Side Tabs

[Ryan Briscall]

I think it's safe to say that the need for side tabs is much greater
than you might think.

I think there are many web devs out there who would prefer to have
side tabs. The problem is, there was never an option for it to be
found in the Chrome interface. The second problem is, many web devs
are still on FireFox.

I believe the need is definitely there. I believe more and more these
days people are opening more tabs, and a vertical listing only seems
logical to have.

This topic has been discussed for past 3 years now; at this point, we
should have something by now.

I've been to 5 pages now on this topic, and it's not quite clear where
we currently stand.

I heard someone made a template for this, and proposed it to the
Chrome team?

[Ryan Briscall]

Well, I certainly did not intend to create a new thread on this. I
wanted to reply to the current thread.

I clicked "+ new post", and instead it created a new thread with my
post in it.

Can someone merge this into
http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-discuss/browse_thread/thread/62095b30958a3374/0b35da7c5e6c4fb1#0b35da7c5e6c4fb1
?

[Capy]

@Ryan

It's not quite the same, but the upcoming tab grouping behavior might help.

From Wikipedia under Chrome 20:

Panorama View. Tabs have a minimum width and begin to stack at the sides. The tabs (excluding the current tab) closest to the current tab are on top. Previously, the tab to the left was on top. 

[Aaron Blank]

If you are referring to the (presumably recently introduced) "Stack tabs" flag, from an end-user's perspective, it makes me want to rip my hair out because I do not memorize which tab is which in the stack, and considering I tend to have tabs open for long periods of time (almost like a queue), having a full list of them for viewing at all times is the only viable solution, rather than playing roulette and hoping to get what I am looking for or even better yet brute forcing what I am looking for. Side tabs should *really* be re-introduced, and to this day were the single tab system I and everyone I talk to with a wide-screen monitor was happy with. The only reason it was not very widely adopted is because people did not know about it, if people had known about it I can guarantee that lots of people (a large percent) who use Chrome would be using it, and be quite happy with it.

To answer any developers hopes that the stack tabs feature might help: No, no it won't. Unless I am just the wrong "use case" it makes me want to close Chrome because it is just so nonsensical. But, that's my opinion so take it with a grain of salt, other people who like side tabs could like it, I cannot imagine why, but I'm not going to speak for everybody.

[Erwin M.]

Oh yes please. I have whopping 1920 pixels vertical space, but only 1080 horizontal space. That means I can see only 8 tabs horizontal (with 170px per tab). Do you know how many tabs I can put vertical? 82 tabs (vertical one tab needs only 22px)!

Usually I have at least 10 tabs open, and if I work I open more then 30 tabs. There is no way at all to show 30 tabs horizontally in a user friendly way.

I don't understand why in the year 2012 this is such an issue.