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Iron Contributor

Jan 19, 2021

Enable horizontal and vertical tab UI at once, with tab groups in vertical tabs

Vertical tabs haven't been as useful to me on a smaller laptop screen because: They take some horizontal space away and the title bar still takes up as much space as with regular horizontal tabs le...

HotCakeX

MVP

Jan 20, 2021

bhargavreddy

I like the idea, it'd be interesting, have you sent feedback through Edge browser about it?

by the way, currently you can switch to full screen by pressing F11 and have access to your horizontal tab strip, but vertical tab strip don't appear in that mode yet.

so what if you had access to vertical tabs when in full screen? would it help you?

another thing I'm thinking about that could help in small screens is the ability to auto-hide favorites bar.

bhargavreddy

Iron Contributor

Jan 21, 2021

I did send the feedback through the official channel. I meant this feature more in tune with something that can solve the constant switching between multiple browser windows and vertical tabs UI seems like a really good place to show tab groups since I didn't find its original feature less useful on smaller screens.

HotCakeX
MVP
Jan 21, 2021
Yeah i agree,
vertical tabs wasn't exactly created with the idea of freeing up more space, the way i understood from developers' comments is that they made it so that we would be able to manage lots of tabs easier and see their titles better.
tab grouping doesn't take a lot of space, i mean when we talk about vertical tab strip, you literally got unlimited space since you can scroll down and up, unlike the horizontal strip 🙂

btw, vertical tabs is now available on Edge stable ver 88
behind a flag: edge://flags/#edge-vertical-tabs
- JC130839
  Copper Contributor
  Mar 01, 2022
  HotCakeX I've tried to use the vertical tabs groups system since it was introduced, but have now given up, as on three occasions they have disappeared after closing my browser (Edge). I cannot be bothered having to constantly set them up allover again. It works reasonably well once the tab groups are established, but I am not happy with the fragility.