![]() ![]() If just one piece of objective evidence might persuade you, it is the sheer number of different extensions available that implement this function. There are multiple vertical tabs add-ons for Firefox so you can choose based on the features you want There are Chrome add-ons that fake it, but not on all pages, and worse still, they can't hide the built-in horizontal tabs at the top – so instead of saving screen space, you just waste more. We've also read that Brave is experimenting with its own version of the feature, but we haven't tried it. Microsoft's Edge has a pretty good version. Vivaldi can do some of this, although our testing found its vertical tabs don't interoperate well with its new email client. Finally, some add-ons let you search or sort your tabs.The bigger minimum tab size lets the tab show status information for each page.Optionally, you can arrange them hierarchically, grouping related tabs, and hiding, revealing, or bookmarking groups as one.You can have dozens open at once and still read their titles, when horizontal tabs shrink to uninformative icons.They make more efficient use of horizontal screen space, plentiful on modern widescreen displays.Even if you're not used to them, if you do a lot of surfing, you owe it to yourself to try to get used to a vertical tab bar. And of course its boss, Brandon Eich, left Mozilla due his controversial backing of legislation against gay marriage.īut for us at The Reg FOSS desk, the killer feature that Firefox does better than most Chrome-based browsers is vertical tabs. Brave has history for silently rewriting affiliate links, and pocketing the proceeds. The Reg FOSS Desk regards all cryptocurrencies as a Ponzi scheme, and that alone would damn it for us… But there's more. Brave dabbles in cryptocurrencies, and indeed has its own. Browsers based on Google's code also limit what ad blockers can do.īrave's marketing suggests it is the privacy-conscious choice, but we're skeptical. Some of the snags of Chrome and its derivatives, such as Microsoft Edge, are of course that you're handing over your data and your credentials to big, profit-making corporations. However, Chrome's ever-climbing market share suggests that a lot of people don't know how to get the best out of their browser, because there are still quite a few things you can't readily achieve in Chrome that are straightforward in Firefox and its relatives. ![]() There are tons of choices in web browsers, and we're not going to try to persuade you that any particular one is the best. ![]()
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