Tabs for web pages in browsers are usually arranged horizontally, on top of the browser window. This arrangement has two disadvantages: First, with many tabs, it becomes impossible to read their titles. Second, horizontal tabs take up valuable vertical space on widescreen displays. The obvious solution is to arrange them vertically. Firefox has several ways to do this. It is one of three features I still miss from Chrome. But there now is a way to turn on a beta version of this feature in Chrome. This post explains how.
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| Horizontal tabs: Vertical space is wasted, tab titles become hard to read. |
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| Vertical tabs: Better use of horizontal space on widescreen displays, titles readable even with many tabs. You can tell that it’s a beta feature, because everything still looks a bit ugly. |
- Windows: Type “about:flags” into the address bar. Enable “Side Tabs”. Restart Chrome [details].
- Mac
- Open Chrome from Terminal like this:
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome -enable-vertical-tabs - If you want to make this more permanent: Rename the binary mentioned above (e.g. to “Google Chrome Binary”) and put a shell script that invokes it in its place [details]:
#!/bin/bash
exec "${0%/*}/Google Chrome Binary" -enable-vertical-tabs "$@"
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10 comments:
Nice one, thanks!
Do you know when that feature will be fully implemented?
(It's not that beautiful right now... ;-))
I don’t know. Let’s hope it *will* become a real feature.
That's, to be honest, a fucking stupid feature.
Well, the same could be said about your comment. Make a point and argue it. What exactly is stupid? Did the arguments I made in the post not convince you? I use vertical tabs with Firefox all the time and could not live without them.
That's stupid because it takes precious horizontal space of the screen..if you think less than 1 cm height tabs takes your precious vertical space...then more than 1 inch width horizontal space must be damn diamond precious...
If you think you cannot read the title with too many tabs opened...open half of your tabs in next browser window...either its tab or window..after all chrome runs in its own process and doesn't make difference in memory anyway....Convincing??????
Whether vertical space or horizontal space is more precious depends on the format of your screen. Nowadays, most displays are widescreen and there is a limit as to how wide you can make most web pages. Thus, vertical space is more precious. Whether you actually like vertical tabs is a matter of taste, but I know many people who, once they’ve tried it, don’t go back.
I love vertical tabs. I have little vertical space and extra horizontal, as is typical for a mac laptop. I tried the above command but got "Unable to obtain profile lock."
nice stuff
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I prefer the use of vertical space made by Opera. They use it for locating the links toolbar
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