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Vertical browser tabs are better and you should use them

TechnologyApril 7, 2026
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Vertical browser tabs are better and you should use them
Google's Chrome browser is getting a couple of new features, both of them extremely welcome and wildly overdue. The first is a reading mode, which does what it already does in most other browsers: str
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A screenshot of Google Chrome, with vertical tabs, on a blue background. Just look at all that vertical space. | Image: Google

Google's Chrome browser is getting a couple of new features, both of them extremely welcome and wildly overdue. The first is a reading mode, which does what it already does in most other browsers: strip out a lot of website cruft to make pages easier to read. Reading mode is good, you should use it, a lot of websites are bad. The second feature is the big one: vertical tabs. Instead of having all your tabs in a row across the top of your browser, you can now right-click on the tab bar and select "Show Tabs Vertically" to have them appear in a sidebar instead.

Vertical tabs are hardly a new idea about browsers - even the original Chrome team …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Source: The Verge

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