Google Chrome is testing a big change to tabs

Google’s flagship web browser is getting a new feature that people already love in other browsers – vertical tabs.

The new tab feature is now available for developers as part of the Chrome Canary experimental build, Windows reports. In the developer beta, when you right-click on the tab bar that normally sits horizontally below the URL entry field in Chrome, you’ll now see an option that reads, “Show tabs on the side.” It allows you to arrange your tabs vertically. If you do this, the tabs will appear in the sidebar on the left side of the browser.

Like any developer beta, there will likely be some changes to this feature before it is released to users. And there’s no way to tell when that might happen.

Vertical tabs are a feature that has been available in other browsers, such as Vivaldi, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge, for several years. Chrome users are living behind the times.

The vertical tab interface seems to give you most of the features you want. You can search for tabs, organize them into groups, create new ones, and switch back and forth between vertical and horizontal tabs at will. You can also collapse the sidebar to clear your screen. Although this is just a cosmetic change to a feature that has been around since Chrome’s inception, it’s certainly welcome news among avid tab collectors.

That said, there is another option for managing tabs if you dare.