You damn degenerate vertical tab lovers
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
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They take too much screen space, and my muscle memory is built on horizontal tabs, 2500 of them
They take up the mostly-unused horizontal screen space, though, whereas the vertical space that it frees up is far more precious to me. And I get to see most of the tab titles as a bonus!
I used some css tweak to display a Sidebery on mouseover. But after the latest Firefox update it broke.
On my 1080p display it's taking up too much space, but on an ultrawide it's perfect use of the additional real estate.
I usually keep it in the "icon" view which is pretty space efficient. When you activate the vertical tabs, it also generates a toggle at the top of the window that lets you expand the tabs. I find it is better on smaller screens than the standard horizontal tabs personally.
I have four 40" cheap 4k tvs, I split them in roughly 6 sections
I like it better than the horizontal tabs, but it's still got nothing on the Tree Style Tabs extension. With that you can group tabs together, collapse trees, close trees, etc. Makes it much easier to keep things organized
Wow, I had no idea this was already built in! Thank you!
I wonder why this feature is "Obscured" like this, maybe it's still in beta?
Yeah, pretty sure, it hasn't been officially announced yet, because it is still under development.
Unfortunately they cannot yet be resized on the fly, as instead some vertical-tab extensions allow you to do. But it's a step in the right direction!
Nice, wheres my tab groups?
There is still no built-in solution for nested/tree-like groups, but for creating simple groups Ctrl+N has served me for many years.
Ctrl n is just new tab isn't it? Honesty in the browser tab grouping isn't as critical to me. On my phone where I open too many tabs it would be nice to group them so my random ADHD lookups are grouped together.
New window, not a new tab, which is essentially a tab group. Not an option on a mobile though, you're right.
Yeah, Ctrl t is new tab. New window idea is a good work around.
For anyone interested, Firefox-based browser Floorp (terrible name) has had tab groups and vertical tabs for a while now.
I've been using it for a while now and it's nice and stable.
I'm fancy of the 'Zen' fork. However I just can't get myself to switch off of Firefox for some reason. Idk why, it just works™️ for me
I did use it for a while, but it lags in updates and is missing a feature or two that I needed.
Overall it's great and underrated (or under-represented).
There's an additional option I have set to true, and not sure what else it provides, but it's: sidebar.revamp
Thanks! I added it to the post.
I personally prefer Sidebery, but glad they're finally putting this feature in as a standard feature
Sideberry is good, but you end up with tabs in both places. This option allows you to reclaim the vertical space without need for messing with the chrome css stuff.
They really should have a browser that can have side by side sites so I don't have to keep doing that in the OS. Maybe I should just invent one. I don't know about anyone else but almost all of my workflows at this point are one side reference material and the other side what I'm working on.
There is a very good addon that does this. Tiles WE It toggles splitting your browser in 2/3/4/6 windows tiled, or custom layouts. Also fancyzone and altsnap are great tiling manager https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tile-tabs-we/
Also what is this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tiled-tab-groups/
I'll have to give that a look, thanks.
There is a learning curve, but if that's something you use often enough to remembers all tge capabilities and quirks then it's great. Especially combined with a screen zone manager like altsnap and fancyzone
Zen browser, a Firefox fork trying to imitate Arc (chromium).
Opera can do this, but it's chromium
Also available on LibreWolf with a toggle at about:config.
Helpful to know! I assume it's the same or similar?
It’s a fork of Firefox that enhances privacy/security.
Oh neat!!
Nice! I’ve been running the nightly for this, looking forward to switching back to regular Firefox.
I can but strangely enough not using them is apparently something I can't do, as FF refuses to hide the vertical bar.
Check the link. It includes instructions for disabling it.
Thanks.
Useless without tree and bookmarking/opening as tree.
Tab groups are coming soon.
wooooooo!
Not the same.