Chrome users longing for sidebar tree-style tabs can finally celebrate with the introduction of SideWise Tree Style Tabs, a game-changing extension.
Key Takeaways:
- New Extension: SideWise Tree Style Tabs brings the much-desired tree-style tab functionality to Chrome, mimicking Firefox’s sidebar tabs feature.
- Enhanced Tab Management: Users can organize tabs in a sidebar, grouping child tabs under parent tabs for streamlined navigation and management.
- Advanced Features: The extension includes options to hibernate tabs, wake them up, and re-label them, catering to the needs of power users.
- User Experience: While the extension operates outside the browser window, it offers a close enough experience to Firefox’s built-in feature, despite some initial learning curve regarding tab movement.
- BETA Development: Currently in BETA, SideWise Tree Style Tabs is already a robust solution for Chrome’s tab organization, with potential for future improvements and customization options.
Chrome Tabaholics Rejoice!
If there has been one thing holding back a substantial number of Firefox users from at least experimenting with the Chrome browser…
… it was the lack of sidebar tree-style tabs for Chrome…
Until now!
Introducing! SideWise Tree Style Tabs
This Chrome extension makes it quick and easy to create a similar effect in Chrome!
Now you can view all of your open tabs in the left or right hand sidebar… and tuck child tabs under their parent tab for easy management.
Power users will find the ability to hibernate tabs, wake tabs, and re-label tabs very helpful.
Click here to download SideWise.
Rather than being within the browser confines as Tree Style Tabs for Firefox is (Love that add-on) this extension accomplishes what has previously been impossible by utilizing a docked left-hand sidebar window.
It may take a little getting used to but the similar is close enough.
I found that moving one tab under another… and then trying to move it back out from being under that tab is sometimes fiddly. Meaning it’s kinda fussy and does’t always exactly move around as expected. I’m sure I’ll get used to it’s nuances soon though.
Overall, for being in BETA development (please donate to the developer), its a reasonably mature appearing extension and a blessing for those of us that have been pacing the floor since Chromes launch nearly 2 years ago waiting on this to arrive.
PS: I’d like to see a way added to hide the top-tabs, so the behavior is more like the Firefox option, but I speculate that that is likely not possible from a coding standpoint.