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Google Chrome - Side Tabs

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So, the side tabs-feature in Google Chrome has been removed.
They wanted Chrome to be simplistic, and that side tabs was not widely used.

What do you think about this?

I used this feature, and now I really miss it. It's are pain and a mess to browse my tabs horizontally, and maybe I even have to scroll to find the desired content.
I'm using a wide screen monitor, so I have some extra space vertically. Side tabs was filling up that space nicely.
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Sounds like that was more of a development test. I didn't even know it was possible. Was it ever actually released, or were you using the command like option to enable it? Sounds like a neat idea, but I'd have to try it to see what I really think.
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dandymcgee wrote:Sounds like that was more of a development test. I didn't even know it was possible. Was it ever actually released, or were you using the command like option to enable it? Sounds like a neat idea, but I'd have to try it to see what I really think.
I'm not sure if it was officially announced.
You could type "about:flags" in the url-field, and click "enable side tabs".

For me, it was really useful. I tend to have a lot of tabs open at the same time, so now my eyes have to move a lot more to check what's up there, instead of a simple vertical list.

What's more efficient to read and search trough:

google, facebook, youtube, the chaos rift, github, lazyfoo, gamedev, bbc, explosm, cad, twitter

or

google,
facebook,
youtube,
the chaos rift
github
lazyfoo
gamedev
bbc
explosm
cad
twitter

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Didn't know you could do that in Chrome, but that's the way I have my tabs set up in Visual Studio. I prefer it way better that way, though I feel like I trade the ability to see what all is open with whitespace.
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That does look like it could be useful when you have many tabs open. Thanks for the about:flags link though, that's pretty cool. I've used about:cache before to rip audio / video from websites, lol.
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It's easier for me to just read tabs like they already are, plus it looks nicer and saves room. But thanks for the INFORMATION!
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LeonBlade wrote:It's easier for me to just read tabs like they already are, plus it looks nicer and saves room. But thanks for the tip!
It wasn't really a tip, lol.
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dandymcgee wrote:
LeonBlade wrote:It's easier for me to just read tabs like they already are, plus it looks nicer and saves room. But thanks for the tip!
It wasn't really a tip, lol.
You know what I mean... :nono:
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LeonBlade wrote:
dandymcgee wrote:
LeonBlade wrote:It's easier for me to just read tabs like they already are, plus it looks nicer and saves room. But thanks for the tip!
It wasn't really a tip, lol.
You know what I mean... :nono:
Unless you meant the tip about them not being there anymore.. in which case your reply still makes no sense. :lol:
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dandymcgee wrote:
LeonBlade wrote:
dandymcgee wrote:
LeonBlade wrote:It's easier for me to just read tabs like they already are, plus it looks nicer and saves room. But thanks for the tip!
It wasn't really a tip, lol.
You know what I mean... :nono:
Unless you meant the tip about them not being there anymore.. in which case your reply still makes no sense. :lol:
Oh, I misread his post, I thought that it was still in the flags menu. :lol:
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