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Tree Style Tab - give me space!
Chromium https://9to5google.com/2019/04/03/tab-groups-chrome-os-desktop/ are coming. Ax extra compact tab view is also possible with https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabli/igeehkedfibbnhbfponhjjplpkeomghi and such. Side panel still gives advantages as feature aggregator (tabs, favs, downloads, news etc). Inventor - Opera.
sambul95I still prefer to have my tabs down the left side, becasue of the screen space there that is otherwise wasted. Tabs along the top of a widescreen device just take up space or show so little of themselves that it is hard to work out from a letter or two what they are. Tabs down the left allow far more to be shown, and give the possibility of nesting.
There are lots of times that apps and programs could use the space more efficiently if they would put their menus down the left. Just imagine being able to better see a word document or excel spreadsheet, or any other file if the Ribbon was on the left. No more having to collapse the ribbion just to see your document better.
Side panel requires Chromium engine forking, and there may be patent issues with Opera. Check some Chrome Tab Management extensions for now.
Elliot Kirk Since I last posted, and now that Edge Dev is able to use the Chrome store, I have been using Tabs Outliner, and have even paid a small sum for the full version (a few extras, but it helps encourage the developer). It has an amazing set of features, and if used carefully it can be a real benefit. The key feature is that it can close your tabs for you, thus releasing memory and resources, yet still remember them and reopen them at will. It can manage several different browser windows, and close them and reopen them at will, even days or weeks later. It has been exceedingly useful while doing family tree work, so that I can keep different lines of research apart, and even suspend them when I need to do real stuff, and return later.
It would make a good base for a Microsoft option.
The irritating thing is that I cannot dock the Tabs Outliner window with the other Edge Dev windows; they have to be manually sized and sometimes seem to go out of line. That is why I gave up on it a year ago when I tried it in Chrome. At the time I just went back to Firefox, where Tree Style Tabs worked well. But having now used it for a couple of weeks, it is so good that I would even consider a third screen just to put the Tabs Outliner window into.
fedupwithusernames Tabs Outliner sadly isn't the way forward.
It lost its paid for abilities in Edge, Edge beta and Edge Dev, because it cannot cope with the updates to Edge, saying it is not registered. It was a chrome add on, and Microsoft say there may be issues.
I still use it a lot in Chrome (+beta +canary) which have therefore become my goto browsers instead of edge. Sadly the developer seems to have gone missing, having been responsive. That means the paid for version can save the tab tree to the cloud, but not restore it. It is a minor irritation solved by saving locally to a pondering folder so it syncs across my computers.
Firefox is still a goto browser but because tree style tabs needs the tabs open to work well, it gets to cluttered. With tabs outliner, it is like having a tree of dynamic favourites that remember the last page used on a site.
Please Microsoft - if one lone developer could do it.... surely it is easy for an organisation like yours.
I completely agree with organizing tabs in a side pane. It's a much better utilization of screen space and is soooo much easier to manage a large number ot tabs.
Given the wide format of most screens these days, if the browser was invented all over again today, it seems logical to put the tabs on the side would be the solution
The lack of this feature in Chrome is one of the main reasons FireFox has been primary browser.
The FireFox Tree Tabs extention has a ton of features that would be smart for Edge to include, such as folders, groups, and sessions. The customization is nice too. What Tree Tabs lacks is a bit of GUI refinement and session saving.
Elliot Kirk Thanks for your interest.
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