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Tree style tabs enables vertical tabs, which are listed at the side of the window rather than the top.

It means you can still read tab titles when you have more than a dozen tabs open. Plus you can nest and rearrange your tabs to fit your work or study.

For some, like me, it's a game changer and I dislike using chrome now because it doesn't support vertical tabs.

Caveat: to disable top-of-window tabs you have to use a user chrome CSS file, so it's not just "install extension, enable checkbox" easy.



> Tree style tabs enables vertical tabs

It's not just vertical tabs (which MS Edge has an option for), it's tree-structured vertical tabs. If you open a link in a new tab, the new tab will become a child of the original tab, making it easy to identify related groups of tabs. The subtrees can be expanded/collapsed. There are a lot of configurable options (e.g., to automatically collapse a subtree when you open a new one).

More info on the extension's page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

As someone pointed out in a sibling comment, Sidebery gives you a similar UI. I haven't used it as much, but it seems to work OK too.


https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery is also good for this, different approach than TST


Minor addition: you have to create a user chrome file AND you have to go into about:config and set "toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets" to true.




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