Vertical tabs with adjustable width

[atticus_roark]

I noticed that vertical tabs is finally coming and am currently using Firefox Nightly. A big thank you first of all for making this happen as it was the biggest blocker to coming back to firefox.

Similar to other browser deployments of vertical tabs, could you please have the width adjustable instead of fixed? Helps to see the name for quicker tab identification.

[Jon]

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[asafko]

Hi Atticus!

Thank you for your kind feedback!

We are definitely planning to make the sidebar with vertical tabs resizable.
However, it's a large chunk of work, and it might take us a few releases to get there. Please hang in there while we work on it. In the meantime, we'll soon have a slightly wider default to help with your case.

[igorlogius]

@asafko 

To be able to save the with individually for each sidebar element is cool.

Someone already did some legwork here: aminought/firefox-sidebar-width

[zerkshop]

It can be changed at least to a different fixed width using userChrome.css

I made some other tweaks too like smaller fontsize, less spacing, and a border between tabs

https://gist.github.com/digitalsignalperson/7e5d4a44fbd7427a2c11f5753b7920d7

[zekefast]

Would it be possible to reach same level of performance as with normal tabs?

With large amount of tabs vertical tabs slows down browser a lot! And amost any action in the browser triggers new hick-ups.

My guess is that new operations in browser triggers rerendering or some other updates on tabs list.

Vertical tabs is very nice feature which makes browser usable (from UX perspective) again with large amount of tabs. Unfortunately current implementation, like all plugins suffer from performance issues when amount of opened tabs is very large!

OS: Linux (64bit)

Kernel: 6.1.0-23-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.99-1 (2024-07-15) x86_64 GNU/Linux

FF version: 129.0

Desktop Environment: Gnome

Graphic Server: Wayland

[mcoyle1960]

Allow resizing of vertical tab dock.

Allow us to grab the vertical edge and slightly resize the dock to make the icons larger. This has several benefits:

Allows users with poor eyesight to better see a Favicon.
Allows for the addition of a close box if desired (see my other comment).
Compensates for that fact that unlike horizontal tabs, vertical tabs show no associated text.

[Jon]

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[Jon]

Potentially similar idea here: Vertical tabs with adjustable width 

[mcoyle1960]

Excellent. I agree. Similar idea.
What's the protocol here: leave this post? I don't see a way to delete or mark closed.

[Jon]

@mcoyle1960 I'll go ahead and merge the two threads together

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[4Train]

Perhaps vertical tabs can be more like Brave or Edge, rather than having to click 'show sidebars' at the top, there should be the option of hovering over the tabs with the cursor to expand them wider. And each tab should have an 'x' at the left or right side to close the tab. So you don't have to right click and click again to close a tab. And I also agree that the 'open new tab' button should be at the bottom of the vertical tabs please.

[MacAran]

Is there any way I can make the vertical tab bar "fly out" when I mouse over, so it gets wide enough to display the tab _names_ as well as the icon?

I am very fond of other browsers that let me see the tab names in vertical mode even with many many tabs open. Icon only is great, but less useful to me.