Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature : firefox

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Again?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ok. Just let me know when it's available I guess?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Promising news. Hopefully Mozilla will start listening to people again.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Finally!

[–] [email protected] 145 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Firefox had tab grouping first. Before Chrome. And then it broke support for it when they did the add-ons overhaul. I'm surprised bringing it back wasn't a high priority...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

I remember those days. I was so sad when it went away.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

IIRC the old tab groups feature was eventually removed because telemetry showed that only very few people used it...

[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's because us power users know to turn the telemetry off and also have it blocked on our network.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Right, but then you shouldn't be shocked to find out that a feature was removed because nobody seemed to be using it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Nice! Even IE had a rudimentary version of this feature

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

about time! hoping for built-in vertical tabs some time soon as well 👀

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (12 children)

Just use Tree Style Tab

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm away from my PC so I can't name it but there's another plugin similar to Tree Style Tabs. The creator claims that TST takes up a lot of resources. I do notice Firefox taking a lot of CPU/mem but that's probably my fault. I've tried both and either works well.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I feel Sidebery is a more polished spiritual successor to TST.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's interesting, but it wastes to much of the screen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Found the 4:3 fan.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

True, sadly I'm unable to stop using tree style tabs after getting accustomed to it years ago. It's one of those rabbit holes I'm unable to climb out of, similar to modern keyboard layouts.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Please allow me to not use this. I switched to FF mobile because Chrome forced groups on their users and left no way to turn them off.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

This is exciting - after the demise of Panorama I used Quicksavers Tab Groups plugin, then when that died I moved to Simple Tab Groups, which to me is a good enough clone of Panorama. But something more modern would be super nice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Tab stacking? Can I finally come back to Firefox?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Makes sense. Clearly a popular feature.

[+] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Tree Style Tabs user checking in. It’s not hoarding when you are organized.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Grouping tabs just naturally fits so many computer workflows though. I'm often working on multiple things at a time and tab groups help me keep it all organized.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Do this or not people are still going to hoard. Grouping also makes closing easier.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I have my Firefox browser set to clear history, cookie and site data on exit. I never use probably more than 15 at a time. More than 10 is very rare. I don't get people that keep dozens of tabs open. I just you know browse back to what i was looking for. Seems much faster than searching through tons of tabs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Multiple projects that each spawn ten plus tabs. Why in the hell would i want to "remember" some obscure stack overflow link when i can use simple tab groups to keep it there?

And bookmarking something so temporary is also wasteful. Tab groups are a lifesaver IMO.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Good for you, but that's not how most people use their main browser?!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

How do you remember to go back to it if you don't keep it open?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Bookmarks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Because it's important enough to go back to

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

... memory?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Where can one learn this power?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

just download more ram bro

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (4 children)

See for yourself, it has almost 3,000 votes now. 👇

lol... some features requests on Android have many more votes and are being ignored by Google... like ad-hoc Wi-Fi

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[–] [email protected] 203 points 11 months ago (25 children)

Finally. Now my thousands of tabs will be hidden behind hundreds of tabs groups!

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (6 children)

For real, I already have different groups for tabs, they're called windows.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I've been using Ungoogled Chromium at work just for the tab grouping. I'll gladly use Firefox 100% if this is as good.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let me search the multi selecy and select all in bookmarks. Let memove and muktinselect tabs in incognito.

Firefox isnvery behind in their app devlopment.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you... slurring your words?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I switched keyboard apps and everything is slightly different. Including the time the key you select stays on screen and spaces between keys.

Privacy came at a price.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago

Fucking took them long enough

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Nice! This is the one thing in other browsers that I wish I had in Firefox.