Alas, I upgraded to Chrome 16 today and discovered that the vertical tabs feature was removed. It was always slightly buggy, but it used widescreen real estate so much more effectively than top tabs. And there are no extensions that add the feature back. Sigh.
http://www.techerator.com/2011/11/a-fond-farewell-to-vertical-tabs-in-google-chrome/
I miss vertical tabs too. I don’t think there are enough of us to change Google’s mind, though…
Dave Hoefler – yeah, I saw that extension, but in the screenshots it doesn’t appear save any vertical real estate at all! The top tabs are still there.