Things like Sidebury affect your window width and hence your fingerprint, Tor Browser is extremely careful with these. You might not be in the market for a privacy focused browser.
My whole point is that vertical tabs should be the damn default on any browser. How many people have a screen that is taller than it is wide? How many people have more than 8 tabs open at once?
> How many people have more than 8 tabs open at once?
Basically everyone I know, techie or not have many many tabs open, always. I might have 200+ at the moment? Something like that. They are hidden in containers so I don't see them all but in this current window I have maybe 20.
I never liked vertical tabs, takes up too much screen.
> How many people have more than 8 tabs open at once?
Don't most people? I basically always do. And yes, I'm a techie, but anecdotally I see many non-techies with zillions of browser tabs open because they barely notice that tabs are even a feature and so they continually allow new ones to be opened without going back and closing anything.
Vertical tabs take a much larger fraction of your screen than horizontal tabs. The entire original USP of Chrome was that the “Chrome” part of the browser window took the absolute bare minimum space in the screen letting you focus on the content. I think people still psychologically expect that to be true.
I wanted to love vertical tabs but I just keep going back. If you have multiple browsers open side by side it gets annoying how much screen the tabs take up.
There are plenty of use cases so I'm sure it varies.
For example, I often have my browser on the left side and my editor on the right. With only 50% of the width, I sometimes prefer to reclaim the horizontal space and switch back to horizontal tabs.
While I agree that vertical tabs make sense, personally I never use desktop browsers in fullscreen (nor almost any other application other than IDEs). So I’m probably f’ed anyway with regard to fingerprinting.
okay, people need to stop treating digital canvases like an analog surface. It doesn't matter what dimensions your screen is. The paradigm for virtually every application on a computer is to scroll vertically, so practically that space is unlimited.
What people want to do is fit stuff side-by-side and move up and down, rarely ever the other way around. That's why vertical tabs make no sense in most contexts. It's why narrow-width fonts exist, those columns are valuable real estate as soon as you have another window pulled up to the left or right, there's virtually no case where a few rows made a difference.
wintermutestwin|2 years ago
omgmajk|2 years ago
Basically everyone I know, techie or not have many many tabs open, always. I might have 200+ at the moment? Something like that. They are hidden in containers so I don't see them all but in this current window I have maybe 20.
I never liked vertical tabs, takes up too much screen.
arrowsmith|2 years ago
Don't most people? I basically always do. And yes, I'm a techie, but anecdotally I see many non-techies with zillions of browser tabs open because they barely notice that tabs are even a feature and so they continually allow new ones to be opened without going back and closing anything.
ramraj07|2 years ago
I wanted to love vertical tabs but I just keep going back. If you have multiple browsers open side by side it gets annoying how much screen the tabs take up.
c_s_guy|2 years ago
For example, I often have my browser on the left side and my editor on the right. With only 50% of the width, I sometimes prefer to reclaim the horizontal space and switch back to horizontal tabs.
layer8|2 years ago
Barrin92|2 years ago
What people want to do is fit stuff side-by-side and move up and down, rarely ever the other way around. That's why vertical tabs make no sense in most contexts. It's why narrow-width fonts exist, those columns are valuable real estate as soon as you have another window pulled up to the left or right, there's virtually no case where a few rows made a difference.
n0tinventedhere|2 years ago
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