Joe Maring / Android Authority
One of my favorite web browser trends in recent years has been vertical tabs. Moving your tabs from the top of your browser to the side may not sound like a significant change on paper, but in practice, it makes your browser look so much cleaner and better organized.
While many browsers — such as Edge, Firefox, Arc, and Vivaldi — support vertical tabs, Google Chrome has long been missing from the vertical tab bandwagon. But at long last, that’s finally changing; vertical tabs have arrived in Chrome!
If you’re a Chrome user who has been patiently waiting for the browser to get vertical tabs, here’s how you can use them right now.
Do you prefer vertical or horizontal tabs for your web browser? 8 votes Vertical 38 % Horizontal 63 %
How to enable vertical tabs in Google Chrome
Joe Maring / Android Authority
To get started with vertical tabs in Google Chrome, you’ll need to use either the Beta or Canary version of the browser. Vertical tabs will eventually come to the stable version of Chrome, but it’s currently unknown when that will happen. As such, you’ll need to download Chrome Beta or Chrome Canary if you don’t already have one.
Once you have Chrome Beta or Canary, vertical tabs won’t be available by default. Instead, you first need to manually enable them using a flag. Here’s how. Open Chrome Beta or Chrome Canary. Enter chrome://flags/ into the address bar. In the Search flags search bar, enter vertical tabs. Click the drop-down menu. Select Enabled. Select the Relaunch button at the bottom of the screen.
Now, open Google Chrome again, right-click the area above the address bar, and select Move tabs to the side. You now have a vertical tab menu in Chrome! If the traditional horizontal tab bar is still there, close Chrome, reopen it, and you should only have the vertical tabs now.
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