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Brave Browser Now Features Vertical Tabs For Desktop Users (brave.com) 36

Posted by msmash from the killing-old-habits dept.
Speaking of Brave, the browser-maker is introducing vertical tabs. From a blog post: With today's 1.52 desktop release, the vertical tabs setting is available to Brave users on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Enabling the vertical tabs setting relocates your open tabs from the top of your browser window (i.e. above the address bar) to the left side of the window, where they'll appear stacked vertically rather than horizontally. To do so, right-click an existing horizontal tab and select "use vertical tabs" from the menu. With open tabs arranged vertically, you'll be able to scroll through them as needed. To open a new tab, simply click the button to create a new tab at the bottom of the vertical tabs sidebar.
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  • advertising (Score:4, Insightful)

    by awwshit ( 6214476 ) on Thursday June 01, 2023 @04:24PM (#63568559)

    You must be Brave if you are using a browser from an advertising company.

    • Re: advertising (Score:4, Informative)

      by WeAreNotStupid321 ( 9325199 ) on Thursday June 01, 2023 @06:25PM (#63568895)
      Actually, the whole point of Brave browser is to take all of Chrome's functionality, and get rid of all of the tracking and ads. It's super fast, super stable, and like a completely different internet. You're not bombarded with ads. You're not tracked. You actually have control. I'm shocked when I go to websites, including subscription news websites, on a different browser. The endless bombardment with ads is awful. Plus all the video and other unwanted content. Brave is awesome.

    • You must be Brave if you are using a browser from an advertising company.

      You mean Google's Chrome? Yeah, absolutely.

  • If you have a widescreen monitor, it makes sense to me. If you have a 4:3 or 1:1 monitor, I'd not want to sacrifice that screen real estate. However, since widescreen monitors are, well, WIDE they have more space in the horizontal dimension for said tab-group. On a more square monitor or say if you have one of those tilt monitors to put your 16:9 to 9:16 portrait mode, one would probably one traditional tabs. I do this with WindowMaker and friends. If I'm using my 16x9 monitors the dock goes on the side. If
    • Hmm..first I've heard of vertical tabs.

      Seems strange to me...

      Does anyone out there actually use these?

      • I do use them in Fluxbox. In some cases they are functional/operational and not just gimmicks, but mostly I do it to compliment some spacey themes. I also remember that MOTIF had some GUI extension kits (name escapes me now) back in the 1990's that would allow applications with vertical tabbing. This was back before browsers had any tabs at all and folks were still cranking along with Netscape. Some of those GUI extensions for MOTIF were pretty powerful. I remember some cool Man-machine-interface style gaug

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        I use vertical tabs all the time. Nobody supported such a thing back in the day (okay, maybe Opera did, but who uses that?), so I had to write myself a vertical tabs browser [github.com] using Qt (which sucked, but eh, whatever it was good enough).

        Vertical tabs just makes way more sense to me. Scrolling through tabs with a scroll wheel mouse makes more sense when tabs are arranged vertically. Wide screen monitors have plenty of screen space on either side, but adding junk to the top or bottom of a window in a wide scree

      • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

        by labnet ( 457441 )

        Hmm..first I've heard of vertical tabs.

        Seems strange to me...

        Does anyone out there actually use these?

        Really?
        I've use Tree Style Tabs plugin for Firefox for at least 10 years.
        As soon as screens went hollywood 16:9, it was time to make use of all that width!
        I usually have 50-60 tabs open at a time (Data sheets when designing circuits).

        • Yep, vertical tabs are the only way to go. Tree Style Tab has been the killer app that's kept me tied to Firefox for so long(*). Not *just* for the vertical arrangement, but also the hierarchy. Opening new tabs as children of the parent tab automatically keeps groups of related tabs together.

          (*) I've seen vertical tab add-ons for Chrome, but they tend to put the tabs in a separate window, not just a pane or sidebar within the current window. That probably works great with some window managers, but not o

      • While this isn't quite what you asked about, I use this excellent vertical tab manager (Chrome plugin) called Tabs Outliner [google.com]

        Vertical menus and tabs make sense when you have a wide landscape monitor to reclaim vertical space.

      • Hmm..first I've heard of vertical tabs.

        Seems strange to me...

        Does anyone out there actually use these?

        I know this is an edge case, (not an "Edge" case), and that I'm crazy, so I'm ready to take some flaming here. Right now I have 1176 tabs open in Firefox.

        As soon as I read TFS I started looking for and found some "vertical tabs" extensions for Firefox, and I'm going to create a new browser profile and check them out. So yes, I'd say some people use vertical tabs, and I may join them soon.

      • I used to use them in Opera about 20 years ago when it was an option. Not only does it make better use of wide screens, it also gives the tabs enough space to read the title when you have a bunch open.

        I used to do the same with the Windows taskbar about 20 years ago when I still used Windows. I think icon stacks (multiple related windows under a single icon) are probably a better solution nowadays though.

      • Does anyone out there actually use these?

        I've used them and nothing else since Galeon offered them, I think about 20 years ago.

    • Yep, I've consistently keep my taskbar/dock/whatever today's OS calls it on the left side of the screen for exactly that reason since around Windows 98. Even on a 4:3 monitor that vertical space is more valuable than horizontal. Though in that case I do tend to keep the bar too narrow to really read the titles - but then I also tend to have so many windows open that the buttons on a horizontal taskbar are shrunk to little more than icons, and having a horizontal taskbar 2-3 rows high is just WAY too much

      • That "bookshelf mode" sounds cool. I'm going to see if I can check it out. I've seen something like that in the OS/2 and Aracaos GUI toolkit. Not only are the tabs hanging off the side but the glphys/letters were properly oriented and scaled vertically. Cool!

  • Wow (Score:5, Interesting)

    by mobby_6kl ( 668092 ) on Thursday June 01, 2023 @04:41PM (#63568597)

    What is this, Opera circa 2003?!

  • I just turn my monitor on end.

  • For the fucking morons who love keeping more than a handful of tabs open.
    Then complain why everything is so slow.

  • There's virtually no difference between 'vertical tabs' and "bookmarks sidebar" now, is there.

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