Tab cram. If you have a lot of tabs horizontally, they shrink/scroll and you can’t read any captions on them, just icons in the best case. But having tabs vertically helps a lot.
Another reason would be that you can have tabs for your tabs, essentially. If you’ve used something like Sideberry for Firefox (my personal favourite), it has a workspace feature, which means that you can toggle between lists of tabs in your browser.
I’m not that bad of a tab hoarder, but vertical space matters much more than horizontal space, at least for my usage pattern, and having tabs on the side also helps.
BTW, Firefox Nightly have just landed native support for vertical tabs that can be toggled in about:config (for now). Set both sidebar.revamp and sidebar.verticalTabs to true in about:config and you’re golden.
Edit: my dumb ass referenced Zen browser’s vertical tabs under the post about the Zen browser’s vertical tabs
I consider myself fairly left of center and I think we should do something about gun violence, but this is not the way to solve it.
One thing the legislators need to understand is that school shootings are crimes of obsession. A person is so obsessive and delusional about the issue that he’s willing to go into excessive lengths to “make things right”. He’ll find a way to get ahold of a 3D printer.
If we’re talking about gangs though (most shooters don’t have prior felonies to background check on), then they’ll make the thing about money/scale and just get their plastic guns in other states/over the Internet.
Either way, the bill does more harm than good.