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You can already use vertical tabs, by the way. (www.geekersdigest.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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I know this is old news by now, but I was not sure how to activate vertical tabs on all of my browsers. It certainly is not obvious, so I wanted to include the instructions here in case anyone else wants to try it out.

Type about:config into the address bar of Firefox. You'll be greeted with a warning that you are accessing advanced settings - click "Accept the Risk and Continue." Search for the boolean preference sidebar.verticalTabs and set to true. That's it! Enjoy your vertical Tabs!

Edit: You may also need to set sidebar.revamp to true if it is not already/automatically set.

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 15 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

They take too much screen space, and my muscle memory is built on horizontal tabs, 2500 of them

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 10 hours ago

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!

[–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 14 hours ago

I used some css tweak to display a Sidebery on mouseover. But after the latest Firefox update it broke.

[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

On my 1080p display it's taking up too much space, but on an ultrawide it's perfect use of the additional real estate.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago

I have four 40" cheap 4k tvs, I split them in roughly 6 sections