Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

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Post by dhenein » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 4:26 PM UTC

Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack
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Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

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Post by mordero » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 4:50 PM UTC

I'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://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidewise-tree-styl...

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

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Post by ozymandius182 » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 5:05 PM UTC

Any chance of this being published via Mozilla Add-Ons, or do you want to keep it as a prototype?

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

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Post by dhenein » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 5:09 PM UTC

ozymandius182 wrote: post #3

Any chance of this being published via Mozilla Add-Ons, or do you want to keep it as a prototype?

Right now it works (best) on OSX, I'd love to get some help to make it work better across platforms. My colleague Hayden's work will probably progress faster than mine (this was just a side project for me!) https://github.com/dhdemerson/VerticalTabs

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Post by yxhuvud » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 5:11 PM UTC

Very nice to see FF designers discovering the joy of vertical tabs, but it seems pretty strange to not have the article mention the traditional solutions to that, like Tree Style Tabs. Are the designers living in a bobble when it comes to extensions?

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

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Post by dhenein » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 5:14 PM UTC

yxhuvud wrote: post #5

Very nice to see FF designers discovering the joy of vertical tabs, but it seems pretty strange to not have the article mention the traditional solutions to that, like Tree Style Tabs. Are the designers living in a bobble when it comes to extensions?

Thanks for pointing this out, I should have made mention in my post :) I've have seen tree style tabs – which does a great job for more advanced organization of tabs. For my experiments (and Firefox features in general), we try and focus on simplicity and the more general audience.

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

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Post by callahad » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 5:24 PM UTC

If 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...

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

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Post by asakura89 » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 5:28 PM UTC

Looks ugly in windows. And show to on the right is not working. Waiting for a better version. :)

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

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Post by dhenein » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 5:30 PM UTC

asakura89 wrote: post #8

Looks ugly in windows. And show to on the right is not working. Waiting for a better version. :)

Agreed! My work was done on OSX, as a proof of concept. My colleague Hayden is doing some great work to carry it forward, including Windows support (https://github.com/dhdemerson/VerticalTabs)

Re: Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack

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Post by dubcanada » Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

I 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?