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]

Thanks all for the feedback and help improving the Firefox experience!

Good news, this feature is being worked on.

Stay tuned here for more updates 😀

[AnFire]

Yes. It's a great improvement, but width needs to be adjustable. Otherwise, letterboxing can lead to massive margins that could easily be avoided.

[doublethink]

Its somewhat funny that the options sidebar for the vertical tab bar has the adjustment, but the element the user wants to shrink down, you can't.  But I understand it probably is much more complicated than this, since the element looks to be of a different type.

Count me in as grateful for the push in the direction, and it would be wonderful for the ability to adjust the width of this in future.

Thanks.

[atticus_roark]

woo hoo, it's here! Thank you dev team for making this happen!!! really appreciate it!

[asafko]

Hi folks,

You can now adjust the width of the vertical tabs all channels. Just make sure you update your Firefox release version to 135.

Here's a little demo of how it looks. We might still work on the target size, but hopefully, this will save y'all the trouble of always dealing with the same fixed width of your tabs.

[Jon]

Great news...

This has been delivered—see @asafko's recent post in the thread for more details, including a short demo of how it looks.

[vgnmnky]

Loving the new tab groups and vertical tabs, really useful.  It would be even more useful to me if there was an option to shrink the vertical spacing between the tabs/groups.  Maybe separate settings for compact groups and compact tabs.  Being able to drag and move the groups would be great too, though I'm sure that's on the way.

[storkinsj]

Great work on everything. Of course we need to be able to pick a sane default and currently the vertical tab space creates a ton of wasted space- all the way down the left side of the browser window.

Horizontal tabs in the beginning occupied as much space as they can until they were shrunk down. Ruining that behavior resulted in being unable to really see the title of a web page- something that could distinguish what page in a site you were on very quickly. I think breaking that feature actually led us to vertical tabs.

I still use windows more than tabs, and group tabs of a similar topic into a window. If that window only has one tab, I am wasting 1/4 of the whole screen with the way the feature works today. Let's be able to set a sane default width on our own.

[storkinsj]

My first suggestion is not to lose everything I type when I click on post your comment when not authenticated.

My main point of course is that the default size of the vertical tab width is actually much more important than being able to drag-adjust it, and I don't see a way to do that. 99% of the time we are likely to drag it to the same size we all want. Current feature just causes us to repeat that over and over. Please help us by creating a way to quickly change the default width.