Stacked tabs has been removed. Is there any way to organize huge amount of opened tabs?

[37x...@gmail.com]

Hello.

Intro: user report bug with Stacked Tabs flag for Chromium with Aura on Linux and developer remove flag from Windows.

This code path is not intended to be ever shipped other than on primarily touch devices (e.g. tablets). Since it will not be shipped or tested on other platforms we will be removing this flag. The functionality will still exist in platforms where it can be adequately supported and tested.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=332077#c10
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/bMenJIztmdA

Why this feature can be supported and supported on touch devices but not on Windows? Really don't understand.

How I can select tab what I want if I see just icon?

Is there any other method to work with huge amount of opened tabs in Chrome without using third-party extentions?
Something like this https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/chromium-discuss/stacked/chromium-discuss/TLqedwjoTKI/50IiCYpvX9MJ

I can separate tabs in few browser windows but maybe there is another cool way.

[Patrick]

I also have an issue with the removal of the stacked tabs flag.  If makes chrome virtually unusable for me.  I routinely have 50 or more tabs open, and without this option, the tabs shrink to tiny little bumps.  They are so small that the x to close them is bigger than the tab, and I accidentally close the tab when I am trying to select a tab adjacent to it.  I am reverting to Chrome 36, and will not update until this issue is resolved.  If the functionality still exists, then give me the flag back so I can enable it!!

[Peter]

This is a usability nightmare for people who like to keep many tabs open, like myself.   One of the main guidelines of usability is "Prevent user errors" and this fails spectacularly at that.  In fact, once you have enough tabs open, user error is unavoidable, because the user can't even see icons for the tabs to have any chance of knowing which is which.   The user will not only select the wrong tab frequently, but will also accidentally close tabs because the tab close button can become larger than the tab buttons themselves.  Stacked tabs fixed this problem, and combined with a third party tab manager that lets you see a vertical list of all tabs, made Chromes tab system almost as usable as Firefox's default system.  It's both arrogant and idiotic of the devs to remove a popular feature that makes their product more usable to a larger number of users, when the feature causes no problems and can easily be disabled by the user if it did cause problems.  Especially when it's an option that was disabled by default anyway.  I'm going back to Firefox as my primary browser (its tab handling has always been better than Chrome's anyway), and will have to install an old version of Chrome for the few sites that work better with Chrome.

On Friday, August 29, 2014 5:34:25 PM UTC-4, 37x...@gmail.com wrote:

[Gucio Gu]

I use TabMan or Tab-Sidebar extensions. It's not perfect but at least i can see titles on tabs. I'm sick of Google and I'm using different browsers every day, like maxthon3 (version 4 has no vertical tabs anymore) or Midori, but the only one that works so far is Firefox with vertical tabs...

[Paulius R]

For me it is nightmare to use Chrome when there is no stacking tabs. Please return this flag back!

[Marcello Abbate]

Yes, absolutely!

As I don't have a 24" display, please restore stacked tabs!

Bye

[Adrian Lopez]

This is a must, please restore it.

[Nathan Collins]

Please restore this!

[Tony Robson]

I have also become so frustrated at tabs not being able to stack I have actually stopped using Chrome.
Why do the tabs stack beautifully on iPhone and iPad but not on the PC?   Seems really silly.
Please enable stacked tabs by default.

[Cent Browser]

Cent Browser(based on Chromium) is specified for tab hoggers.

[miweinst]

This is an old thread I've just discovered, as I've finally been frustrated enough to google this. Please excuse the following essay if any solution or answer has been provided in the last three years...

I have been using Chrome for years, and am even excited about (and defend) the direction it has been heading in. But I as a user, I cannot understand how this seems like a trivial flag to the developers. This is a single feature that will make Chrome unusuable to me, and I really will only be able to use it for the limited apps I use regularly. It's no longer functional as a modern browser, where many, many users workflow involves multiple tabs within the screen real estate of window management grids. The top of my Chrome window looks like a triangle wave form. To have to "view all tabs" in order to change tabs every time is a huge pain. As a software developer, I can't understand what technical challenge could lead to the decision of a UI change with that significant of an effect on modern user workflow.

Anyway, in short, this basically makes Chrome unusuable to me. Yes, I can adjust my workflow to a multi-window multi-desktop/spaces organization, but that becomes even more confusing to find a site you opened twenty minutes ago. Please at least consider a viable alternative to usable tab navigation before making me scrub through a triangle waveform to find where that link I opened into a new tab is hiding, or visually inspect the UI of every page in an all-tabs UI (which I have never used in my workflow before) and scrolling until I find what I think looks like the right pattern of text blocks on the forum page I'm looking for.

Anyway, you get my point. I would love an explanation, as I understand a lot is going on behind the scenes, but as a software engineer and a dedicated Chrome user, I would just like to understand how the UX designers intend for users to navigate upwards of tens of tabs within the modern Chrome. Until then, I am exploring alternatives. (I've tried third-party extensions; they are buggy and I'm yet to find a good solution, and anyway fundamental browser usability should not be delegated to app developers for those reasons.) 

Stack them vertically, scroll them off screen, stack them as you did before... whatever. Just provide some alternative workflow please, I want to use Chrome. Really badly! Sorry for the essay.

[Martin Schlatter]

 I don't understand why they refuse to change the tab behaviour.

[gil]

Because they don't want people to open to many tabs, because if they do, peoples that has a low specs computer, will start to crawl down. And they also want to be unique to the other browsers so, they will not fix this. there is already a lot of bug issue created because of this and the older i can find is dated since 2008. I hope google will celebrate the 10 year birthday of this issue next year.