What do you think about vertical tabs?

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Since vertical tab features released to the stable version of the Microsoft Edge, I believe majority of Microsoft Edge user would be able to try this feature out . I am wondering how is your experience about this feature?

Do you love it?

Are you using vertical or horizontal tab in most of the time?

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That means EXTRA clicks to get to other tabs. A useless "feature".
Not sure why you are saying this, but when you have too many tabs it is hard to manage and view them, they become too small. The vertical tab is great when you have so many tabs and want to manage them.

@Reza_Ameri I'm glad it works for you.  Not so much for me.  I don't want to minimize the vertical tabs (you can't see what the tab is if minimized) so you have to expand to see the various vertical tabs.  An extra click.  And you always lose the top line anyway for the "current tab".  Just less space as was commented previously with the stats.

Today, the vertical tabs just appeared for me.  It was not a good experience as I only had 2 open.  My preference is to NOT have them EVER.

It depends on usage and if you have two or three tabs, you could just use normal tab but try open let say 20 or 30 tabs and you will see, you definitely will need vertical tab. However, for two or few tabs what you said make sense.
Why would I use a feature that reduces usable screen estate from my browser? The title bar takes a good chunk of space that's pretty useless other than to display the title. My suggestion is to use the omnibar to show the title of the page, and show the url when you mouseover it. That way we actually save screenspace by using vertical tabs because the footprint of the top bar is reduced.
Side bar is different story and you could customize or hide it.
The benefit of the vertical tab is when you have tons of tabs like 30 and you see them very small and it is hard to see icon and when you put them vertical, you see them as a list, and it is easy to manage.
It might not be helpful when you have few tabs but when you several tabs, then it would be a valuable feature.
Not interested in vertical tabs and never use them. What I want in Edge is scrollable horizontal tab bar, as in Firefox and also able to be switched on in Chrome (though my use of Chrome is miniscule). Lack of that keeps my use of Edge to just staying with my TV Guide open in it plus the Edge NTP and Bing homepage just to look for the daily pic in case I want to add it to my desktop background slideshow, while my real browsing is in Firefox where I often have 300, 400, even 600 tabs open, easily handled with the scrolling horizontal tabs.
There are several features in the Microsoft Edge, and you might use what you want and don't use them if you don't see any benefit.
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