How to Enable Side Tabs on Google Chrome

by Dinu on 25/06/2010



Would like to have tabs on left side, on Google Chrome ? Well, you can do that, with a small line of code as of now, and probably without it soon when its added to the browser.

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Right Click on the Chrome icon on your Desktop
Select “Properties”
In “Target” box, add the following line of code at the end
–enable-vertical-tabs

Restart chrome.
Right click on any tab, and select “Use Side Tabs”

Now you have all your tabs on the sidebar, right click on the tab again and uncheck “Use Side Tabs” to bring your tabs back to the default style, in case you did not like it ;)

ps: Thanks 1PAEz, for this tip !! for quite sometime now, we have many blog posts that came as tips from readers, guest posts by readers etc, thanks for all your love people !!!!

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Brian Lang June 25, 2010 at 4:12 am

Can it be done on the Mac?

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chrome story June 25, 2010 at 4:21 am

should be, but I do not have access to a Mac machine to try it, sorry .. will let you know if I find the answer !

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Paul Irish July 8, 2010 at 12:29 pm

Go into Terminal and use this command:

/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome –enable-vertical-tabs

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chrome story July 8, 2010 at 12:58 pm

thank you !

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zoe b. July 28, 2010 at 4:23 pm

Thanks so much for that.

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chrome story July 28, 2010 at 8:18 pm

you are welcome !

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Greg June 25, 2010 at 5:12 pm

This doesn’t *quite* work on v5.0.375.86 Beta :P

http://screencast.com/t/NzQxZmY0

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chrome story June 26, 2010 at 5:13 am

well, its a feature under development, lets hope to get things fixed soon,

try changing the theme to default, and see if it fixes that non-alignment issue ?

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Rune Svendsen July 9, 2010 at 5:25 pm

Would be cool if it worked on Linux as well. Currently it doesn’t as far as I can tell (version 6.0.453.1).

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chrome story July 9, 2010 at 10:09 pm

hopefully it will be added soon !

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James November 25, 2010 at 9:42 pm

This doesn’t seem to work in version 7 (stable).

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chrome story November 25, 2010 at 9:53 pm

you need to enable it from the about:flags page

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James November 26, 2010 at 12:15 am

Oh, that’s a dev feature then.

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chrome story November 26, 2010 at 12:27 am

yes, but next version should have it, I hope .. in stable !

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