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Tablet UI for Firefox by Petr

This add-on re-implements the tab bar from desktop we all love, on Android tablets, on Firefox.
It has all the familiar buttons like back, forward, reload and new tab. You can scroll the list of your opened tabs, you can close or duplicate tabs

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The tabs bar, reload, back and forward and new tab buttons, as they look while browsing WikipediaWikipedia with the tab bar position topThere are addon settings you can open. Press the three dots menu, select Addons and then you'll see this screen. Select Tablet UI for Firefox SettingsSelect which buttons you want to see, what font size, and where do you want to display the bar. Don't forgot to press Save options!The menu when you hold the new tab button: it allows you to shift the page up, so you can click the I agree button on cookie prompt on sites like this
About this extension
How to install:
Download Firefox Nightly or Firefox Beta from Google Play
Open Firefox Nightly or Firefox Beta settings, open About Firefox there
Tap the Firefox logo on that page 5 times, the advanced options appear
Go back to see all settings
Under Addons, select Your own Addon collection
Paste the following for user id: 15613358 and for collection name: Android-compatible-addons-by-J
Open the Addons menu in Firefox (three dots - Addons - Addons Manager)
There select the addon you'd like to install. There are currently two, this one and Get RSS Feed URL.

How to use: When you start the app, the tab bar will only see the tab which is loaded. To load more of your tabs, swipe right or left the adress bar or select them in the tab switcher: Due to Firefox restrictions, the addon only sees tabs loaded in memory.

There are also settings: you can set which buttons you want to see, the font size, show the bar on top or on bottom, the tab bar height, the search page used when you press the new tab button.

Sometimes when using the tab bar on top of the screen, cookies prompts may be pushed down: No worries, there is a menu for that (long press the new tab button, see screenshots)

There are some restrictions:
The new tab button can only open websites right now, it can't open the browser new tab: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1782389
It will not work on protected pages like addons.mozilla.org

The project is open source: https://github.com/artisticfox8/Tablet-UI-For-Firefox-Android
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Version
2.5
Size
37.63 KB
Last updated
a year ago (Aug 8, 2023)
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License
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Release notes for 2.5
v2.5 fixed inconsistent tab ordering when a user duplicates a tab

Previosly the correct order of tabs, with the newly duplicated tab being to the right of the original tab, was only shown on that newly duplicated tab. On all other tabs, the newly duplicated tab was shown at the end of the tab list.

Now it all works correctly and consistenly, the newly duplicated tab appears to the right (is the right neighbor of) the original tab on all tabs, is inserted at the correct index.
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