Overview
- Google began rolling out the desktop update on Tuesday, bringing vertical tabs and a full-page reading view to Chrome.
- Users can enable vertical tabs by right‑clicking a Chrome window and selecting Show Tabs Vertically.
- The new sidebar shows full page titles and supports tab groups, and it can collapse to favicons to save space.
- Reading mode now opens as a clean, distraction‑free page that strips visual clutter, with text‑to‑speech and display tweaks reported by multiple outlets.
- The features are arriving globally in phases, and the move follows earlier tests and competition from browsers like Edge, Firefox, Safari, Arc, Vivaldi, and Brave.