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.
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.
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.
I can see 40 tabs with 40 characters of tab name in a single window (actually, I pin 3 rows of 8 tabs, which takes up 3 tab spaces, so I can see 24 pinned tabs and 37 full size)
Total Suspender extension is critical if you have lots of tabs open at once.
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.
Interesting. I have never had a need to not have the browser take the full width (at least on my 16" MBP. What's the use case / workflow?
On the other hand, I have good tab discipline in general, so vertical tabs would waste even more space by virtue of dedicating a lot of real estate for displaying next to nothing. But who needs all those tabs anyway?
While doing research, each search yields numerous links that I need to evaluate so I'll open them all in tabs and then I go through them as a task list to whittle down.
I have a whole window for just email + comms. I have several different businesses that all use separate email, etc in containers.
I also have several interests where each gets its own window and has up to 24 pinned tabs of key sites for that topic. These are not business, so I don't have time pressure to whittle down the tabs that I open.
I currently have 368 tabs open and they are all easy to access: Select a window by topic (I use the Titler extension to name windows) and I have 3 rows of 8 tabs pinned at the top and up to 37 tabs with 40 characters of tab name space. So in each window, I can see 61 tabs without scrolling.
Why would I ever want "tab discipline?"
“ I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t use vertical threads”
“ doesn’t work on small screens”
“Get a bigger screen”
Consider that most people don’t care to even if they have the money. I sure don’t care for a bigger screen. I find myself more productive in a small screen anyway.
[1]: https://www.pcworld.com/article/823939/vertical-tabs-in-fire...
Sidebery can be toggled with ctrl-e. I just enable when I need it. I also the horizontal tab bar with custom css, saving the space.
https://gist.github.com/theprojectsomething/6813b2c27611be03...
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.
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.
Edit: I mean, it's still a session - just a permanent session.
Personally find vertical tabs easier to organise and take up less space: https://gist.github.com/theprojectsomething/6813b2c27611be03...