Back in January this year, we covered news that Google was finally adding vertical tabs to Chrome, bringing it to parity with alternatives like Edge, Brave, Firefox, and more.
At the time, the feature was limited to Chrome Beta. That is officially changing now.
The tech giant today signaled the official arrival of vertical tabs, which means you no longer need to enable flags to be able to try out the feature.
Ensure you’re running the latest Chrome version. To check if the feature has rolled out to you, click on any Chrome window and select “Show Tabs Vertically.”
This should force all of your open tabs to move to a new left-aligned layout. The main advantage here is that you can read full page titles within tabs, allowing you to manage them with ease. “This layout is perfect for multitasking, saving you time by making sure you never lose a tab,” wrote the tech giant.
Right-clicking anywhere in the vertical layout will highlight a “Show tabs at the top” button, which reverts Chrome to the original horizontal tab layout.
Reading Mode gets an immersive look too
Elsewhere, alongside vertical tabs, Google officially announced another Chrome feature today. Google Chrome’s built-in Reading Mode, which essentially presents a webpage’s written content as simple text with all other distracting elements removed, is getting a new full-page interface.
Although not explicitly mentioned, it looks like the full-screen UI will be Reading Mode’s default. Users will likely then be able to resize the window according to their needs.
Both of the features seem to be rolling out in phases. I don’t have access to either as of writing, even with the latest Chrome 146.
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