Overview
- Google began a global desktop rollout Tuesday of native vertical tabs and a full‑page reading view in Chrome.
- Users enable vertical tabs by right‑clicking a Chrome window and selecting Show Tabs Vertically, moving tabs into a left sidebar with full titles and tab group support.
- The new reading mode opens from a right‑click on any page under Open in reading mode and turns busy layouts into a clean, text‑only full‑page view with read‑aloud and font and color controls.
- The update is rolling out gradually across Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS, so the options may appear only after your browser updates.
- The additions close a long‑noted gap with browsers like Edge, Firefox and Arc, following earlier availability in Chrome’s Canary builds via experimental flags.