Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs

Re:Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs by tivert on Thursday June 01, 2023 @05:20PM (#36157500)

> It's strange to me how a key selling point of these vertical tabs is "save on vertical space", but they almost always still include a header bar.

Honestly, that's not the main selling point of vertical tabs for me. Horizontal tabs don't scale for more than a dozen or so, but vertical tabs do. The "wasted" horizontal space is useless for reading most page, but displays enough data for practical navigation, and the vertical organization allows more-developed vertical scrolling technologies to be used with the tab list (e.g. scroll wheels).

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Re:Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs by alpaca128 on Thursday June 01, 2023 @05:41PM (#36157749)

> the vertical organization allows more-developed vertical scrolling technologies to be used with the tab list (e.g. scroll wheels).

Firefox also lets you scroll the tabs horizontally. Which I prefer to Brave's approach of simply not displaying the last tabs in the bar if it's too many, which means newly opened tabs simply never show up while the others are shrunk so far they become difficult to hit with the cursor.

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Re:Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs by eviks on Thursday June 01, 2023 @11:01PM (#36160345)

But it's easier to scroll vertically, also because the scroll area is bigger

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