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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.world

I know this is old news by now, but I was not sure how to activate vertical tabs on all of my browsers. It certainly is not obvious, so I wanted to include the instructions here in case anyone else wants to try it out.

Type about:config into the address bar of Firefox. You'll be greeted with a warning that you are accessing advanced settings - click "Accept the Risk and Continue." Search for the boolean preference sidebar.verticalTabs and set to true. That's it! Enjoy your vertical Tabs!

Edit: You may also need to set sidebar.revamp to true if it is not already/automatically set.

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[-] stickyShift@midwest.social 28 points 1 month ago

I like it better than the horizontal tabs, but it's still got nothing on the Tree Style Tabs extension. With that you can group tabs together, collapse trees, close trees, etc. Makes it much easier to keep things organized

[-] digital_man@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

Wow, I had no idea this was already built in! Thank you!

I wonder why this feature is "Obscured" like this, maybe it's still in beta?

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Yeah, pretty sure, it hasn't been officially announced yet, because it is still under development.

[-] Twitches@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

Nice, wheres my tab groups?

[-] TheEntity@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There is still no built-in solution for nested/tree-like groups, but for creating simple groups Ctrl+N has served me for many years.

[-] Twitches@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Ctrl n is just new tab isn't it? Honesty in the browser tab grouping isn't as critical to me. On my phone where I open too many tabs it would be nice to group them so my random ADHD lookups are grouped together.

[-] TheEntity@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

New window, not a new tab, which is essentially a tab group. Not an option on a mobile though, you're right.

[-] Twitches@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, Ctrl t is new tab. New window idea is a good work around.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

You damn degenerate vertical tab lovers

[-] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

There's an additional option I have set to true, and not sure what else it provides, but it's: sidebar.revamp

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks! I added it to the post.

[-] poplargrove@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

For anyone interested, Firefox-based browser Floorp (terrible name) has had tab groups and vertical tabs for a while now.

I've been using it for a while now and it's nice and stable.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm fancy of the 'Zen' fork. However I just can't get myself to switch off of Firefox for some reason. Idk why, it just works™️ for me

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I did use it for a while, but it lags in updates and is missing a feature or two that I needed.

Overall it's great and underrated (or under-represented).

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I personally prefer Sidebery, but glad they're finally putting this feature in as a standard feature

[-] TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Nice! I’ve been running the nightly for this, looking forward to switching back to regular Firefox.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Also available on LibreWolf with a toggle at about:config.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Helpful to know! I assume it's the same or similar?

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

It’s a fork of Firefox that enhances privacy/security.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They really should have a browser that can have side by side sites so I don't have to keep doing that in the OS. Maybe I should just invent one. I don't know about anyone else but almost all of my workflows at this point are one side reference material and the other side what I'm working on.

[-] ted@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Zen browser, a Firefox fork trying to imitate Arc (chromium).

[-] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Opera can do this, but it's chromium

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

There's the Side View extension, perhaps?

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

I can but strangely enough not using them is apparently something I can't do, as FF refuses to hide the vertical bar.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Check the link. It includes instructions for disabling it.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago
[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately they cannot yet be resized on the fly, as instead some vertical-tab extensions allow you to do. But it's a step in the right direction!

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Useless without tree and bookmarking/opening as tree.

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 1 month ago

Tab groups are coming soon.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago
[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 1 month ago

If you open a new tab from a group, it opens in the same group.

It works is a tree, besides being one-level only.

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 1 points 1 month ago
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