- Firefox Nightly 131 introduces vertical tabs and an improved sidebar, enhancing tab management and multitasking for users with many open tabs.
- The vertical tabs feature, similar to Microsoft Edge, keeps tabs organized on the left-hand side and can be customized via Firefox Labs settings.
- Additional features include AI chatbot integration in the sidebar and ongoing development of tab grouping and profile management tools.
Looking forward to this one. I use vertical tabs on Edge at work and it’s very useful on wide screens.
Hope they remembered to add a bottom to collapse/expand the tab bar.
Now we only need tab groups and we’ll be all set.
I feel like I heard something about tab groups in nightly a while back? I’m using a tab group extension but it’s not the same.
I remember using vertical tabs in Opera back in the day and feeling like a king. Can’t wait to test this out
yeah i heard about tab groups too, idk how thats going (i dont use nightly, though i really should)
Oh, does this replace Tree Style Tabs?
I don’t quite see the lure of vertical tabs.
Nowadays most websites leaves half of your horizontal space empty on high resolution monitors, so you have a lot of unused real estate. Verticals tabs can also fit in more tabs while showing tab title and can implement features like collapsible tabs.
Additional features include AI chatbot integration
That’s why I was against the AI integration for the image text-summary in the PDF. I knew Mozilla would not stop there and integrate more AI tools into the browser. As much as I love Firefox, as a user from version 1 days, this AI integration without an option to turn it off is a reason to switch… But I didn’t found an alternative yet (I’m well aware of all the browsers).
I think it can be disabled, in the screenshot from the articles there is a “AI chatbots” toggle
I used the wrong word. I meant it can’t be uninstalled (like an addon). It’s just part of the browser. If this was an optional addon for people to uninstall or replace if they want, it would be fine. It’s not the first time Mozilla did that, even outside of Firefox too.
It’s on my list. One of my criteria is, it has to be in the official repository for Archlinux. And Mullvad-Browser, like many of the other Firefox based browsers, are not.
Do we have tab groups yet?
