I very much would like this feature as well. But while we don't have it, what I did was assign keyboard shortcuts to change the position of the tab bar. So Ctrl+Up moves the tab bar to the top, Ctrl+Right moves the tab bar to the right, etc. It still requires me to change it manually, but at least saves me from going into Settings and look for the setting to change.
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