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[–] Sina@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

This is not even close to the worst thing they have ever done, but stuff like this is a waste of resources. People mostly want official vertical tabs and more than anything engine performance improvements. (and the ability to pretend to be Chrome in Youtube)

[–] Olifant@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Here I'm still waiting for an official vertical tabs feature.

[–] ouch@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Please work on tab grouping instead!

[–] PhreakyByNature@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago

It was useful 8 years ago when they removed it, that’s for sure.

[–] kryllic@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Or vertical icon-only tabs!

[–] denast@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think many people in the comments suffer from some version of curse of knowledge.

Sure, this feature us quite irrelevant for a power user who is quick to navigate the browser and needs a split second to remember what tab it is simply by reading the header and seeing the icon.

However, many less proficient people can benefit from this feature. Not once I saw how someone who has 10 tabs open and needs to go to a different webpage, starts meticulously clicking through every single one of them because they have no idea how the page they are looking for is called, they are too overwhelmed by using web as a whole to take notice.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

I don't understand how someone can have 10 or more tabs open. The times when I have "many" tabs open is when I'm looking for references while doing art, and that still hardly ever surpasses 5 tabs! XD