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.
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
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?
Yeah, pretty sure, it hasn’t been officially announced yet, because it is still under development.
Nice, wheres my tab groups?
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.
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.
New window, not a new tab, which is essentially a tab group. Not an option on a mobile though, you’re right.
Yeah, Ctrl t is new tab. New window idea is a good work around.
There’s an additional option I have set to true, and not sure what else it provides, but it’s: sidebar.revamp
Thanks! I added it to the post.
You damn degenerate vertical tab lovers
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.
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
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).
I personally prefer Sidebery, but glad they’re finally putting this feature in as a standard feature
Oh neat!!
Nice! I’ve been running the nightly for this, looking forward to switching back to regular Firefox.
Also available on LibreWolf with a toggle at about:config.
Helpful to know! I assume it’s the same or similar?
It’s a fork of Firefox that enhances privacy/security.
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.
Zen browser, a Firefox fork trying to imitate Arc (chromium).
Opera can do this, but it’s chromium
There’s the Side View extension, perhaps?
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!
I can but strangely enough not using them is apparently something I can’t do, as FF refuses to hide the vertical bar.
Check the link. It includes instructions for disabling it.
Thanks.
Useless without tree and bookmarking/opening as tree.
Tab groups are coming soon.
wooooooo!
Not the same.
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.
Removed by mod
