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> It's strange to me how a key selling point of these vertical tabs is "save on vertical space", but they almost always still include a header bar. Honestly, t
by tivert 3y ago
> It's strange to me how a key selling point of these vertical tabs is "save on vertical space", but they almost always still include a header bar.
Honestly, that's not the main selling point of vertical tabs for me. Horizontal tabs don't scale for more than a dozen or so, but vertical tabs do. The "wasted" horizontal space is useless for reading most page, but displays enough data for practical navigation, and the vertical organization allows more-developed vertical scrolling technologies to be used with the tab list (e.g. scroll wheels).
- alpaca128 3y ago> the vertical organization allows more-developed vertical scrolling technologies to be used with the tab list (e.g. scroll wheels). Firefox also lets you scroll the tabs horizontally. Which I prefer to Brave's approach of simply not displaying the last tabs in the bar if it's too many, which means newly opened tabs simply never show up while the others are shrunk so far they become difficult to hit with the cursor.
- eviks 3y agoBut it's easier to scroll vertically, also because the scroll area is bigger