Horizontal tabs #889
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I am also in for horizontal tabs. Vertical tabs are a cool experiment for me but my brain can't wrap around them as I'm super used to horizontal ones. Just one request I'd have would be to keep the option to use Icon only tabs (so similar to the vertical tabs) without pinning tabs. I think that would help with saving space in an horizontal tab bar too. |
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From the perspective of usage habits, I really need the function of horizontal labels. The function of side and horizontal labels can be developed, and then users can choose by themselves. I hope this function can be developed |
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I thin the best would be is the instead of the URL box taking up a massive amount of space, it can be more streamlined and rest of the space used to display some of the current tabs centred on the active tab with the ability to scroll to both sides if needed.
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Tried side tabs, no thanks, back to LibreWolf |
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What? |
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The absence of horizontal tabs is* a deal breaker for me |
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Horizontal tabs are horrible if you have a small width with your browser, 50% of the width is just tabs... Why wouldn't something like this be optional?! |
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Only some of the most prominent or active tabs need to be added to the horizontal view as per my suggestion. This is a form of quick access than having to go to the side bar when the title bar is open. These little things add up. |
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I'm not saying it's a bad feature, I'm just saying the way i use my browser it doesn't work for me. |
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The maintainer will provide an option to switch to vertical/horizontal tabs. |
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Why not have both at the same time. The horizontal being a more streamlined showing only the most relevant for quick access as the address bar does not need all the space it currently takes. |
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Booo, hiss /s I'm a fan of vertical tabs, but having the option is good. |
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Stumbled over Zen today and want to see horizontal Tabs as well. Thats currently the biggest issue that i have with it. Besides that, its the first Firefox Browser that actually feels good to use and that i consider switching to. Good job. |
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double Horizontal tabs like Vivaldi |
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Ideally this should be configurable. |
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It was installed and then uninstalled in less than 5 minutes. Only because "No horizontal tabs" Vertical tabs are confusing and bad UX for me. If in the future, horizontal tabs are introduced, I'll be more than happy to try it again. |
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Please add horizontal tabs, I cannot use the browser like this. |
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I just switched from brave because MV3 broke Surfingkeys. Zen is an excellent browser, but the vertical tab bar is next to useless. I use Surfingkeys to switch tabs (which brings up its own list of tab titles), so it's not as much of a problem as it is for others, but I'd definitely prefer horizontal tabs. |
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Please. I'm struggling to use Zen when every other browser has the tabs horizontal |
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Hi team, tested Zen and like it a lot -- I'm trying to cope with the vertical tabs but indeed, I reckon, having the possibility to align the tabs horizontally, I'd sure enable the feature -- thanks !!! |
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Horizontal tabs is also a must here. Most screens are landscape and thus you have more room horizontally. Right now there is tons of wasted space in zen with over padded URL / nav area. It's insane that the old firefox I could streamline to a wicked tight setup for my netbook and these days you fight to get anything that isn't some jumbo Duplo block childs toy touch looking UI. UI these days sucks. Back to Waterfox and Palemoon. As a cheeky side note why not be radical with your unneeded paradigm shift UI and make tabs DIAGONAL! :p On a serious note UI where you have to bounce your mouse all over the place is stupid. Tabs with the URL bar makes everything nice, tight and centralized. A UI that makes you mouse top to bottom on one side then left to right elsewhere is just the weird kid trying to convince you he's/she's not weird. |
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Keep the sides clean! Put everything at the top. It works better for websites like youtube/twitch/kick. Browsing a website is less of an issue than browsing a website with video players. The height is always enough, but the width - really - determines the size of the video player. Also many of these websites have sidebars themselves, so it also looks kinda weird having the browsers sidebar next to it, but thats my opinion. So a +1 for me for horizontal tabs. Even better - make it switchable between horizontal and vertical. |
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No horizontal tabs? At all? Well, that was 15 minutes of my time wasted installing and trying a new browser. |
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I’ve been using Zen Browser since its launch and have been eagerly waiting for the introduction of horizontal tabs. While I understand the rationale behind side tabs and their benefits, I believe a unique implementation of horizontal tabs could enhance the browser’s appeal. Many users, including myself, prefer this format. Considering horizontal tabs from a fresh perspective might be advantageous if they’re to be introduced. There seems to be significant demand for this feature, and if Zen Browser aims to compete with other alternatives based on Firefox, horizontal tabs will be crucial. I understand the reluctance to adopt the traditional horizontal tab model. However, we could explore an approach similar to Orion’s compact tabs model, provided it can be easily integrated into the browser. This compromise would respect the established design principles while offering an option for users who prefer horizontal tabs. See the example below from Orion, a WebKit based alternative browser for macOS. Let me know what you think @mauro-balades
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Just deleted zen, using floorp now! Thank you so much! I knew about floorp, but they never advertised this option or I never saw this option anywhere on screenshots or whatever, I'm glad it exist. Until zen gets this exact feature, I'm staying on floorp now. |
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Yeah single bar is more than enough for tabs, urlbar etc. I used to run Firefox on my netbook like this, back before they turned the UI into a touch screen joke. Palemoon can still do this and Waterfox can get close but that's kinda the point. The OLD Firefox you could have URL bar on the bottom or anywhere else. Any UI element could be placed about anywhere allowing slick tight setups with ONLY what you use and none of what you don't. Zen just seems like hipster (de)logic. heh. |
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This is a great layout, As of now the search box takes up a lot of space, we can make it shorter and the rest of the space can be used for tabs. We can make it so the search box expands and floats when we click on it and reverts back to the smaller size when we click off it. This will make things cleaner. |
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This design is super! This is what I had in mind too! |
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yes! Do that! |
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There has to be an option to switch top/side tabs. But no luck so far |
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This browser is cool but looks like complete trash add horizontal tabs please vertical tabs are so garbage |
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People did tried to add horizontal tab, but the issue is Zen is evolving way too fast, so the old PR has become totally obsoleted/unusable. It's still not a good time to add Horizontal tab, because it'll break someday. And just assume you're developer, adding Horizontal Tab will make it so so so hard for Zen to maintain usability, a single change to Compact Mode/Collapsable Tab could break it, and users will riot. |
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It is entirely feasible to support both without breaking one or the other, as Edge and other browsers do. Apply separate logic and styling depending on the user’s choice of tab style. |
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Exactly, if other browsers can do it, why not this one? It's all about intent. |
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Because the core design decision for tabs is vertical for this one. I know people will downvote this again because they WANT this. But then contribute here https://github.com/mmmintdesign/Zen-Mod-Forbidden-Horizontal-Tabs or make your own mod + keep it updated with Zen yourself then. Just adding another option to software will make testing more and more complex and adds more points where the browser can break apart. Just imagine if the maintainer adds / changes something on how the tab bar works currently he will always be required to also check it for horizontal tabs, add fixes here and there, put duct tape on it, yadda yadda. You could now say "yeah this is why he's the maintainer" but he's not obligated to do anything for you. If he would like the browser to use vertical tabs that's his decision and I fully respect it for the reasons above. This browser is really nice, his firefox surfer project is cool and he does this for no money. |
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Thanks, but how do we enable the mod on the latest Twilight build - 1.0.1-a.7 (2024-10-09 at 01:47:36)]? |
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@mauro-balades Sorry for tagging you, just making sure you didn't forget about us (like 90% of your awesome browser userbase) |
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This. There are still more important issues and bugs within Zen itself so it doesn't make sense to burn resources on Horizontal Tabs if someone else can submit it as a mod for example. I think this is the reason why Zen Mods exist in the first place (giving people the option to add/modify Zen to their liking without the core maintainer having to build everything) I was here when this repo had like 4 issues and a few stars. He's trying his best to keep focused on whats important to him. |
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https://github.com/mmmintdesign/Zen-Mod-Forbidden-Horizontal-Tabs Feel free to contribute here and install if you want horizontal tabs. |
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@mauro-balades Can this be put on the official website? That would be very helpful. |
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Official site or docs? I am waiting for arc 2.0 to see how they managed horizontal tabs. Mayyybe then we can consider adding them. But I want to focus on stability first |
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The author or someone need to make PR in Zen theme-store |
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I have passed from a chromium browser and every time that i want to close a tab i always looking for the horizontal tabs. Please bring horizontal tabs... |
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imo, Horizontal Tab option should of been there in the first place. I'd love to switch to it. but while it doesnt have it as an option, or even as a mod at least, I am not switch but rather watching the development and progress with great interest |
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What feature would you like to see?
I would like an option to switch to horizontal tabs.
What platform are you seeing the problem on?
Linux
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~ Created automatically from issue: #158
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