Vertically Listed Tabs

Description

Before you begin...

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= The Problem

Horizontal tabs at the top of the browser pile up (mostly on smaller screens) and, if there are enough, especially with the same favicon, or even with similar site titles, become painful to search through quickly.

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= The Solution

Open and attach a panel ("VLT") window to the left of your normal browser window and inside of it vertically list tabs, groups, etc. This should allow for large number of tabs to be visible at once and maintain the width of tab titles, increasing visual scanning and targeting speed for a specific tab.

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= Getting Started

1. Install the extension.
2. Click the puzzle piece button in the top right of the browser, exposing the available extensions.
3. Pin the Vertically Listed Tabs extension, which exposes its icon right next to the puzzle piece at the top right.
4. Click on the VLT button (the one next to the puzzle piece). Note: If it's a maximized/fullscreen window, we will downsize the window so the VLT panel can be attached to the left side.
5. In the list, hover over the tab's icon (the small image on the left) to expose the toolbar, allowing closing, grouping, pinning, etc.

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= Features

• The VLT window with vertically listed tabs opens and sits on the left of your browser window and, if you resize it, will automatically adjust. Note: Windows 10/11/etc has an invisible border around browser windows and will look different from macOS and the screenshots I take.
• Right click the extension icon and open Options, allowing you to control Background Color, Default Width, etc.
• Click tabs to focus them in the main window.
• Click, hold for 1 second, and then drag tabs to reorganize.
• Hover over the icon for the tab on the left side to expose a toolbar, including features like Tab Close, Group, Pin, and Pause.
• Groups are color coated!
• Group collapsing and bulk pausing or closing.
• Rename group titles from the VLT window.
• Detach the VLT window from the main window and move it to a different monitor.
• Support for Windows "snap" and MacOS "tile" features, allowing VLT to be shown along side of a full screened Window. Example image: https://i.imgur.com/Nwg2h6z.png
• Unfocusing on the browser to use another app, and then clicking on either the VLT or primary window will bring both the VLT and primary window to front.

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= Release Notes

0.7.2: major rewrite to fix many tag/group dragging bugs.
0.7.1: Fixed some problems with display targeting with maximized mode + added hover tooltips to buttons on toolbar and group row.
0.7.0: Fixed windows bugs. Now if in maximized mode, we'll bring the user out so we can open the VLT. Added Collapse group and close group icons + added some fontawesome icons.
0.6.2: Groups are now colored (can be changed from horizontal tab listing; color changing support will be added later). We also added some better styling for grouped tabs.
0.6.1: Ability to edit group titles from the VLT window.
0.6.0: Full support for dragging groups by their title. Separator at bottom of group allowing users to group new tabs, or just move tab below group. Toolbar when hovering over favicon allowing to quickly group or pin tabs. Full automated testing suite to ensure functionality works before release.
0.5.3: Support for dragging groups by their title + other various bug fixes.
0.4.0: Bug fixes, eliminated flashing, support for tab groups (no dragging yet), and color fixes.

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= Development

The project tracker showing all current pending or in process dev items can be found at https://github.com/users/NorseGaud/projects/1/views/1

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