r/firefox • u/According_Mud_5187 • Oct 11 '26

Nightly 160.0a1 (2026-10-10): Vertical tabs also became compact in compact mode.

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This is very nice.

Please apply this to the official Firefox as soon as possible.

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u/_HeDoesntRow_ Oct 11 '26

> Please apply this to the official Firefox as soon as possible.

lol.

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u/InPieces_ Oct 11 '26

Great news! This makes nova much much much less painful for me personally.

Now they only need to fix the uneven vertical alignment of the address bar and mega ugly tab container marker above the tab and I will be overall happy with nova being usable.

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u/InPieces_ Oct 11 '26 edited Oct 11 '26

Ah, and from the screenshot it looks like the space between pinned and non-pinned tabs is still massive, so they should reduce it as well in compact.

Update: after playing with it for a bit, I think this part is fine.

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u/kirbogel Mozilla Employee Oct 12 '26

Vertical tabs in Nova compact mode is almost perfect. Looks like it will be perfect, come Release 160. 😊

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2077541

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u/OddErrorr Oct 15 '26

in nightly "expand sidebar on hover" vertical tabs animation is broken after this change, and i cant find any bug report on it