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Unifi teleport. A zero configuration VPN to my home network.

You seem to have a lot of trust in Mozilla. Do you realise that Firefox is developed and maintained by a for-profit corporation called Mozilla Corporation?

So in your opinion, how should the public have responded?

Not sure what you mean by html based. Do you mean web based?

Does this fit your needs?
https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin

Sorry for AI but I couldn’t find it by just googling:

Yes, Firefox did have an in-house developed “Tab Center” — it was an experimental feature created by Mozilla as part of their Test Pilot programme around 2016–2017.

🧪 Mozilla’s Original “Tab Center” Name: Tab Center

Status: Experimental Test Pilot feature (now discontinued)

Timeframe: Circa 2016–2017

Purpose: To explore the usability of vertical tabs on the left side of the browser, instead of the traditional horizontal layout.

🔍 Key Features Displayed open tabs vertically in a sidebar.

Showed a more spacious, scrollable list of tabs.

Included favicons and tab titles — easier to manage lots of tabs.

Supported mouse gestures like tab pinning and closing.

Looked and felt very similar to Edge’s modern vertical tabs.

Many years ago they had an offical extension called “Tab Center”, it had been in “labs” for some time. When it finished testing (it worked well), Mozilla decided to drop it instead of deploying it in Firefox. It wasn’t even in low priority.

It took them many years and they finally implemented vertical tabs in 2024.

Pretty accurate except for “we must focus on the browser”, I’ve never seen/heard them doing that.

I still remember when they cancelled vertical tabs after successful testing.

Tankies are those who support authoritarian governments including the CCP and Russia. Lemmy devs (also the admins of lemmy.ml) are known to be tankies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

That’s why I am using PieFed now. I don’t see any evidence of PieFed devs being tankies.

If you don’t want to see content created by tankies, you can join lemmy.cafe which defederates from lemmy.ml

Or if you want to avoid using software created by tankies, try piefed.social