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TreeStyleTab
Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2015–2024), in 19 threads.
People raised many different problems with TreeStyleTab, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 22 complaints
- Out of the box, tabs appear and behave unexpectedly, so the user must hunt for the right setting2024-08-08
- Sidebar add-on feels clunky and not integrated compared to native vertical tabs2023-11-12
- Extremely slow with many tabs, unusable on older hardware2023-02-22
- Settings UI is awful; appearance options look ugly or blur together2022-08-18
- Subtree features have a bare, unpolished UI that is hard to use2022-07-17
- Getting rid of the top tab bar requires many tedious tweaks2022-03-14
- Tree view disappears on other actions and closing a tree needs slow confirmation2021-12-10
- Tree-style tab implementations are a hot mess and hard to navigate2021-07-19
- Tree-style tabs aren't searchable, making it hard to find content in large tab collections2021-05-14
- Browser becomes unbearably slow with many tabs when Tree Style Tab is enabled2020-09-19
- After closing a tab, the focused tab seems random; tabs also break at startup2020-09-19
- Browser slows badly with over 100 tabs, stalling a minute on restart2020-05-22
- Sidebar pushes page content, squashing websites into unusable narrow layouts2020-05-21
- Tree-style tabs extension is too slow and laggy to use2020-05-14
- Tab switching and close/new-tab hotkeys don't work properly in tree-style tab plugins2018-12-04
- Hard to tell which tab is active; styling options hard to find2017-12-07
- Collapsed subtree titles stay always visible and cannot be renamed, making groups hard to tell apart2017-12-07
- Selected tab is hard to spot, so user keeps scanning the tree2017-11-21
- Tree-style tabs open in a separate window, which the commenter finds poor UX2017-02-06
- Hard to tell whether dragging a tab makes it a new child or a new sibling2016-09-15
- Extension is completely unusable after upgrading to Firefox 422015-11-05
- Gets laggy when more than a couple hundred tabs are open2015-05-18