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.

  • Poplar?@lemmy.world
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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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

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      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.

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    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?

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