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Google Brings Vertical Tabs and Improved Reading Mode to Chrome
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When I got my Mac first of all, I thought I would give safari a try, but the layout put me off and some sites I use just did not work correctly.
I’ve had a chance to try it out. It works really well especially in combination with tab groups. If you are the type who uses a LOT of tabs (I am) this is a big improvement. There is some retraining of muscle memory though.
Lost Hills
macrumors regular
I didn't either, I ended up going to chrome://flags and enabled it. It works after that
Safari needs to adapt and have true vertical tabs. Horizontal tabs are horrible these days. By its very nature, vertical tabs scales infinitely. When I get to around 10 tabs in Safari, the tab text starts getting cut off and I have trouble finding my tabs. Get to around 20 tabs and you are only seeing an icon or even worse.
jennyp
macrumors 6502a
Oh yes - I see. Thanks. But do you have to go back to that to undo it again. Seems a faff.
Update: ah - I see that if you right-click on just the right place (takes a bit of finding), there's an option to "Show tabs horizontally" again.
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Dirk Pieters
macrumors 6502a
You know you can change the default browser, right? “Default browser for most” does not make it holy.
HouseLannister
macrumors 68040
No article mentioning a build number. Updated my Mac and Windows machine yesterday and not seeing this option. Maybe it is a rolling thing and not part of a specific version of Chrome?
Siriosys
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What took them so long!
Chrome’s previous attempts at a “reading panel” left an awful lot to be desired from an accessibility perspective and made me realise how very few companies design products and/or services with accessibility features baked in.
I’m fully aware that the total number of users who rely on accessibility features are small in number, by quite a significant margin, but with an ever-increasing aging population, we’re likely to see (no pun intended) more and more people come to rely on these features.
As a visually impaired user myself, I’m reliant on many of the assistive-tech features Apple are well known for and I hope that Google, Microsoft, and the major Linux Distros continue to learn from and emulate what Apple have done to make the products and services truly accessible.
Chrome’s previous attempts at a “reading panel” left an awful lot to be desired from an accessibility perspective and made me realise how very few companies design products and/or services with accessibility features baked in.
I’m fully aware that the total number of users who rely on accessibility features are small in number, by quite a significant margin, but with an ever-increasing aging population, we’re likely to see (no pun intended) more and more people come to rely on these features.
As a visually impaired user myself, I’m reliant on many of the assistive-tech features Apple are well known for and I hope that Google, Microsoft, and the major Linux Distros continue to learn from and emulate what Apple have done to make the products and services truly accessible.
burgman
macrumors 68040
Trusting Apple is a whole lot of trust us and marketing. Especially in the App Store until 2024 with starting Privacy Manifests from developers. .
CarlJ
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For what it's worth, there's the ability in Safari to show a scrollable grid of all open tabs for the window - click the Tab Overview button in the upper right corner (two overlapping squares), or, on a Mac, hit Cmd-Shift-\. If you go up to the top of the list, there's a search bar where you can search for text in the page titles of all the open pages, and it does an incremental search (removing non-matching tabs from the display as each character is entered).
Because we have wide screens and horizontal tabs are hard to read. And no doubt other reason. Oh, there's already a lot of information at the top of the window.
transpo1
macrumors 68000
I’ll take it! Better than Google, for whom we are the product.
Apparently, Google uses the honor system, requiring devs to fill out forms on what data they collect. Apple’s privacy manifest system has more controls in place. At least, that’s according to Gemini ;-)
I recommend the Yandex browser from Russia. Based on Chromium. Available on many platforms.
It's basically what Chrome should be without the Google bloat and questionable design choices.
It's basically what Chrome should be without the Google bloat and questionable design choices.
Firefox stopped being good some time ago. Mozilla Foundation scandal etc.
If you're using Linux, Firefox is usually the default 'bundled' choice in your distro, probably because the Linux devs are FOSS fanatics.
Technologies change rapidly and this move is a good adaptation. Monitor real estate gets much larger/wider these days, having vertical tabs makes a lot more sense.