1mo ago

You can already use vertical tabs, by the way.

www.geekersdigest.com Vertical tabs are here in Firefox (and how to switch back) - Geeker's Digest

After a recent Firefox update, a sidebar shows up and allows vertical browser tabs. How this looks and how to revert to horizontal tabs.

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.

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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.
- There is a very good addon that does this. Tiles WE It toggles splitting your browser in 2/3/4/6 windows tiled, or custom layouts. Also fancyzone and altsnap are great tiling manager https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tile-tabs-we/
  Also what is this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tiled-tab-groups/
  
  I'll have to give that a look, thanks.
  
  There is a learning curve, but if that's something you use often enough to remembers all tge capabilities and quirks then it's great. Especially combined with a screen zone manager like altsnap and fancyzone
- Zen browser, a Firefox fork trying to imitate Arc (chromium).
- Opera can do this, but it's chromium
- There's the Side View extension, perhaps?

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