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Have you tried enabling side tabs in Chrome? Works wonders for me.

by tapoxi 15y ago

thorax 15y ago
I love Tree-Style Tabs, so had to try this out. For anyone else who had trouble tracking down modern instructions for this: * Go to about:flags * Enable Side tabs (first option) * Restart Chrome * Right-click on a tab and chose "Use side tabs" Not a treeview of collapsible tabs, but muchmuchmuch better than normal tab view in Chrome. Thanks for mentioning that they had this.
- petercooper 15y ago
  What version has this? I just tried 12, 13 and 14 (Canary) and I don't have that option. I have "Tab Overview" as the first thing in flags. Is this a Windows only thing, perhaps?
  - mason55 15y ago
    Is this a Windows only thing, perhaps? I believe so, I've been using sidetabs since they were released in Canary one year+ ago and I've never figured out how to get it to work on my Mac
  - cbr 15y ago
    In osx I had to do: cd /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS mv "Google Chrome" "Google Chrome Binary" echo '#!/bin/bash exec "${0%/*}/Google Chrome Binary" -enable-vertical-tabs "$@"' > "Google Chrome" chmod ugo+x "Google Chrome" This let me start chrome with the "-enable-vertical-tabs" command line switch. Once it was started I needed to right click a tab and choose "Use Side Tabs".
    - jannes 15y ago
      Wouldn't this break after an update?
    - andfarm 15y ago
      Probably worth noting that the vertical tab UI you end up with looks pretty weird (on Mac OS, at least), as it's literally just moving the existing tabs over to the side without changing the graphics at all.
    - olifante 15y ago
      to try it out without making it permanent, just open a Terminal window and enter something like this: /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome -enable-vertical-tabs
- _harry 15y ago
  While on the subject of about:flags -- Enable 'Tab Overview' if you have a Mac with a trackpad. Three finger swipe down shows all of your tabs like expose.
  - te_chris 15y ago
    This is my favourite chrome feature! It's so useful that it's convinced me to buy a magic trackpad so I can use this when I'm using the laptop with an external keyboard.
    - intranation 15y ago
      Ctrl + Cmd + t
      - te_chris 15y ago
        Thank you!!! I know you're not mean't to put posts like this on HN, but I've been searching for a shortcut like that for a long time! :)
hugh4life 15y ago
I last heard about it a while ago... just tried it... nowhere near as good as TreeStyleTabs... Chrome also just doesn't work well for me for the amount of windows I usually have open at a time. 70+ at least.
yqiang 15y ago
Are you on windows or osx? Would love to know how to get side tabs working on OSX.

Have you tried enabling side tabs in Chrome? Works wonders for me.

by tapoxi 15y ago

Have you tried enabling side tabs in Chrome? Works wonders for me.

I love Tree-Style Tabs, so had to try this out. For anyone else who had trouble tracking down modern instructions for this: * Go to about:flags * Enable Side tabs (first option) * Restart Chrome * Right-click on a tab and chose "Use side tabs" Not a treeview of collapsible tabs, but muchmuchmuch better than normal tab view in Chrome. Thanks for mentioning that they had this.

petercooper 15y ago
What version has this? I just tried 12, 13 and 14 (Canary) and I don't have that option. I have "Tab Overview" as the first thing in flags. Is this a Windows only thing, perhaps?
- mason55 15y ago
  Is this a Windows only thing, perhaps? I believe so, I've been using sidetabs since they were released in Canary one year+ ago and I've never figured out how to get it to work on my Mac
- cbr 15y ago
  In osx I had to do: cd /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS mv "Google Chrome" "Google Chrome Binary" echo '#!/bin/bash exec "${0%/*}/Google Chrome Binary" -enable-vertical-tabs "$@"' > "Google Chrome" chmod ugo+x "Google Chrome" This let me start chrome with the "-enable-vertical-tabs" command line switch. Once it was started I needed to right click a tab and choose "Use Side Tabs".
  - jannes 15y ago
    Wouldn't this break after an update?
  - andfarm 15y ago
    Probably worth noting that the vertical tab UI you end up with looks pretty weird (on Mac OS, at least), as it's literally just moving the existing tabs over to the side without changing the graphics at all.
  - olifante 15y ago
    to try it out without making it permanent, just open a Terminal window and enter something like this: /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome -enable-vertical-tabs
_harry 15y ago
While on the subject of about:flags -- Enable 'Tab Overview' if you have a Mac with a trackpad. Three finger swipe down shows all of your tabs like expose.
- te_chris 15y ago
  This is my favourite chrome feature! It's so useful that it's convinced me to buy a magic trackpad so I can use this when I'm using the laptop with an external keyboard.
  - intranation 15y ago
    Ctrl + Cmd + t
    - te_chris 15y ago
      Thank you!!! I know you're not mean't to put posts like this on HN, but I've been searching for a shortcut like that for a long time! :)

hugh4life 15y ago

I last heard about it a while ago... just tried it... nowhere near as good as TreeStyleTabs... Chrome also just doesn't work well for me for the amount of windows I usually have open at a time. 70+ at least.

yqiang 15y ago

Are you on windows or osx? Would love to know how to get side tabs working on OSX.