Best thing since sliced bread.
Why didn't anyone tell me tree-style vertical tabs were so much better?
vertical tabs... on the right... 
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ConnertheCat
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That seems horrid. But I also usually run with about 4-5 tabs max at any given time.
Since I'm colorblind and don't have the foggiest idea what most favicons actually are supposed to represent or their colors, horizontal tabs are completely unbearable for me, especially when there are many.
I originally hated the idea of vertical tabs, but they're so much better. And they show the whole hierarchy, which tabs came from which others. It makes it really easy to go "Oh, I see I opened all of these tabs in this one group when I was searching for that one thing, and I can close that whole group now at once."
It also makes it super easy to visually group the different topics you're currently searching for, so your shopping could be in one group, your music could be in another, et cetera.
And if you prefer, the button at the top of the column actually allows it to shrink down to just icons without the text, and it expands if you hover. Oh, and you can have it on the left, if you prefer.
My advice would be "Don't knock it til you've tried it."
I tried vertical tabs once, when I decided to try... I think... some version of the Opera browser a while ago. I didn't like it.
If it works for you, it works.
Tree-style tabs aren't quite the same as normal vertical tabs.
They let you see which tabs were opened from another page, so if you've been doing a long search that required searching through several tabs, you can then visually see which ones can safely be closed.
I use a new Chromium browser called Helium which is degoogled and also feature UBO Built-in. Its fast and offers vertical tab. but I guess its Windows only. I quite like them on the right but collapsed to the favicon. We get more pixels in width so it feel logical to put them vertically.