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You can already use vertical tabs, by the way. (www.geekersdigest.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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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[–] stickyShift@midwest.social 28 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 6 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

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

Nice, wheres my tab groups?

[–] TheEntity@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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 2 weeks ago

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

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

You damn degenerate vertical tab lovers

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

Thanks! I added it to the post.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] tea@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

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

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Opera can do this, but it's chromium

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago

There's the Side View extension, perhaps?

[–] TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh neat!!

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Check the link. It includes instructions for disabling it.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Useless without tree and bookmarking/opening as tree.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Tab groups are coming soon.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not the same.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 1 week 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.