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Earlier this year, Chromium browser engineers began submitting code to develop a vertical tab feature. This capability has now reached the Chrome Canary build for testing, though it remains unclear whether it is part of an A/B experiment. After installing Chrome Canary, Landian.net reported that the feature did not appear, nor were any related experimental flags visible.
According to tests conducted by Windows Report, the vertical tab option is already accessible. At this stage, Google’s implementation appears rudimentary—functional, but still rough around the edges—suggesting that subsequent builds will undergo continual refinement to improve the experience.
In testing, Chrome’s vertical tabs behave similarly to those in Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox. Users can right-click any open tab and select the vertical tabs option, after which the row of tabs typically displayed across the top shifts to a vertically aligned list on the left side of the browser window.
The existing tab search feature is likewise relocated to the upper-left corner. Users may click the button and enter keywords to find specific tabs. Other capabilities—creating tab groups, renaming groups, and more—remain available, though the current UI is noticeably unpolished.
Chrome Canary users can update to the latest build to see whether the feature is enabled for them. The newest Canary version is now 144.0, which indicates that vertical tabs will require at least three more months before reaching the stable release of Chrome.
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