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That Sidetab mockup looks great. Back before I switched to Chrome from Firefox, I used vertical tabs in Firefox, and it was awesome.

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You can enable it in Chrome right now with the -enable-vertical-tabs command line flag. For reference, here is the source file where most of the switches are laid out:

http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/chrome/common/chrome_s...

That's some nicely commented code. Also, at the very bottom there's:

    // DO NOT ADD YOUR CRAP TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS FILE.
    //
    // You were going to just dump your switches here, weren't you? Instead,
    // please put them in alphabetical order above, or in order inside the
    // appropriate ifdef at the bottom. The order should match the header.

Boy are those ugly with no graphical distinction between tabs.

I was under the impression that that will not lay out your tabs in a vertical tree, only vertically. Is that not the case?

I find this easier: about:flags

Not every flag is in there though. I wasn't aware that the vertical tabs flag had graduated to about:flags status but now I see that it has.

Fwiw, I've used OmniWeb (MacOSX only) for years and they've had thumbnailed sidetabs for a looooong time. The tabs display in a scrollable drawer. I found an inferior sidetab plugin for Firefox when I was on Linux for a while and have found no comparable thing for IE (I don't use Chrome); I feel vaguely lost with top-tabs because they're too squished, can't be read, and are hard to scroll around. ;P

It's possible today. about:flags.

What release are you using and on what OS?

I'm running '11.0.672.2 dev' on OS X and don't see such an option.

o_0 They either removed it, or it's a cr-48 only option. I'd check but it's not around at the moment. Sorry.

It's on every OS but OS X, for whatever reason.

That is frustrating. :(

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