Bug 166085

Summary: Tabs on left/right side
Product: [Applications] konqueror Reporter: Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component: generalAssignee: Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: bugs.kde.org, graeme
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: Firefox with tabs on left side.

Description Dotan Cohen 2008-07-08 20:49:40 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.0.83)

Widescreen laptops lack vertical space, yet have an abundance of horizontal space. Putting tabs on the left/right sides of Konqueror will use the useless horizontal space yet free up valuable vertical space.
Comment 1 Dotan Cohen 2008-07-08 20:53:04 UTC
Created attachment 25954 [details]
Firefox with tabs on left side.

In this screenshot of Firefox with the tabs on the side and the KDE.org webpage
open, it can be seen that even with the tabs on the side there is horizontal
space unused in most webpages. Vertical space, however, is valuable (especially
on widescreen monitors).
Comment 2 Dotan Cohen 2008-08-17 11:24:37 UTC
It should be noted that the newest Opera builds support vertical tabs (tabs on the side) out of the box.
Comment 3 Graeme Pietersz 2010-01-01 10:42:01 UTC
Please consider this. It the key reason that Firefox remains my main browser: nothing handles large numbers of tabs open at once as well as FF + tree style tabs (my typical usage is something like 20 tabs on 15 sites open).

I really want more than mere putting tabs on the left though. A * collapsible tree* of tabs (as provided by the Firefox extension) on the left is the most productive (i.e. in terms of finding the tab one wants to move to quickly) solution.
Comment 4 Dotan Cohen 2010-01-01 14:27:55 UTC
> A * collapsible tree* of tabs (as provided by the Firefox extension) on
> the left is the most productive (i.e. in terms of finding the tab one
> wants to move to quickly) solution.

Graeme is referring to this extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890

I agree 100%. This is probably the most productivity-enhancing software that I have installed besides Kontact. This is a must feature for any web browser!
Comment 5 Erik Quaeghebeur 2023-11-12 12:35:03 UTC
While the other bugreport is younger, it is where the activity is, so closing this one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 205276 ***