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Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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And then there's Firefox Focus which has no tabs and no other new instance capability. One single window. "Focus" indeed. It still makes me twitchy, but is so far completely usable. Could do with a "fetch as desktop" mode, though.

How does this work in practice. I frequently have workflows where for example I have the AWS or GCloud console open and in parallel some kind of tutorial, documentation or help page I'm looking at. Would you go back and forth?

Yeah the one major issue is comparison shopping: you can't open multiple tabs/windows and flick between them.

Then again, "focus" might mean reading one review at a time. Or instead waiting until you're at a desktop and remembering to do it. If you forget, are you worse off or better off?

It's just a different situation. Depends on your criteria. Certainly, I've not missed it on my mobile.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Sorry but you got the wrong setting here. To disable autoplay it's media.autoplay.enabled

media.autoplay.enabled toggles whether videos in the current (foreground) tab starts auto playing or not The question was about videos in a background tab, which is controlled by the media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground setting.

Sadly mozilla provides no documentation for those settings, but I can assure you that this setting does not care if the tab is in the foreground or background, autoplay is simply disabled which it seems to me was what was asked here IIANM.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Unfortunately, this extension, too will soon die when Firefox no longer supports legacy addons. I think there is a new Firefox experiment that behaves somewhat like this: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers

IIRC https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups/?s... is a replacement Container tabs is totally different, that's about basically having multiple profiles in one window. E.g you can have the work container logged into your work email and work stuff, and your personal container logged in to your personal email and personal stuff, and they don't know about each other. Like incognito, but persistent and…

Will it work after the legacy addons support is removed? If yes, how can you tell? I couldn't find any related keywords I know on the addon's page.
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