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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.
sambul95Opera has a side panel, but tabs down the left are extensions from others. Firefox has a sidebar and has done for many years. That is what Tree Style Tabs uses.
As I said, I'm using Tabs Outliner in Edge and Edge Dev, as well as in Chrome. It works but isn't native.
Edge has side panels on the right - the pop out that includes Favourites, Reading list, History and Downloads, plus there is another for Developer Tools. That suggests that a side panel is not a patent issue.