Google Chrome Labs (Featuring Tabs on the Left)

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by stanleydrew • 16 years ago

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niyazpk• 16 years ago

Opera supported this for a long time now: http://www.diovo.com/2008/01/better-way-to-manage-tabs-in-yo...

I wish all the major browsers support tabs on the Left feature. This would be really helpful to people who open a lot of tabs or use wide-screen monitors.

siim• 16 years ago

I recently discovered, that I can hide Opera's tab bar and use panels 'Windows' panel instead (easy to toggle with F4).

rednum• 16 years ago

Actually, there are addons for firefox for that - tab kit (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5447/) and tree style tabs (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890/)

Personally I use tab kit. However, for some reason I find it more convenient to have tabs on right.

steve19• 16 years ago

The OS X build does not have the side/vertical tabs feature :(

I am really looking forward to switching to Chrome, but I cannot give up vertical tabs on Firefox (using TreeStyleTabs extension)

drdaeman• 16 years ago

Unfortunately, vertical tabs in Chrome are not enough. You still cannot group tabs by task, then collapse some branches - which, IMHO, is the killer feature of TreeStyleTabs.

garply• 16 years ago

Is this available on Linux? I tried the flag on my chromium-dev build, but it didn't do anything. Updating the source now... (turns out yaourt is nice).

VMG• 16 years ago

try clyde

yxhuvud• 16 years ago

About friggin time. That has been the major obstacle for me to start using chrome. Horizontal tabs just don't scale.

oliveoil• 16 years ago

hmm two things come to mind:

1) finally something that would make me switch for a 'wide-screen' lcd. 2) if you can resize the bar then all of the webdesigners' estimates about "this much should always fit the screen without scrolling" are off (if they still make them).

dchest• 16 years ago

Regarding #2: Mac users already have different sizes of browser windows due to the lack of "maximize" (e.g. fill screen) option, and it has never been a problem for web designers, AFAIK.

planckscnst• 16 years ago

Now the real killer feature would be for Chrome's extension API to allow this sort of thing, but it doesn't. Unfotunately, Chrome really limits what you can do in this regard, which is why I'm still a Firefox fan.

kmfrk• 16 years ago

I recently moved my tabs to the bottom of Opera by accident, and I highly recommend it. The tabs (if you have half as many as I do) are distracting as hell; moving them to the bottom only grants them attention when necessary.

listic• 16 years ago

I was tuning my Opera to have tabs at the bottom for quites some time since. They had tabs at the bottom by default originally, then switched them to being at the top.

I guess it was one of those changes where they chose to move along with the crowd, since their market share is minor. Other example is key combinations.

Goosey• 16 years ago

What's old is new again. Tabs at bottom reminds me of how interesting it is that the tab abstraction is successful in spite of the presence of a fully capable window manager.

Sephr2• 16 years ago

I prefer how vertical tabs look in the current stable builds: http://i.imgur.com/cjdFY.png

mitjak• 16 years ago

You use the mobile version of the site on the desktop browser too? High five!

Sephr2• 16 years ago

No, I use an extension I made (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hnadelehgiejkljb...) so that you can use the mobile site's better toolbar.

mkr-hn• 16 years ago

I had to stop using Chrome. Being fast and efficient means little if the semi-frequent safe browsing cache updates grind the system to a halt for several seconds.

They say it's "fixed," and I know it's hard to reproduce a random bug, but there's only so much I can do to help. It does the same on Linux, so I know it's not the usual causes (AVs and stuff).

heresy• 16 years ago

Can you change the width of the tab sidebar?

Seems a glaring omission if you can't, especially for widescreen monitors.

Google Chrome Labs (Featuring Tabs on the Left)

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