I have a 1920x1200 monitor and find that a lot of my web browsing wastes a lot of my horizontal space. Tabbed browsing certainly beats single-window browsing for content aggregation sites like HN, but it's still kind of cumbersome... and there's all that horizontal space not being used. So I wrote clikkit - it creates an iframe and starts loading the page as soon as you click the link (unfortunately, it's up to Chrome how much priority it gives to fetching the page, and it doesn't start rendering it until the iframe is added to the DOM).
I have this option with Chrome 13.0.782.109 beta-m. If you right click a tab, the context menu option is "Use Side Tabs". I just can't remember what I did to get that option to appear in the context menu. I thought I used "about:labs", but that is no longer showing anything. Maybe the feature is baked into this build?
I have a 1920x1200 monitor and find that a lot of my web browsing wastes a lot of my horizontal space. Tabbed browsing certainly beats single-window browsing for content aggregation sites like HN, but it's still kind of cumbersome... and there's all that horizontal space not being used. So I wrote clikkit - it creates an iframe and starts loading the page as soon as you click the link (unfortunately, it's up to Chrome how much priority it gives to fetching the page, and it doesn't start rendering it until the iframe is added to the DOM).