"List All Tabs" button into sidebar for Vertical Tabs

[falonyates]

Summary: When "Vertical Tabs" is on, the "List All Tabs" button should be in the sidebar with the vertical tabs, rather than in the main browser toolbar.

The "List All Tabs" button is located at the end of the Tabs row when Horizontal Tabs are used. This makes sense. (It appears as a downward chevron in this configuration.)

When Vertical Tabs are on, the "List All Tabs" button goes into the main browser toolbar. (It's the middle one here; different icon image for some reason.)

But that puts it fully on the opposite side of the window as the Vertical Tabs, which default to the left sidebar. I was looking for this button when using Vertical Tabs and couldn't find it. I expected it to be with the other icons at the bottom of the Vertical Tabs sidebar:

It seems more intuitive to me to put the List All Tabs button down here, or below the "Open a New Tab" button, rather than in the main toolbar at upper right.

[Jon]

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[myspace]

+1 

[asafko]

Hi @falonyates and @myspace,

We are actually planning to bring a more robust and functional version of the open tabs/list all tabs menu to the sidebar as a standalone panel. Our current assumption is that it would be mostly helpful for horizontal tab users, though, as when folks have 10+ tabs in that mode, it becomes challenging to find tabs that are playing audio or quickly switch to a tab (vertical scanning works much faster than horizontal).

In vertical tabs mode, these tasks are much quicker and don't require a standalone vertical view, since vertical tabs are that vertical view. I'm curious how you currently use the List all tabs menu – would very much appreciate your insight, as we are trying to catalog use cases before we implement open tabs / list all tabs view in the sidebar. 

[fowlsunlimited]

Another reason to move the "list all tabs" in the sidebar is for opening closed group tabs. Browsers are RAM intensive and I have found using the "group tabs" feature a great way when not working on something to close all tabs associated, thus freeing up RAM. Using vertical tabs is great except for managing closed group tabs. Perhaps there is another way that can be used to manage closed group tabs, but adding the option to move "list all tabs" to the sidebar would be a simpler fix. 

[00FF00]

Hi @asafko & @falonyates , you each may be interested in this conversation on Reddit about related ideas but I'll also add here my response to asafko's question posed to you about how the List all tabs button is currently utilized. I already explained it a bit in my comments on that post but I'll say it here more thoroughly: I don't use that option too often, but I definitely do use it and often enough to keep it on my toolbar that I've removed all of what I consider to be 'extra' buttons - so that's not nothing. The reasons I go to it are non specific really and kind of silly I guess but mostly because it is... kind of like a "zoomed out" version of vertical tabs so it kind of allows slightly quicker scanning than the actual tab sidebar. I also use that search tabs feature included in that menu though I tend to go to Firefox view for that slightly more often or in the situation where a tab I thought was in the currently open window apparently is not.

For that matter since I'm here, I explain the reasoning a bit more on that post but, despite looking for it fairly often and being mildly annoyed it isn't there, it makes so much sense that in my mind it's already included in the context menu when right clicking a tab: in addition to "open new tab below" there should be an option for "open new window" as well as "open tab in new window". I realize that second one is a redundant option since technically you can simply 'drag' the tab out of the window and I guess that does open up some possibly problematic questions like "where do we put the new window" and so on but nonetheless I feel I should include it in this suggestion though as always I must end this statement with "I digress"