Waiting for Vertical tabs in Firefox? Official Nightly builds now offer this feature, allowing you to enable and even move it to right side.

The most requested Vertical Tabs will make an appearance in the upcoming Firefox. The feature can now be turned on in Nightly itself without the need to rely on third-party extensions or separate Nightly builds.

  • Perhyte@lemmy.world
    19·
    5 months ago

    Is this just placing them vertically, nothing else?

    I currently use the Tree Style Tab extension and really like how it handles sub-tabs and allows collapsing the tree nodes. If I can’t have that this is probably not directly useful to me unless extensions can add that functionality.

    I guess I’ll be watching how this evolves though.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
      9·
      5 months ago

      This is exactly what was expected.

      After all, it’s called Vertical Tabs, not Nested Tree Tabs.

      unless extensions can add that functionality

      I guess that’s the idea. Most sidebar extensions need reworking with the new sidebar, but now addons wanting to add functionality to the tab strip no longer have to first also “invent” the whole vertical tab strip. They can just start from the existing one.

    • gramathy@lemmy.ml
      4·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, I use TST with some CSS modifications to nearly eliminate the top bar and I like it a lot

    • something_random_tho@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 months ago

      I’m in a similar boat. I use Sidebery which has groups of tabs (in addition to nesting them). Would really want something similar built in natively to organize all of them.

    • msdropbear42@loma.ml
      3·
      5 months ago

      @[email protected] @[email protected] Agree, but fwiw, IMO, #Sidebery is even more powerful & flexible than #TreeStyleTab AO. After being spoiled by both these for years, #Nightly has heaps of catching up to do before the native solution will become my choice… but i emphatically DO want sophisticated #VerticalTabs to be native, so hope the Devs learn from & adopt from these two AOs.

      • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
        8·
        5 months ago

        I honestly hope they do not. The base implementation should be something utterly basic - I mean, quite literally the horizontal tab strip, but vertical. And then present an API for extending them, allowing consumers to bolt their own functionality on top as needed for their specific use case.

        Don’t stuff the browser full of stuff only a tiny minority uses, tbh.

  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
    5·
    5 months ago

    And just like the fucking floating tabs they have excessively fat padding / gaps. And if you have this replacing the tabs at the top, then you might as well move the window buttons down one row and remove the top bar entirely.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 months ago

      And if you have this replacing the tabs at the top, then you might as well move the window buttons down one row and remove the top bar entirely

      Yeah that part is weird. But it’s early in development and this sounds like something you add late, tbh.

      Still, it’s kinda … well … the point. Use the readily available horizontal space with a vertical tab strip to free up the precious vertical space by removing that entire bar. 😅

    • rdri@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      I have the top bar removed (using some css hacks) for like a year and it’s mostly fine. Using sidebery for vertical tabs.

      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        5 months ago

        A tight grid beats getting lost in barely two dozen tabs at a time, scrolling horizontally and having no idea where it begins or ends. You’d need a thousand tabs in one window to take up even 500px vertically.

        • thefartographer@lemm.ee
          4·
          5 months ago

          Gimme big tabs that look like buttons on a child’s ipad app. I also want the tab matrix enabled and always visible on mobile. Finally, they must make various squeaking/honking/chirping noises when I select them and animal noises when left inactive for too long.

  • taanegl@beehaw.org
    5·
    5 months ago

    Been using some extensions to get this done.

    Currently using Sidebar Tabs. I have gotten used to grouped tabs, which is something I don’t want to give up. I’ve mapped Ctrl+Space to open and close it, which is super satisfying.

    I switched from Sideberry, which was cool since it is so configurable, and that it can store and recall entire lists of links. I think this is a nice alternative to bookmarks, because it gives you a sort of link manifest, that you can even export.

    Mozilla’s attempt seems… lackluster in comparison, but it’s still under development. So eh. Thinking of going Librefox, Waterfox or even Floorp - though that would be like going ESR.

  • Nemeski@lemm.ee
    3·
    5 months ago

    I can see the revamped sidebar but it doesn’t show the tabs in the sidebar for me.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    5 months ago

    yess, i’ve been waiting for this (love sidebury but would love to see something built in).

    really hope there will be an option to change the width and add the tab title/favicon, since i prefer the edge vertical tabs. i’m sure that’s coming through.