{"id":10432,"date":"2026-04-09T10:43:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=10432"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:43:33","slug":"chromes-vertical-tabs-feature-is-designed-for-serious-web-surfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=10432","title":{"rendered":"Chrome&#8217;s vertical tabs feature is designed for serious web surfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"content-chunk\">\n<p>The company announced this week that it\u2019s beginning to roll out an option for users to stack their tabs in a panel on the left side of the browser instead of horizontally at the top.<\/p>\n<p>For tab hoarders like me\u2014who get lost in a million tabs while trying to remember which favicon went with which website, or who have multiple websites open with the same favicon\u2014vertical tabs will give us more information to determine which tab is where. It even works when you have so many open that you have to scroll to reach the end.<\/p>\n<p>The vertical tab interface has two modes: a collapsed version with just the favicons, and an expanded version that shows the full text of the page titles too, no matter how many tabs are open at once, unlike in the horizontal view.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"content-chunk\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video autoplay=\"\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/videos\/RJkcXXTW-afS6hazX.mp4\" playsinline=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">[Image: Google]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis layout is perfect for multitasking, saving you time by making sure you never lose a tab,\u201d Chrome product managers Alex Tsu and Jess Carpenter <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products-and-platforms\/products\/chrome\/new-chrome-productivity-features\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote in a blog post<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>To turn on vertical tabs, users can right-click on a window and select \u201cShow Tabs Vertically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chrome is also introducing \u201creading mode\u201d in its latest update, which is a full-page text interface that removes visual distractions. Google is pitching reading mode as a tool for deep focus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91523724\/chrome-vertical-tabs\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company announced this week that it\u2019s beginning to roll out an option for users to stack their tabs in a panel on the left side of the browser instead of horizontally at the top. For tab hoarders like me\u2014who get lost in a million tabs while trying to remember which favicon went with which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brand-spotlights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}