Reviews for Vertigo Tabs
Vertigo Tabs by Erwan Ameil
14 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by igorlogius, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tech, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vedun, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14214299, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by grahamperrin, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by BillS, 7 years agoI like that "Vertigo Tabs" provides a display of "open Tabs" in the current Firefox window, (the display appears on left side of screen and I can narrow/widen its display field). While I must close the tab at top of screen (a minus), the ability to display ALL open tabs in the current window (even though only perhaps 40 will actually display at a time), helps greatly in knowing what all I've kept open in tabs, (though perhaps it also encourages me in the bad habit of opening TOO MANY tabs). All in all, I consider this, to be one of my MOST valuable Add-Ons.
- Rated 4 out of 5by HIPUNK, 7 years agoNo close button, so 4/5 from me. Finally, a bug free vertical tab bar! Works great with "dom.event.contextmenu.enabled;false" unlike many others.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12670594, 7 years agoIt does what it should.
However, there are some minor thingies it still lacks that would make it perfect:
1. A hover-on X button for closing a tab. Yes, I know about the middle mouse button but I don't like to use it, I've never done so, and I wouldn't like to do so. (No, I'm not a Macintosh user. :-)
2. A "New tab" or a "+" button somewhere, including "Restore recently closed tab". Yes, I know of Ctrl+T and of the History menu but still.
3. Tooltip to see the entire page title that is cut by Vertigo's list.
4. Option to hide the original tab bar. I know there's a pending API issue that'll enable this functionality. Until then it's possible via .css editing. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13445120, 7 years ago
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThat's true, but it doesn't really need one since you can close tabs with middle-clicking on the tab.- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13289695, 7 years agoThis is good, to replace tab mix plus when it goes away. Tax mix had of course tons of options, but to me and others the main thing is simply being able to easily see names of all open tabs which one cannot do by default with a single row of tabs.
However, this addon has the problem that it is too hard to read the names of the tabs, particularly if firefox is restarted and the tabs names for the tabs not having been visited are rendered in a very faint font.
I have had to mess around in chrome files before to fix errors in how firefox grabs style from the environment on linux, so I can probably fix it myself after taking a look at the source (or alter the source), but I think this is a real problem that has to be fixed.
I agree totally that one doesn't want a huge number of options (like eg tab mix plus!) but this faint font is not a "sane default" at all for me! (Makes it unuseable, really) - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13250172, 7 years agoIt's okay, suitable as an immediate replacement for TST.
One thing I'd really like to see implemented: auto-hiding of the sidebar after a couple seconds with it popping back up as I mouse over to the left side. I like to preserve as much screen space as possible. - Rated 4 out of 5by Sonnhy, 7 years agoIt's good yeah, it just lack some features for me, like the close button, the audio button but most importantly a clearer way to divide them, because as of now it's a compact list of an icon and text on his right.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoI'm coming from Tab Tree (and Tree Style Tab before) myself :)
I really like the compact list of Tab Tree, so that's what I wanted to reproduce.
Audio button should be in v0.3, I've implemented the feature.
Tree feature is not yet possible (maybe in a later firefox version? See here for details: https://github.com/idlewan/vertigo-tabs#to-not-do-yet ).
Close button might be good to have, but since I don't use it myself (I only use ctrl-w), I might wait for someone to do a pull request. It would require having an option page, which isn't done for now because not necessary yet.
Have you seen Tab Center Redux (made by another developer)? Maybe it would fit your needs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-center-redux/ - Rated 4 out of 5by draco31.fr, 7 years agoThis is a replacement for Vertical Tabs Reloaded that consumes far less memory, and doesn't slow down Firefox !!!
It still lacks some features, such as the button to "close" a tab, access to the tab menu from the sidebar or hide the horizontal tab bar from Firefox.
But it is fully usable now :-)
NB: Tested on Firefox 54 / Xubuntu 16.04 with 5 windows and more than 135 tabs open.Developer response
posted 7 years agoHiding the horizontal tab bar isn't possible yet for a WebExtension. Here's a workaround for now, add these lines to your chrome/userChrome.css file in your firefox profile folder:
#TabsToolbar {
visibility: collapse;
}
Having a "close" button would be nice-to-have indeed.
As far as I know, you can't rewrite the right-click menu (either you get the "Save Page As", "Select All", "View page source", [...] context menu that web pages get (which isn't useful at all for the sidebar), with the possibiliity to add more context elements to a submenu, or (as I did) you disable it).