Vertical tabs made a lot of headlines when they hit nightly months ago and they were a bit jank, never quite feeling like they’re part of the browser. After updating to 133.0 though, turning on the sidebar revamp (sidebar.revamp) and vertical tabs (sidebar.verticalTabs) in about:config now work so well!
There’s no blank space hovering between the address bar and top of the window, tab previews work well on hover. Finally I can ditch Sidebery and it’s pulled me back over from flirting with Zen and I’m using this setup full time now <3
Can the sidebar be wide, and actually show the name of the site rather than just an icon?
Yes, but it’s at a fixed width at this point (at least for me).
Nice, thanks. May give it a shot then :)
It’s really hardly any effort! I just tried it and went back for now for another reason (will try again when it hits FIrefox Labs), took me no time at all.
Yes, there’s a button to expand it and show the tab labels. In the screenshot, it’s the button to the right of the refresh button.
Used Zen browser a lot recently, which is a Firefox Fork with a bit more attention to side-barring tabs, I like it.
It is nice! A couple of things kept me from committing to it though – mainly the lack of 1Password integration on Windows (I think this is 1Pasword’s fault, not the Zen dev’s), the ugly app icon (which is changing at some point in the future), but more than anything else it’s just changing and experimenting with new features at the minute, with new updates posted almost every day and features shifting while you’re using them. Which is fair enough for developing software, I’ll just come back to it down the line.
Not gonna lie, getting rid of the window/title bar that was forced in 132 looks good.
It added two extensions to the sidebar. No idea why they were added. And I can’t see a way to remove them or add more.
By extensions to you mean the tabs from other devices and history icons?
Otherwise that’s really strange behaviour, which extensions are they? Maybe it’s some other userchrome.css modifications you’ve made?
Nope. It decided to place “Simple Tab Groups” and “Video DownloadHelper” onto the tabs bar, on its own. Apparently in the tab bar settings, there’s a place to specify it, but it doesn’t appear to be active.
A piefed screenshot in the wild. Have an upvote from me. Also, thanks for the info.
I think the config setting is called something like “revamped sidebar”.
Finally I don’t have to use extensions to put it on the side.
