In July, Mozilla released a version of Firefox Nightly in which among his experiments we found the possibility of using chatbots like ChatGPT. The red panda browser didn't seem to care about some features like we see in other browsers like Brave or Vivaldi, but this is apparently changing. The latest version of Firefox Nightly has been available for just a week, and in it we find at least two changes that the company wanted to highlight.
The first of them is the official arrival of the sidebar. In it you can add favorites and other elements, and it can also house the other novelty: the vertical tabs. If you're wondering, you can't get the latter without the first; In order to see the vertical tabs there has to be a place to stand, and there is no better place than the side panel.
Firefox Nightly is now on v131
These new features were highly requested by the community, and Mozilla has responded. According to the company, it is a work in progress, so although Firefox Nightly is now at v131 and the times would say that that version should reach stable in less than two months, its official landing is not confirmed.
For those who want to try it, just download Firefox Nightly from this link, choosing the "Nightly" version, of course, and then launching its executable or installing it as we explain in the related article. Once in v131 of the browser, we go to Settings/Firefox labs and We activate both the “Sidebar” and “Vertical tabs” boxes, at the time of writing this article in English. What we will get will be like what you see in the header screenshot.
On the side panel Buttons will also appear to access history, favorites and settings, and also to the chosen AI if we have it active. The only problem I see with the vertical tabs is the same one I complained about in Zen Broser: If the panel is as it should, that is, narrow or collapsed, to close the tabs we have to right-click and choose the "Close tab" option. I think Mozilla should add an "x" to the icons, at least when hovering. But hey, we are facing something that has to continue improving.
Firefox 131 will arrive in October, and we'll see if it has a side panel and vertical tabs.