[ramraj07]

Vertical tabs take a much larger fraction of your screen than horizontal tabs. The entire original USP of Chrome was that the “Chrome” part of the browser window took the absolute bare minimum space in the screen letting you focus on the content. I think people still psychologically expect that to be true.

I wanted to love vertical tabs but I just keep going back. If you have multiple browsers open side by side it gets annoying how much screen the tabs take up.

[dmm]

> Vertical tabs take a much larger fraction of your screen than horizontal tabs.

Sidebery can be toggled with ctrl-e. I just enable when I need it. I also the horizontal tab bar with custom css, saving the space.

[somishere]

I use a slightly customised version of tree style tabs to great effect. Actually uses the horizontal bar to show pinned / recent tabs (which time out and hide) and an overlaid / toggle-hidden sidebar for the full list of group-organised tabs.

https://gist.github.com/theprojectsomething/6813b2c27611be03...

[Arcuru]

You can always just toggle the vertical tab view per window, so you don't lose any horizontal screen real estate unless you need them. And at least in Firefox you can remove the existing horizontal tabs using userChrome[1].

[1]: https://www.pcworld.com/article/823939/vertical-tabs-in-fire...

[wintermutestwin]

>If you have multiple browsers open side by side

Interesting. I have never had a need to not have the browser take the full width (at least on my 16" MBP. What's the use case / workflow?

[throwanem]

Docs in a browser window, next to an editor window, while working with a library that isn't very familiar. Granted, this works better on a display of meaningful size, but I do it a lot and vertical tabs would waste noticeable space.

On the other hand, I have good tab discipline in general, so vertical tabs would waste even more space by virtue of dedicating a lot of real estate for displaying next to nothing. But who needs all those tabs anyway?

[wintermutestwin]

>But who needs all those tabs anyway?

While doing research, each search yields numerous links that I need to evaluate so I'll open them all in tabs and then I go through them as a task list to whittle down.

I have a whole window for just email + comms. I have several different businesses that all use separate email, etc in containers.

I also have several interests where each gets its own window and has up to 24 pinned tabs of key sites for that topic. These are not business, so I don't have time pressure to whittle down the tabs that I open.

I currently have 368 tabs open and they are all easy to access: Select a window by topic (I use the Titler extension to name windows) and I have 3 rows of 8 tabs pinned at the top and up to 37 tabs with 40 characters of tab name space. So in each window, I can see 61 tabs without scrolling.

Why would I ever want "tab discipline?"

[bonif]

The use case is using a proper monitor, bigger than 16". Try that on a 27" or 32"

[ramraj07]

It’s just jarring this entire thread:

“ I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t use vertical threads”

“ doesn’t work on small screens”

“Get a bigger screen”

Consider that most people don’t care to even if they have the money. I sure don’t care for a bigger screen. I find myself more productive in a small screen anyway.