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The real solution Vivaldi offers to the tabpocalypse has been here for ages: tabs on the side instead of on top! We all have widescreen monitors now, so losing 50 or 100 pixels on the horizontal plane isn't really a big problem. And the tabs then become scrollable downwards, while still keeping their readability. It took me a couple of days to get used to them over on the sidebar, but I could never go back.

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I've been trying out the side tabs for a week now and cannot get used to it. So many sites I use have left hand menus, e.g. JIRA, AWS, that is seems like cognitive overload to see both menus butted up against each other.

With top tabs there's at least the URL bar to provide some spatial separation between the two.

Just push it to the right then...? If it's doable, that is. That's where I keep my system taskbar.

Yeah, I do mine on the right, and keep the browser on my right-hand monitor, so the list of tabs is way at one side of my view. It's worked really well for me.

Yeah, in Firefox I've been really happy with Tree-Style Tabs on the right hand side.

Exactly what I am doing. Tabs on the right on the right-hand monitor on Mac (which has window controls on the left). They never get in the way, basically I only see them when I am going to use them.

Same here, using Tree-Style Tabs on Firefox. I’m on a Mac and would like to use Safari but it has no support for tabs down the side - impossible to go back.

I've been using Tree Style Tabs for a long time now. The transition was rough, but I never want to go back. Tabs are grouped automatically (you can of course drag/drop them), everything is in trees and branches you can close them as groups and subgroups, reload, favorite a tree, restore a tree, move to new window and so on and so on. It's absolutely amazing.

The transition wasn't rough to me at all. When I finally decided to give it a try it was like seeing the seas part before me. I can legitimately not go back to non tree based desktop browsing.

I like the concept of the tab sidebar, but I can't get over having tabs in a different location. Even though I'm fully aware that I have more horizontal screen relestate than vertical, I never remember to use the sidebar.

I've wanted to use tab groups for a while, but it never stuck because of the UI. I'm hoping this helps, and I love that they offer a sidebar layout, too.

I don't need the tab text on screen all the time, so while sometimes I'll pull up a tab sidebar I spend the vast majority of my time with a line of favicons and it doesn't make a significant difference where you put that line.

The real solution to tabpocalypse is closing those browser tabs!

I periodically bookmark my open tabs to a dated folder and close all for sanity. Bookmarks search via address bar will find any previous tabs that I still need to access.

I went for "Snooze Tabs": https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/snoozetabs/

You can set a date&time it will open again. It's perfect. I can better split private and business stuff, regular pages I re-visit and so on.

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