Firefox invented vertical tabs but then forgot about them. Always having to search for the next short lived plugin made me switch to Edge. I'd be delighted if this would change
I'll switch to Firefox when they get proper vertical tabs like Edge's. I know Microsoft Edge has a really bad reputation, but damn it I can't live without its vertical tabs, and I can disable most of the idiotic AI crap. I know there are plugins, but they all feel quite hacky and are simply not as good.
I recently switched to vertical tabs in FF (Sidebery) and it is an incredibly better approach. Why the hell is this not built in to the browser??? It is lame that Mozilla isn't baking this kind of core functionality in. On top of that, they make it a PITA to kill the stupid horizontal tabs.
Supposedly Edge has a vertical tabs option. Chrome doesn't seem to even have a plug in for it.
Vertical tabs are native in Edge? In any case, it has existed in Firefox for a long time before Edge even existed. But I guess you particularly like Edge's implementation. It does sound funny though that someone would prefer Edge because they browse a lot. Usually people use Edge because it's the default browser in Windows and they don't know any better.
Using Firefox since the beginning, with year long deviations to Chrome and Opera, I'm a hostage now. Firefox is slow, memory consuming to the point I hate to use it. But it has addons for good vertical tree tabs and the Chrome plugins are all way inferior. And I just can't go back to horizontal tabs.
Vertical tabs used to work so well on Firefox that I held on for just that, even when everybody had already left for Chrome. Then they killed it. Now you're saying they dropped it because they couldn't get it to work again. Kind of sad.
Wow, and here I thought I was the only one to make this move from Firefox to Edge, precisely because of the excellent native vertical tabs functionality.
It's not perfect, but the level of UX polish and the first-class integration with other browser features is unmatched by any Firefox vertical tabs extension I've tried.
I still can't believe the other browsers haven't caught on to the fact that power users want vertical tabs and are willing to switch browsers for it after so many years of Firefox extensions showing the way...
I am using edge as I like the vertical tabs… the only browser that has this feature, kind of, is Safari; but safari extensions suck (if you tried to ever build one, you would understand why).
It’s otherwise very user hostile but just I love the vertical tabs so much
I have to use Edge at work. If those vertical tabs are coming, I'd certainly welcome it. I wish I could get vertical tabs that are actually drawn like a tree though: Like with the box drawing characters and indentation.
The best feature in Firefox is container tabs - and there are a ton of uses outside of first party isolation. Chrome-based browsers need that.
I have no choice but to use Firefox because I have switched to vertical tabs (with Sidebery) and it seems that every other browser besides Edge(?!) is stuck with horizontal tabs.
Horizontal tabs are objectively inferior - why are vertical tabs so rare???
Vertical tabs was one feature of firefox that kept me using it almost indefinitely. Firefox would do all sorts of goofy things like freeze up entirely while playing Netflix or Hulu. I got to this point where I would use Chrome for doing anything media related like that and Firefox for "everything else". I found myself enjoying Chrome more and more, but the lack of vertical tabs kept me in Firefox.
Eventually though, I had enough of Firefox's shenanigans and now I just suffer through horizontal tabs. Now my usage pattern has changed and I'm constantly having to weed out tabs so I can figure out where I am.
I think tree-style tabs can be quite useful to those that care to utilize them, but I think the vertical nature is the much better selling point for most people, since its advantages are very easy to grok. I would like to see better integration of addons like it into firefox so it doesn't feel so hacky, though. It would also be nice to be able to toggle between horizontal tabs and vertical ones like in Edge, rather than having to edit css files to get rid of them like you have to in Firefox.
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