Browser Tab Management

Users critique traditional horizontal browser tabs for issues like scrolling, lack of distinction, and poor organization, while praising and recommending vertical or tree-style tabs via extensions like Tree Style Tabs and Sidebery.

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Sample Comments

purplecats • May 25, 2021 • View on HN

not sure i like the complete separation of the tabs from the rest of the browser. makes it seem disconnected and thus uncorrelated which tab corresponds to what is being rendered.

keeganjw • Dec 7, 2021 • View on HN

Bummer, they didn't add tabs :(

baby • Nov 21, 2017 • View on HN

You should try tree style tabs for a few days

swiley • May 7, 2021 • View on HN

Wasn't this how windows originally did tabs?

marcus_holmes • Apr 9, 2020 • View on HN

isn't this the exact problem that tabs solve?

SAI_Peregrinus • Nov 14, 2017 • View on HN

Try Tree-Style Tabs. It totally replaced tab groups for me, it's far more capable.

sf_rob • Sep 29, 2017 • View on HN

Tree Style Tabs was a recent update, so OP may have missed that.

masukomi • May 21, 2018 • View on HN

i really hate scrolling tabs...

ta988 • Sep 16, 2023 • View on HN

That's impressive. I wish the tabs could be shown side by side.

mhb • Feb 20, 2011 • View on HN

Boy are those ugly with no graphical distinction between tabs.