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lxieyang / vertical-tabs-chrome-extension

A chrome extension that presents your tabs vertically. Problem solved.
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You are a god!! #64

Open salessalesalliance opened 3 years ago

salessalesalliance commented 3 years ago

I was clinging to Firefox like a starving man - only because of tree tabs which I can't live without - and then YOU SAVED THE DAY!!!!!

You are my hero.

People don't fully UNDERSTAND the value of working vertically, and I didn't either until Tab Trees made it easy.

Some input?

  1. Tab Tree never figured out a way the user could rename the label of the bookmark. It looks like Vertical Tabs can't either? Yet?
  2. Maybe more outline structure like "tab outliner" and "tab tree" where we can stack and store them is coming?
  3. Folders or containers?

THank you so much - I hope this is a first step - I would be more than happy to pay for this!

Anthony Florio

kekukui commented 3 years ago

The creator of Vertical Tabs is attempting to implement a layout mode & behavior through an extension which should be part of the browser's core functionality:

Vertical tabs should be a native feature of Chrome because there is no other practical way to display complete page titles on Chrome while working in the same window. The absence of this feature is a mystery indeed -- it just makes no sense for a browser to conceal page titles from the user.

It is a sad commentary on the depraved state of software engineering when common-sense user interface design principles are regarded by the public as super-human and god-like: ease of use and intuitive functionality should be expected, not surprising. (Especially from a company like Google with virtually unlimited resources.) So I would really like to hear the managers of the Chromium project explain these deficiencies:

What is their excuse for not integrating Vertical Tabs and Auto Tab Discard functionality directly into the core application? Can we convince them to correct this mistake? Are there any pull requests for this which have been rejected? If yes, then why? If the Chromium team will not implement vertical tabs in the browser, can we deploy this feature through Brave?

There is no other browser issue which affects a greater number of users, so why is this being ignored year after year? It seems like some kind of mass hypnosis or collective insanity, that we must tolerate a difficult user interface in Chrome when there is no technical reason for the problem to exist -- it is simply a case of bad design. The Vertical Tabs extension is an acceptable patch for a broken system, but in the future a desktop browser without support for vertical tabs will be regarded by the public as useless -- just like the first generation web browsers (which had no integrated support for tabs.)

MelvinTo commented 3 years ago

+1

BTW: Microsoft Edge has the Vertical Tabs built-in already. https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22313433/microsoft-edge-vertical-tabs-startup-boost-features

kekukui commented 3 years ago

Very interesting... 'The Verge' seems to have good coverage of web browser development but the browser news articles are not grouped together - they are all filed under separate company names where I would never see them. I also noticed that Microsoft has implemented Auto Tab Discard:

Edge will now automatically release system resources for inactive tabs https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/21/22242622/microsoft-edge-new-themes-icons-sleeping-tabs-feature

We can only pray that this kind of competition will convince Google to implement the same features.