There were a few key reasons for my wanting to move from Firefox to Google Chrome but the ONLY, I repeat ONLY, reason I finally gave up on Firefox and moved to Google Chrome was because there was at least some form of vertical tab sidebar option in Chrome, albeit crippled compared to tree-style-tabs.
That is... until now.
Chrome updated and now there is no possibility for this tab sidebar. And I for the life of me cannot understand why they are so fucking against having vertical sidebar tabs.
WHAT is the logical argument for it? WHAT?! If you sill live in the 90s and only keep one or a couple tabs open at all times and just love going forward and back and reloading pages, then yes, having a few tabs at the top is more efficient. But if you have a lot of tabs open it SAVES space to have a vertical tab bar. Why? because tabs are wider than high, so you can fit more tabs in the space and have them be readable before you need to resort to scrolling. On the top, you have to shorten the tabs to fit more in and have to use the scroll buttons sooner. To top that off, most screens these days are wide-screen so it's just a better use of screen real-estate; most web-pages are NOT wide screen so there is unused space unless you love to zoom or have gigantic fonts.
I think that because tabs started out on top and are therefore the norm, they are just being lazy pricks and don't want to rock the boat or put in the extra effort on behalf of the mass of us that use a lot of tabs and therefore NEED this vertical tabs on the side.
Maybe they think that we shouldn't have many tabs open ever. Or rather that we should go back to going forwards and backward ad nauseum. There are many useful and valid reasons to have a lot of tabs open. I'm not even talking 35 tabs of memory and resource gobbing youtube videos, I'm talking about normal use and even for work. Example. I often have to look up python modules and it is helpful for me to have a bunch of the ones I'm using open in their own tabs and at my fingertips and NOT have to constantly go forward and backward and search and research and load and reload. And when I'm doing a normal search I like to tab-open the links so I can compare pages and not have to back-button to the list of pages.
Come on!! WTF, man?
