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Thank fuck. This is one of the main reasons I can't use Firefox atm, beyond the fact it's also slower than its competitors.
There are various add-ons for this on Firefox so it's never bothered me.
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🎶You put the feature in, you take the feature out, you put the feature in and shake it all about. 🎶
I've been using the Panorama Tab Groups add-on for years, which (as I recall) is pretty similar to the native stuff they inexplicably removed back in the day. It's currently unmaintained and a little janky in spots but perfectly usable.
I use Simple Tab Groups personally. Been working for years. Might be overkill for some though.
Yeah I ran tab groups for years too. I finally quit because I just had too many things open but it was definitely handy.
i started using tree style tabs which was absolutely life changing. best computer memory i've had in years, it's a far more logical and space-friendly way to keep lots of tabs open and still be able to read the titles. i feel like specifically grouping adds too much overhead - i have to think about which group to put each into, and think (even a little bit) about where to find it later
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I'd rather see the kind of tab organization found in Arc browser, but let's take this a decade at a time.
Arc works perfectly for my workflow. Using Firefox since Netscape days, but arc is really good. Don’t love that it is chromium and not open, but the ux is incredible. And air traffic control is such a nice feature.
I love Arc and I won't change, probably even if they charge for it... I wish this wasn't a feature only present in a Chromium derivative because it made my job much more productive and makes the move a bit difficult.
So how is that different from their official addon?
It's nothing like that. The extension you linked is about maintaining separate browser histories and cookie sets, whereas what this post is about is just a new way to organize and manage tabs themselves.
Opera has had this for sooooo long
And is also Chinese spyware
You're Chinese spyware
Hey, hey, hey. I'm not Opera.
About. Fucking. Time.
An option for an additional tab row would be nice as well. I'm not going to use the dev version to get that working (the only way to do so right now with an add-on)
Not the only way, been using the regular firefox version with multirow enabled via css mod applied.
I was led to believe that was not possible.
awesome news, i loved the tab groups back when i was using edge.
Finally. Have made the switch over to Firefox a few months ago and this almost made me switch back. I swap context a lot at work / home so being able to group (and minimize said group) tabs helps a lot.
The Multi-Account Containers extension is great for this. Each container keeps its own context, so you can be logged in to the same service twice (or more) in tabs in one window. Can set it up so that some sites will always use a certain container, or that sites in a container will always use a proxy. That is EXTREMELY useful to me.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
They said nothing about that functionality, but yes it is nice for a completely different use case.
Helpful, but not what I'm looking for personally. I want to be logged into the same account, just have groups of tabs related to different tasks I'm working on. Could be documentation for various frameworks or tooling related to whichever language I'm working on. Chrome had this and it worked great.
I just open a new window and that helps keep things organized well for me, but idk, maybe it's a case of not knowing what I'm missing out on.
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Firefox has profiles, so you can further separate your work browsing from personal browsing. Each profile acts like a separate instance with it's own history, bookmarks, addons, everything...
Is there a button to switch profiles?
No, and everyone keeps recommending extensions and hacky workarounds. Wish Mozilla would gets its head out of its ass and just add a damn button that runs the firefox -p [profile] command in the browser itself so we wouldn't need to use keep a desktop shortcut instead.
They really should just add a button. I usually just type in about:profiles in the address bar and select the profile I'll use.
You can manage profiles from the About Profiles page when Firefox is open. If Firefox won't start or you need certain options, you can also start the Profile Manager when Firefox is closed.
Yeah no. There's a reason why they have a "settings" menu even though we could technically all just edit about:config directly
I remember the first time they ditched it, I didn't get accustomed to the feature because I knew what was coming. Around that time they acted very googley adding and removing features, luckily firefox has become less ADHD.