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atticus_roark
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Status: In development

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.

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Status changed to: New idea
Jon
Community Manager
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asafko
Employee
Employee

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
Making moves

@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
Making moves

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
New member

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
Strollin' around

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.

Status changed to: New idea
Jon
Community Manager
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Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open to votes (aka kudos) and comments.

Jon
Community Manager
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Potentially similar idea here: Vertical tabs with adjustable width 

mcoyle1960
Strollin' around

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
Community Manager
Community Manager

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

Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

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

4Train
New member

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
New member

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.

weltyripper
New member

verticle tabs - resizable side bar

Please make the verticle tabs side bar resizable like MS Edge. Its fixed width can be a bit annoying. Until then I will continue to use MS Edge which is basically just Google Chrome with vtabs.  I stopped using firefox a long time ago when everyone switched to Chrome. It seems since then Firefox has gotten way better, its much more responsive and I would like to swap back.

Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

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