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If you prioritize tabs on the side (instead of up there) I will come and work for free on your project.

Why does it have to be one or the other?

because one is objectively better than the other

Surely not. They are simply each better for different use cases.

If you have ~5 tabs then tabs on the side is a waste of screen real estate. If you have 50 then on the top is unreadable.

Do you ever have websites that use the full width length of your page? I’ve never seen that except for horizontal scroll webpages or if you are on a tiny screen.

I definitely have. Gmail is one that comes to mind: it scales to let you see more of a message.

A lot of people are on 13” laptop monitors, they’re not that wide.

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some of us prefer to live relatively statelessly and don't need to seek counseling for tab-hoarderism

Well guess what. Browsers have decided for you already.

https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/vertical-tabs...

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