SideTab Pro - Vertical Tabs

SideTab Pro - Vertical Tabs

Vertical tabs for chrome in side panel

What is SideTab Pro - Vertical Tabs?
SideTab Pro - Vertical Tabs is a Chrome extension that transforms your tab management experience. It offers a vertical tab layout on the side panel for better visibility and easy workflows. Key features include tab group support, intuitive drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts, and automatic grouping by domain. Improve your productivity with a clutter-free browsing experience that maximizes screen space.
Merlin
Stats
Users: 4,000+
Rating: 4.59 (39)
Version: 2.6 (Last updated: 2024-03-02)
Creation date: 2023-07-05
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • tabGroups
  • sidePanel
  • favicon
  • storage
Size: 165.89K
URLs: Website
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Merlin
Summary

What's new:-

  • New Settings:
    • Compact Vs Detailed View
    • Change Shortcut
    • Change Sides

Key Features:-

  • Vertical Tab Layout in SidePanel
  • Tab Group Support
  • Intuitive Drag and Drop
  • Keyboard Shortcut: Mac:"Command+Shift+P" and PC: "Ctrl+Shift+P". [Override it as per your convenience in chrome extensions settings]
  • Auto Grouping on the basis of domain name.
  • Picks system theme automatically.
  • Left/Right Alignment via Settings > Appearance > Side panel > show on left/right.
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User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • Great idea
  • Sleek design
  • Efficient tab management
  • Color coding and journeys integration
  • Ability to preview title for all open tabs
Cons
  • Takes up too much screen space
  • Difficulty in adjusting font size and spacing
  • Inability to hide top bar tabs
  • Pinned tabs are not displayed well
Most mentioned
  • Ability to hide top bar tabs
  • Adjusting font size and spacing
  • Difficulty in displaying tabs vertically
  • Pinned tabs not displayed properly
  • Takes up too much screen space
Recent reviews
I agree with other reviewers here. The extension is a great idea, but there is so much wasted space. I just took a few measurements: - On my 16" MacBook Pro using slightly larger than default fonts, the side panel itself takes up 35% of the total browser width. That's my start point for how much real estate is lost. - Within the side panel, the unnecessary drop-down at the top to change from SideTab Pro to Reading List etc and the search bar, plus the borders and padding waste 20% both vertically and horizontally. Doing a little geometry here I'm calculating 36% side panel wasted. So to sum up, I'm giving up 35% of my total browser capacity to start, and within that allocated space it is only 64% efficient. I could easily net back a total 10% more total browser side if we had some means to control the layout and sizing better. In Firefox you used to able to user-chrome.css this stuff by hand if you had to (that's what I used to do with side tab pro there). Does Chrome dev really make it impossible to control these UI elements?
by George Mann George Mann, 2024-03-19

Best vertical tab manager so far! A few suggestions: 1. Allow hiding the search box to save more screen space for the tabs. The gears icon currently in the search box can be moved to the pinned tab row. 2. Make the scroll bars dynamic, i.e. only show scroll bars when they are needed, to save more space for the vertical tabs. 3. It would be fantastic if you can provide the ability to narrow down the inner paddings of Chrome's side panel! They are currently too thick. Thanks!
by Junmin Hao Junmin Hao, 2024-03-07

It's amazing! But the theme is ugly af, author could learn some design skills!!
by 王智永 王智永, 2024-02-01
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Safety
Risk impact

SideTab Pro - Vertical Tabs may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

SideTab Pro - Vertical Tabs has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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