Native Vertical Tabs

[Gecko]

From the previous post on Crowdicity:

I would like to see vertical tabs baked in. MS Edge now has it out of the box!

I currently use addons for this - but there's no way to disable the top tab bar, which duplicates the tabs and takes up space.

Vertical tabs (with top bar disabled) would free up more space for web content, which is (usually) vertical. Most screens are widescreen (RIP ThinkPad 4:3 ratios), so the less browser UI at the top/bottom, the more content we can view.

The original post received 154 votes and as such was the 3rd highest voted post in the "General" category.

[asafko]

Hi folks,

We have landed the first, very early version of vertical tabs for you to try out in the latest Nightly. Please see more details in this post.

Please note that we have not yet landed the patch that removes the empty space of the navigation bar and forces application controls in one line. Hopefully, this will land sometime in August, so you might want to wait for that improvement. We are also making updates and improvements to the experience daily, so please hang in there while we improve it.

[Kazper]

This is great news! I'll try it out (well aware of the work that still needs to be done) a bit in the coming days. Great work!

[panosl]

Is there a way to define a keyboard shortcut to toggle the whole sidebar on macOS?

The options up till now are:

• cmd+B for Bookmarks
• cmd+shift+H for History

I don't see an option for the whole sidebar. There is a Show/Hide sidebars toolbar button. Ideally I'd like to have a way to toggle it with a shortcut.

Also the Hide sidebar option does not seem to take effect ever.

Let me know if I should raise an issue for those.

Other than that, thank you for making it a native option.