chat : add opt-in conversation tabs setting

Add a Display setting that turns browser-style conversation tabs on or off,
enabled by default.

Assisted-by: pi

tools/ui/src/lib/constants/settings-keys.constants.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ export const SETTINGS_KEYS = {
 	API_KEY: 'apiKey',
 	AUTO_MIC_ON_EMPTY: 'autoMicOnEmpty',
 	BACKEND_SAMPLING: 'backend_sampling',
+	CONVERSATION_TABS: 'conversationTabs',
 	COPY_TEXT_ATTACHMENTS_AS_PLAIN_TEXT: 'copyTextAttachmentsAsPlainText',
 	CUSTOM_CSS: 'customCss',
 	// PY_INTERPRETER_ENABLED: 'pyInterpreterEnabled',

tools/ui/src/lib/constants/settings.constants.ts

@@ -255,6 +255,13 @@ export const SETTINGS_REGISTRY: SettingsSectionEntry[] = [
 				label: 'Always show sidebar on desktop',
 				type: SettingsFieldType.CHECKBOX
 			},
+			{
+				defaultValue: true,
+				help: 'Show open chats as browser-style tabs above the conversation, one per open chat. When disabled, only one chat is shown at a time.',
+				key: SETTINGS_KEYS.CONVERSATION_TABS,
+				label: 'Conversation tabs',
+				type: SettingsFieldType.CHECKBOX
+			},
 			{
 				defaultValue: false,
 				help: 'Display full raw model identifiers (e.g. "ggml-org/GLM-4.7-Flash-GGUF:Q8_0") instead of parsed names with badges.',