Google Chrome on desktop is getting two long-awaited features. These include vertical tabs as well as a new immersive reading mode. Both of these features have been available on other browsers for some time, so Chrome is late to the party as usual, but better late than never.
The vertical tabs feature is exactly what it sounds like. All tabs appear in a vertical stack on the side, rather than appearing in a row at the top of the browser. This allows you to view many more tabs at once than would fit in a single horizontal row, and columns can be collapsed to take up less space. This frees up vertical space in the browser, which is useful since most computers have much less vertical space on their widescreen monitors than horizontal space.
The second feature being added is an update to an existing feature called Reading Mode. Reading mode works differently in Chrome, and honestly, weirdly. Instead of opening on top of the current page, as it works on other browsers, it will open in a split view on the side. The new reading mode works as you’d expect, covering the entire screen and covering the entire original page and all of its distractions.
Neither feature was available in the current 147.0.7727.56 build at the time of writing, but it should be implemented in the next few days.
