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Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

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Post by 1MachineElf »

chrisco255 wrote: post #9
meghan_rain wrote: post #3

aka bookmarks

who needs bookmarks when you can have 750 tabs open at once?

The latter is more valuable to the ad tech industry. In fact, they benefit from browsers with crippled bookmarking systems. Every time a user types in "facebook" instead of facebook.com into the omnibar, that user is directed to a Google/Bing/Brave Search page with ads.

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

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Post by CoBE10 »

I've been using Firefox with Tab Center Reborn, and a config which collapses the tabs so only the favicons are visible. Using Shift-Tab, Ctrl-Shift-Tab and Ctrl-T, Ctrl-W to go around and open/close is so logical for me. First time I heard about Tree style tabs I was so against them because they occupied significant amount of space and I didn't know you could collapse them. I don't see myself ever going back horizontal tabs. Vertical is so much better, especially on smaller screen (like 1366x768), where horizontal space isn't needed that much as vertical is.

My setup: https://i.imgur.com/sZ8zdol.png

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Post by miohtama »

CoBE10 wrote: post #23

I've been using Firefox with Tab Center Reborn, and a config which collapses the tabs so only the favicons are visible. Using Shift-Tab, Ctrl-Shift-Tab and Ctrl-T, Ctrl-W to go around and open/close is so logical for me. First time I heard about Tree style tabs I was so against them because they occupied significant amount of space and I didn't know you could collapse them. I don't see myself ever going back horizont…

Tree Style Tabs work well, because screen estate is not wasted on 16:9 and 16:10 style displays. Web browsing is mostly reading task and because of usability, line length cannot exceed a certain width. Thus, there is more screen estate horizontally around the page than vertically on top and bottom of the page you are reading.

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

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Post by miohtama »

james_pm wrote: post #18

Everyone is copying Arc. Microsoft showed a similar design to what Arc has along with vertical tabs.

Tree Style Tabs were released for Firefox around 2007

https://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_treestyletab.html.en#history

I am not sure if someone like Opera was earlier, but Arc is likely copying this.

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

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Post by fayten »

james_pm wrote: post #18

Everyone is copying Arc. Microsoft showed a similar design to what Arc has along with vertical tabs.

I don't really think anyone is copying anyone here. This is a popular feature for browsers that has been around for over a decade.

Orion[1] is another recent MacOS browser that released before Arc in 2021 and has vertical tabs. Edge had vertical tabs as an experiment back in 2020[2] and is full feature now. Vivaldi has had vertical tabs since 2015[3]. It might not count since it's not built in, but Firefox has had vertical tab extensions since 2007[4].

[1]https://browser.kagi.com/

[2] https://www.howtogeek.com/697986/how-to-enable-and-use-verti...

[3]https://www.maketecheasier.com/vertical-tabs-browsers/

[4]https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/graphs/contributors

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

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Post by game_the0ry »

I really liked brave and this is an interesting feature, but I had to stop using it when I tried syncing my bookmarks - for some reason, a bunch ended up duplicating, and I have a lot of bookmarks that are well organized.

Otherwise, I would have kept using it - it was fast and energy efficient on my intel macbook, way better than chrome.

I also have to say - I hate when I have so many tabs open. It's basically a manifestation of my ADHD. I need to focus one thing at a time.

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

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Post by amelius »

biggestfan wrote: post #2

It's strange to me how a key selling point of these vertical tabs is "save on vertical space", but they almost always still include a header bar. You can see in the video they posted that it saves almost no vertical space, while now taking up a massive amount of horizontal space.

Perhaps we should just make monitors in 4:3 like we used to instead of 16:9 which is ridiculous since we typically don't watch movies in the office.

Re: Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

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Post by Lammy »

miohtama wrote: post #26
james_pm wrote: post #18

Everyone is copying Arc. Microsoft showed a similar design to what Arc has along with vertical tabs.

Tree Style Tabs were released for Firefox around 2007 https://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_treestyletab.html.en#history I am not sure if someone like Opera was earlier, but Arc is likely copying this.

> I am not sure if someone like Opera was earlier

OmniWeb 5.0, 2004: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2004/02/ow5/3/#tabs

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