Vertically Listed Tabs chrome extension

What is Vertically Listed Tabs?

Vertically Listed Tabs is a tab manager extension for chrome. it's a free extension and is featured in Productivity, it has 64 active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 5.00 from 5 rated user, last update is 499 days ago.

What’s new in version 0.6.0?

                === Why?

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.

=== Solution

Open and attach a panel ("VLT") window to the left of your normal browser window and inside of it vertically list tabs. 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.

== Synopsis

1. 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.
  - The default (when the VLT window is created) width for the VLT window is saved in browser storage and can be found/set in the extension options.
2. Clicking briefly on the tabs in the extension panel will change the active and focused window to that tab.
3. Clicking and holding for 1 second or more will allow you to drag and rearrange the tabs in the extension panel.
  - Re-ordering the tabs in the VLT window will change the order in the normal tab list.
4. The VLT window can be detached by dragging it away from the main window. This is useful for multiple displays where you want to fullscreen the browser window in one and have the tabs in another.
5. 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.
6. Hovering over the tab's favicon will display a toolbar with buttons to close, group, and pin the tab.
  - Renaming the group must be done from the normal horizontal tab listing for now. We're working to solve this ASAP.

== Release Notes

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.

== 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

Please sponsor me on Github so I can spend more time improving the extension! https://github.com/NorseGaud            

How to install Vertically Listed Tabs?

You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.

Preview of Vertically Listed Tabs

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Reviews of vertically listed tabs:

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Thomas Solomon November 23rd, 2022

Having a separate window to help me organize my open tabs is very useful and a great addition to my chrome browser. I have this plugin downloaded on my work and personal laptop.

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Mike Manfredi November 21st, 2022

This makes _so much more sense_ than tabs across the top that are too small to tell you what's in them. I keep a ridiculous number of tabs open (it's an addiction), so this helps immensely when I got so many tabs I can barely see the icons for each site...

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Michael Ambrose November 16th, 2022

Awesome addition to Chrome! Being able to have a seperate window with my tabs helps me organize my work better. The plugin is simple, clean, & works well.

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