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Old September 20th 18, 02:35 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default Chrome: is there an extension that puts tabs on multiple lines ...

In message , VanguardLH
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

... like Tab Mix Plus does in Firefox (or did? I'm running an old
Firefox, so don't know if TMP still works on the new one).


Like Firefox 57+ (Quantum), Chrome doesn't let extensions mess with the
chrome of the web browser, and the chrome includes the tabs. Mozilla
(and Google earlier) decided to stop extensions from corrupting or
destabilizing the chrome of their web browsers.

A while ago, there was a Stacked Tabs experimental flag in Chrome where
you could get Chrome to stack tabs rather than shrink them (go to
chrome://flags and search for Stacked Tabs). Google took that away.


)-:

That's what happens with these flags: they're considered experimental,
so new ones can show up and old ones disappear.

Google picked the name Chrome for their project's codename and it stuck
when it got released. All web browsers have a chrome. Google just
decided to use that attribute name for their project name.


A rather unfortunate choice of term - I don't mean for the browser, i
mean for the concept. It's far from obvious what it means - to me, and
I'm sure to many others too.
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In the meantime and if you don't like the TMP-alternative extensions to
manage multiple tabs in Chrome (Tab Outliner, OneTab, TooManyTabs, Tab
Glutton or Tab Menu)


Do any of them do multi-row tabs? (I could try them, but it sounds like
you have, so it's easier to ask you.)

, you could use Shift+Esc to get Chrome's own task
manager from which you can pick which to change its focus. The problem
is Chrome's task manager which mixes together all processes for Chrome,
including those for each tab.

I just tried it; it appears in a small window, sufficiently narrow that
all I can see are the icons for the tabs. OK, I can widen it. (It
doesn't help that the task titles for the tabs all start "Tab:", so I
have to widen it more.) It wasn't obvious how to change focus to one of
them - the only _button_ would kill that task, and clicking on one only
shifted focus in the window; I tried double-clicking, half expecting it
to kill the tab, but it did work. Thanks, but I think it's slower than
just hovering over the tabs to find the one I want (I don't have _that_
many open at the moment - about 32).
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