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It doesn’t replace Firefox’s top-mounted tab bar (and there’s no way I can find to turn that off), so you’ll have to put up with that duplication. Mozilla hasn’t yet seen fit to support vertical tabs within Firefox, but the Vertical Tabs Reloaded add-on gets you part of the way there. Brave does remember the tab’s history, even through restarts, but it’s still clumsy.Īlthough Brave’s implementation of vertical tabs doesn’t make me want to switch back from Arc, I prefer it to the old top-mounted tab bar and plan to keep it active. Without better pinning, if you navigate within a standard tab in one of Brave’s tab groups, the only way of reverting to the tab’s original URL is by navigating back within it. Unfortunately, pinning tabs in Brave causes them to jump to the top of the vertical tab sidebar and display as tiny unnamed icons, rendering the feature useless for multiple pages on the same site. To populate my tab groups, I Command-clicked my bookmark folders for TidBITS and FLRC to open all their tabs simultaneously, then combined them into tab groups. It’s easy to create tab groups by selecting multiple tabs, Control-clicking them, and choosing Add Tabs to Group > New Group. Once that’s done, your tabs appear in a left-hand sidebar instead of at the top of the screen. To turn them on, navigate to brave://settings/appearance and select Use Vertical Tabs. Previously my favorite browser, thanks to its privacy focus and helpful features, Brave has just added vertical tabs in version 1.52. Frustrating, but perhaps these other browser makers will eventually come to their senses and keep pinned tabs in their groups. All the rest of the browsers support tab groups and pinned tabs, but as soon as you pin a tab, it leaves its group and shrinks from an icon with a name to just a tiny icon. Of the major browsers, Safari stands out because it lets you create tab groups and pin tabs within those groups. Of these other browsers, Vivaldi comes closest to Arc, followed by SigmaOS, though neither has encouraged me to switch. What makes Arc’s vertical tabs so compelling for me is how I can create, organize, and rename pinned tabs and then collect them into workspaces, making all the pages I regularly use just a click or two away. Whatever the reason, if you’re not using vertical tabs now, I’d encourage you to try them, either in your current browser or one of the newcomers mentioned below. Or perhaps the industry has hit some sort of intersection between users clamoring for the option and browser makers gaining the gumption to brainstorm better interfaces. I’m not alone-when I mentioned this fact to Tonya, who uses Safari as one of her main browsers, she was equally unaware.īut now that I’ve become a complete convert to the wonders of vertical tabs, I’m seeing them everywhere.

My real blind spot was Safari, which added vertical tabs some time ago but failed to communicate that fact in the interface in a way I noticed.

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I knew that Microsoft Edge had added vertical tabs at some point, but the only reason I even have Edge on my Mac was so I could try Bing’s AI feature. Before Arc, I knew there were extensions for Google Chrome and add-ons for Firefox, but every time I played with them, they were too awkward to use for real. One of the features that attracted me to the new Web browser Arc was the way it organizes tabs vertically in a left-hand sidebar (see “ Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web,” ).

#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financialsĪ Roundup of Vertical Tab Support in Mac Web Browsers.

#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD.

#1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors.

#1661: Mimestream app for Gmail, auto-post WordPress headlines to Twitter and Mastodon, My Photo Stream shutting down.

#1662: New Macs, 12 top OS features for 2023, vertical tabs in Web browsers, watchOS 9.5.1.

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