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[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 73 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Can’t wait for vertical tabs

[–] Emtity_13@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 7 months ago

Vertical slabs

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I’ve heard a lot of people talk about vertical tabs but personally I don’t see the appeal. Can you explain to me what is desirable about vertical tabs?

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago
  1. You can have tons of tabs open while still being able to read what they are

  2. Moving the tabs to the side of your browser window frees up more vertical real estate which better matches the webpage layout of most websites, which otherwise have wasted space on the left and right sides of the page when viewing them on a computer

[–] jaykay@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Im a simple man, less browser UI = good. I only want to see what I need to see. I’d hide the address bar if it wasn’t cumbersome to use with hover (as in hover at the top of the browser window to show the address bar).

It’s more efficient to stack wide elements on top of each other than next to each other.

Especially with websites that are optimised for mobile which means they use only the middle 60% of the whole 16:9 screen, not to mention ultrawide. So vertical space is needed more than horizontal space.

In addition, you can have the vertical tabs hide the text, so you can only see the favicon, unless hovered over. I basically have a 50px bar on the left and top. So this (without the right sidebar, I’m not at my PC so I stole the photo from Reddit :P) :

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the response! I guess it’s still not for me. I often have several tabs from the same site or tabs from websites who’s favicon I don’t recognize so the text is relevant to me.

When I want more real estate I just go full screen with F11.

As for focusing a hidden address bar, doesn’t ctrl-L do the trick?

[–] jaykay@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It does, but… it’s sounds cool to do everything with the keyboard and all, but in everyday use sometimes you have the mouse in your hand, or only one hand available. I don’t want to be thinking „oh yeah I need to do that instead”, it’s not comfortable anymore, even if it’s not as efficient

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But don’t you need both hands on the keyboard when you type an address?

[–] jaykay@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago

You can type it with one hand. Also, you have other buttons on the top bar, like extensions, settings, arrows, home etc

[–] seadoo@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

But only if it results in reclaimed vertical real estate! Vertical tabs in edge is a a net loss in screen space, which makes it pointless in my opinion

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

No need to wait, Sidebery (add-on) exists and is pretty great

[–] jaykay@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)