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You can already use vertical tabs, by the way. (www.geekersdigest.com)
submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 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/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 59 minutes 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Opera can do this, but it's chromium

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Nice, wheres my tab groups?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 hours 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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Thanks! I added it to the post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Oh neat!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

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