OmniWeb did this over a decade ago: http://i.imgur.com/U4Q5siY.jpg
I'm glad it's getting more popular but surprised it's taken this long. It makes more sense to use horizontal space on a widescreen monitor.
Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack
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#22This causes the address bar to climb up and disappear halfway on my OS X Nightly. :(
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#23If you want to try this out, download release.xpi from the repo and drag it into Firefox. Link: https://github.com/darrinhenein/VerticalTabs/raw/master/rele...
Is there a reason this isn't on the firefox addons site? I think it's bad practice to recommend people run arbitrary code from the internet when there's a simple alternative.
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#24I wish this existed for Chrome, they used to have a command line flag (–enable-vertical-tabs) but they turned it off. Which made me really sad. Does anyone know of a nice looking version of this for Chrome?
Chrome doesn't really allow you to modify the interface enough to do this, but there's an extension called Tab Outliner, that works similarly, and has some extra features as well.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...
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#25I've been using Tree Style Tabs[0] with Firefox for a long time. Being able to nest tabs and then collapse them is awesome. It is hard to live without it when using Chrome (I know there is a similar addon for Chrome[1], but it doesn't have the same feel since it just adds a new window off to the side and still has the tabs across the top). [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... [1] https:…
I love it too. Drag-n-drop and collapsing them makes managing tabs so much easier. Its hard to navigate tabs in a browser without it!
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#26More generally, but in the same vein, I miss the side panel from Opera -- it's both easy and satisfying to 'throw' the mouse into the side of the screen to get access to extra control real estate.
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#27If you want to try this out, download release.xpi from the repo and drag it into Firefox. Link: https://github.com/darrinhenein/VerticalTabs/raw/master/rele...
Is there a reason this isn't on the firefox addons site? I think it's bad practice to recommend people run arbitrary code from the internet when there's a simple alternative.
OP isn't the primary addon developer and doesn't want to steal eyes/users from his friend?
There are lots of addons that are, at least in part, distributed as blobs from github
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#28I like the idea of the windows task bar on the left side, but instead of showing thumbnails if it showed document titles we could just use that instead of side-tabs. Start a new browser window instead of a tab and let the desktop environment handle that. Of course there's persistence issues, but those could be resolved. I guess I don't like duplicating functionality between application and the desktop, and all the apps getting tabs is just that. Perhaps the desktop implementation needs to be better rather than having apps do it themselves?
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#29If you want to try this out, download release.xpi from the repo and drag it into Firefox. Link: https://github.com/darrinhenein/VerticalTabs/raw/master/rele...
Is there a reason this isn't on the firefox addons site? I think it's bad practice to recommend people run arbitrary code from the internet when there's a simple alternative.
TIL: putting code on the firefox addons site makes it secure by pure magic.
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#30I've been using Tree Style Tabs[0] with Firefox for a long time. Being able to nest tabs and then collapse them is awesome. It is hard to live without it when using Chrome (I know there is a similar addon for Chrome[1], but it doesn't have the same feel since it just adds a new window off to the side and still has the tabs across the top). [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... [1] https:…
+1 for Tree Style Tabs. This seems in the right direction, but it's not nearly as feature packed as TST. One thing with TST though, pinned tabs is broken :(