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Tabs and Windows

The sidebar

Tabs down the left, as in Arc, or in a row across the top. Your choice, one key apart.

⇧⌘S⌘S

Yab keeps the same tabs in one of two places: in a row across the top of the window, or in a sidebar down the left. Press ⇧⌘S to move them from one to the other; nothing else about them changes.

What the sidebar holds#

From the top down:

  • The window’s buttons, then back, forward and reload. On a page with an article, a book for reading mode.
  • Your pinned tabs, as a grid of squares.
  • Your kept tabs and folders, then a line, then today’s tabs.
  • At the foot: downloads, extensions and the space you are in. While a tab you aren’t looking at plays music, a small player sits just above it.

Hide it, and bring it back#

⌘S hides the sidebar and gives the page the whole window. Touch the window’s left edge and it comes back over the page as a card; move away and it goes. In full screen it always comes out that way.

Drag its edge to make it wider or narrower, and double-click the edge to put it back. Pull it in past its narrowest and it snaps shut.

Tabs across the top#

On top, your pins lead the row as small squares, then your tabs. Tabs keep their titles while they fit, then shrink to their icons, then the row scrolls. A + shows while the pointer is in the row, and back, forward and reload sit at its far end.

Letters or icons#

Settings › Appearance › Tab icons chooses between each site’s own icon and a letter. With letters, pins show a letter of your choosing and tabs show only their titles.

Tabs in a sidebar, or across the top⇧⌘S
Show or hide the sidebar⌘S