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You can already use vertical tabs, by the way. (www.geekersdigest.com)
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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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[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 33 minutes ago

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!

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

You damn degenerate vertical tab lovers

[–] 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

[–] poplargrove@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 43 minutes ago)

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

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

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).

[–] stickyShift@midwest.social 24 points 1 day ago

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

[–] digital_man@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, pretty sure, it hasn't been officially announced yet, because it is still under development.

[–] Twitches@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nice, wheres my tab groups?

[–] TheEntity@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Twitches@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TheEntity@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

New window, not a new tab, which is essentially a tab group. Not an option on a mobile though, you're right.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 10 hours ago

There's the Side View extension, perhaps?

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

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/

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'll have to give that a look, thanks.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] ted@sh.itjust.works 5 points 21 hours ago

Zen browser, a Firefox fork trying to imitate Arc (chromium).

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Opera can do this, but it's chromium

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I can but strangely enough not using them is apparently something I can't do, as FF refuses to hide the vertical bar.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Check the link. It includes instructions for disabling it.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 15 hours ago

Thanks.

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's an additional option I have set to true, and not sure what else it provides, but it's: sidebar.revamp

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks! I added it to the post.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I personally prefer Sidebery, but glad they're finally putting this feature in as a standard feature

[–] tea@lemmy.today 1 points 29 minutes ago

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.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also available on LibreWolf with a toggle at about:config.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Helpful to know! I assume it's the same or similar?

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

It’s a fork of Firefox that enhances privacy/security.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml -1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Useless without tree and bookmarking/opening as tree.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Tab groups are coming soon.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

Not the same.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Oh neat!!

[–] TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Nice! I’ve been running the nightly for this, looking forward to switching back to regular Firefox.