{"items": [{"author": "Ivan", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/101147004225363019038", "anchor": "gp-1320862004855", "service": "gp", "text": "they are, however, not very useful for people like me, who deliberately minimize their open tab count for the sake of minimizing distractions.  if i kept open any significant proportion of the interesting things i read, i would barely get anything done.  it's already bad enough with the eight-or-so effective limit on open tabs imposed by the horizontal layout.  closing one tab reveals more interesting reading in a previously opened tab that leads to yet more interesting tabs to open.  so i tend to close most tabs long before i'm done thoroughly exploring them.  with this habit in place, vertical tabs waste much more space than horizontal ones, since i can easily use the extra horizontal space to view other applications alongside my web browser--usually applications that help me focus on my original task, unlike most of the tabs i open.\n<br>\n<br>\nbut if i could freeze time while browsing the web, i'd be all over tree tabs.", "timestamp": 1320862004}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/179941852094028?comment_id=179973002090913", "anchor": "fb-179973002090913", "service": "fb", "text": "That looks great, especially for the new Gmail and Gcalendar redesigns that waste a ton of vertical space.", "timestamp": "1320862342"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/179941852094028?comment_id=179976672090546", "anchor": "fb-179976672090546", "service": "fb", "text": "@Michael: I think you can tell gmail/gcal to use a more condensed layout (settings &gt; display density &gt; compact)", "timestamp": "1320862829"}, {"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/179941852094028?comment_id=179996378755242", "anchor": "fb-179996378755242", "service": "fb", "text": "ooh.  I want this, but Firefox was too much of a resource hog and too unstable for me.  Chrome gives me better performance and better control (I can find the flash process and kill it without bringing down the whole browser)...but I sure would like this on Chrome.", "timestamp": "1320865481"}, {"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112947709146257842066", "anchor": "gp-1320883723680", "service": "gp", "text": "Is the implication that this is never coming to Chrome? =(", "timestamp": 1320883723}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1320894155826", "service": "gp", "text": "@Todd\n Chrome tried it out as an experimental option, but abandoned it recently.  I hope they eventually introduce it as a \"radical improvement\", and \"the next stage of browser development\", perhaps on by default, but until then I'm back on firefox.", "timestamp": 1320894155}]}