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The simplest implementation in Firefox is an extension called, appropriately enough, Vertical Tabs. (If anyone knows otherwise, let me know.) There's no API for programmers to change it. I've even appealed to Chrome developers directly and been told that they're not going to do it because heavy tab users are a tiny fraction of their user base. In Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer, horizontal tabs are hard-coded. Here's the problem: vertical tabs are available only in Firefox.

The titles of all the tabs are clearly visible, and there's more vertical space in the main window to see #content. Here's how my browser, Mozilla Firefox, looks with the same 20 tabs open: You can fit far more tabs on the tab bar, you can read their titles clearly even when there's a lot of them, and you have more vertical space in the main browser window for reading. Vertical space is at a premium, while there are wide areas off to the side of your browser that go unused. I'm talking about vertical tabs.Īlmost all computer monitors these days are widescreen. One browser modification is critical for me. It usually involves an extra movement or click, which, when you do it dozens of times a day, adds up.īrowsers, as they come "out of the box," are not designed with heavy tab users in mind. It's difficult to locate anything in that logjam, at least with a quick visual scan. Most people never get near that level of crazy, but you don't have to have many tabs open before you start running into trouble: the browser starts eating up memory, everything slows down, tabs get so scrunched together you can't see them. In my case, it's become something of a pathology. If you're a semi-professional web browser, you probably make heavy use of tabs.

I spend something like 75 percent of my waking hours looking at a web browsers - for work, entertainment, shopping, planning - and over the years I've spent countless hours fiddling with them. Whichever web browser happened to be installed on their computer when they got it is "the internet." They don't mess with the settings or customize it - at most, they bookmark a few pages.įor a small minority, however, browsers are everything.

Most people aren't even aware they are using one. Most people do not care much about web browsers.