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[–] 132 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Why do you weirdos want tabs on the sidebar anyway?

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  • [–] 113 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Monitors are horizontal, webpages are vertical. Horizontal tabs waste precious space.

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  • [–] 85 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It always bothers me about this whole vertical tab concept, that, on a theoretical level, I'm fully on board with what you're saying. But in practice, I'll often have Firefox tiled side-by-side with another window, and then it's painful for that sidebar to take up any space at all.

    I am happy, though, that this feature is being integrated for the people that find it useful.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago*

    I have a keybind to close the tab side window. Works pretty nicely when i have firefox tiled beside some other window. I don't need to see the tabs all the time. But when i am looking at them; it's nice to have them stacked, on the side.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    But how are you going to read the title of the tab without making the sidebar too wide? That's like having a vertical taskbar in the days before Windows 7 came out.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Exactly. Monitors are horizontal. Tab names are horizontal. They should be listed vertically with the names written horizontally. You can hide them if you need to, but I find my monitor has plenty of space.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    ... you can hide them and only show when you open a new tab ...

    Not like you need your bookmarks at the same time while browsing other pages.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    You won't like the way I do my work. Tabs, everywhere. Multiple browsers.

    I really need things to be as in my face as possible else I WILL forget about it until I'm looking through my assigned JIRAs like 3 months from now.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Try using tree style tabs, it's really great. Most websites are laid out such that there's tons of wasted horizontal space and vertical space is limited, so you increase usable screen space by moving tabs to the side. Additionally, with tabs at the top, the more tabs you have, the harder they are to read and keep organized. With tree style tabs, no matter how many you have, they're always maximally readable, and the ability to nest them and collapse groups gives you a ton of power organization wise. You can also easily hide the sidebar when you DO need the extra horizontal space. The ability to bookmark groups of tabs at once makes it much easier to keep close tabs you aren't actively using.

    We spend so much time using web browsers, why not optimize them for human use?

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