sidebar-show and sidebar-hide notification APIs.
Better responses for tab switching on Firefox 79 and later, with the new API browser.tabs.warmup().
Reduce the total amount of sync storage a little, and cleanup of needless sync data. It is limited until 100KB, and please remind that you cannot put data larger than 16KB for each option especially custom style rules.
Update ru locale by wvxwxvw. Thanks!

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