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

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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[-] stickyShift@midwest.social 28 points 1 week 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 27 points 1 week ago

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 9 points 1 week ago

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

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week 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 2 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week 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.

[-] Twitches@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

Nice, wheres my tab groups?

[-] TheEntity@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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 1 week ago

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 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] Twitches@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, Ctrl t is new tab. New window idea is a good work around.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

You damn degenerate vertical tab lovers

[-] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

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 week ago

Thanks! I added it to the post.

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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

[-] tea@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week 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.

[-] poplargrove@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week 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).

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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 1 week ago

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

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[-] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Opera can do this, but it's chromium

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

There's the Side View extension, perhaps?

[-] TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

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 1 week ago

Check the link. It includes instructions for disabling it.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago
[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week 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!

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 week ago

Useless without tree and bookmarking/opening as tree.

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 1 week ago

Tab groups are coming soon.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago
[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 15 hours ago

If you open a new tab from a group, it opens in the same group.

It works is a tree, besides being one-level only.

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