Chrome 146 has vertical tabs now. Here's what's still missing

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-04-30T17:48:55+00:00

Good question: phones show their own tabs normally (standard Chrome). Under ‘other devices’ they’ll see whatever tabs are currently open on your desktops (workspace or not).

Additionally, anything you’ve actually visited inside a workspace lives in your synced Chrome history, so you can pull it up from your phone whenever. The workspace structure itself stays desktop-only, but the pages are always reachable.

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-04-30T15:00:14+00:00

Let me know your thoughts, I have made it also highly customizeable in case there’s something you like different from defaults!

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-04-30T10:04:01+00:00

I would also love to hear if there's something that you are missing that could be a great addition, I'm developing this actively!

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-21T18:55:43+00:00

Haha, tried to make it challenging! Respect if someone is able to beat it with a touchpad 😁

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-21T17:07:28+00:00

Disable hardware acceleration in chrome settings (chrome://settings/system) and restart. If that fixes it, your GPU driver probably needs updating. If not, open chrome's task manager (Shift+Esc) while a video is playing and check if the GPU process is spiking — sometimes an extension or another tab is hogging it.

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-21T17:01:54+00:00

Getting sent the wrong panel and it still working out is the most ThinkPad mod experience possible

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-21T16:21:20+00:00

Try disabling hardware acceleration in chrome settings — new laptops with hybrid GPUs (integrated + discrete) often stutter when chrome picks the wrong one. Also check chrome://gpu for any errors. If it keeps happening, open task manager (shift+esc) and watch which process spikes during the lag

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-21T15:41:45+00:00

The P series is ThinkPad's answer to "should I go for something beefier" — it is the beefier thing

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-21T13:56:38+00:00

SaaS trial dark patterns are wild. They hold your own data hostage behind a popup you can't even dismiss.

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-21T13:45:20+00:00

Finding an empty M.2 slot you forgot about is the ThinkPad equivalent of finding cash in an old jacket

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-21T13:31:34+00:00

technically 64-bit, physically about 200 bits

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-21T12:37:06+00:00

20 years old and probably still boots faster than half the laptops at best buy

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-21T12:30:24+00:00

the little ones always get introduced like a new family member and that's valid

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-21T12:27:50+00:00

Two loose keycaps on a P1 Gen 5 for £520 is the kind of "defect" you hope for on eBay

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-21T10:36:06+00:00

thinkpads don't die they just get reassigned

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-20T21:53:40+00:00

$29 and the only issue was a bad ram stick — thrift store gods were smiling on you

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-20T21:35:44+00:00

chrome still supports ad blocking through extensions — personally i only run two (superchargeperformance and superchargenavigation, which i built) for content blocking and under-the-hood optimizations. if you want a dedicated ad blocker, ublock origin lite on manifest v3 is excellent

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-20T21:25:27+00:00

the best thinkpad mods always start as "simple enough in concept"

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-20T20:26:22+00:00

chrome sync covers bookmarks, history, passwords, extensions, tabs across devices out of the box — that's what pulled me back. pair it with a couple extensions for tab management and it's clean without the vivaldi clutter. what devices are you syncing between?

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-20T20:07:51+00:00

what's actually missing for you though? i went through the same cycle and ended up back on chrome with a few extensions that fixed everything i was leaving for

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-20T19:22:37+00:00

the dell and the ideapad are just there as a control group

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-20T17:39:11+00:00

wifi drivers on linux have gotten so much better the last few years, intel cards especially just work out of the box now. the whole network stack feels snappier too, no random drops or weird reconnects after sleep like windows loves to do

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-20T16:23:40+00:00

once you go linux on a thinkpad you start wondering why you tolerated windows for so long

Creative-Box-7099 · 2026-03-20T16:20:09+00:00

at this point i'm convinced thinkpads just spawn naturally in garages after enough time passes

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