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The Arc Browser Is Dead (www.howtogeek.com)
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why do people want vertical tabs? It feels as if it just takes up more space, and my muscle memory after all these years makes me move to the top. I always go back to horizontal tabs after using vertical tabs for a day.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Because web content is increasingly mobile and vertical-oriented. So the horizontal space is usually empty anyway.

    Sometimes new things take time to get used to but if you try it for more than a single day you may find that you like it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Makes sense. The sites I am using most probably have not adopted the new style yet. And like I said, the hardest part is the muscle memory of looking at the top for my tabs and moving my mouse to the top to select a tab.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    because when you have more than 8 tabs open on a horizontal tab row, the tab handles start to become narrower and tab titles become unreadable and almost useless. with vertical tabs tab titles can be as long as you see fit, and the tab title does not take away space from other tab handles so more can fit. essentially its more space efficient I think.

    but I don't use it because my firefox theme breaks down when I set up vertical tabs, and everything will be white, even though I don't even use userchrome customizations

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