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Re: Firefox tab groups are here

#91

Post by Torwald »

Every Firefox upgrade involving tabs makes me hope they finally debug the tab closing button on macOS. Disappointed again. On macOS the tab close button belongs to the left side, not on the right side. Firefox still gets it wrong.

This is a usability flaw that renders it basically unusable to me. I suspect this oversight stems from too many programmers not having enough understanding about proper application design and development on the Mac. It's a cultural issue then.

But I keep hoping, mainly because other browser vendors get it right. Namely Vivaldi and Opera amongst others.

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

#92

Post by thibran »

canadianwriter wrote: post #3

I never have more than like 10 tabs open at a time, so likely wont be helpful to me, but I find this super interesting! Can someone explain what normal people use so many tabs for? It seems to be super common to have tons and tons open. Are people using tabs as a soft bookmark of basically anything interesting? Afraid to close the page because they wont find it in their history or bookmarks? Is this more an issue wit…

It's not uncommon to work on multiple things over a certain period of time. So I have a bunch of tabs with all the information needed open for every topic. From time to time I close a 'group' of tabs when I'm done. This workflow seems very natural to me.

Using bookmarks would not fit here, because I have no intention to access the tabs in future (e.g. a year from now) again.

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

#93

Post by xnx »

canadianwriter wrote: post #3

I never have more than like 10 tabs open at a time, so likely wont be helpful to me, but I find this super interesting! Can someone explain what normal people use so many tabs for? It seems to be super common to have tons and tons open. Are people using tabs as a soft bookmark of basically anything interesting? Afraid to close the page because they wont find it in their history or bookmarks? Is this more an issue wit…

> Are people using tabs as a soft bookmark of basically anything interesting?

Reading queue. Unfortunately, every app becomes its own sort of todo list: email, browser tabs, social feeds, RSS feed.

Maybe someone will be smart enough to make an AI agent that collects, cleans (ad removal, de-sensationalizing, summarization), and prioritizes information from disparate sources.

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

#94

Post by Arelius »

canadianwriter wrote: post #3

I never have more than like 10 tabs open at a time, so likely wont be helpful to me, but I find this super interesting! Can someone explain what normal people use so many tabs for? It seems to be super common to have tons and tons open. Are people using tabs as a soft bookmark of basically anything interesting? Afraid to close the page because they wont find it in their history or bookmarks? Is this more an issue wit…

I'm actually really curious what the experience is like having not more than 10 tabs at a time, like what thing causes you to close a tab? 10 seems sort of wild to me, it's enough that you are clearly not just monotasking, somehow bounded. Probably in contrast, if you could imagine just forgetting to do that whole closing tabs thing, eventually you have hundreds or thousands of tabs.

Some context, for starters, I have about 10 tabs pinned, discord, 3 slack instances, my fastmail, my gmail, my work mail, spotify, my task list.

Then, there is the things I left open because I am going to read it, a stack of documentation I'm working on. A few random products I'm researching as procrastination. Any search I'm on, and a tree of tabs from different results that I'm working through.

There are the various layers of those things for the things I was working on 30 minutes or a day ago, that I haven't worked back to yet.

And most importantly, there are all the tabs that used to fall in the prior categories, that I just forgot to close, or haven't gotten around to closing yet.

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

#95

Post by rpastuszak »

submeta wrote: post #66

Love Firefox. More than Safari or Chrome. Not only function wise. But also mission wise. Keep up the good work Mozilla.

> But also mission wise

I have bad news for you my friend.

For years, most of (+90%) Mozilla's revenue was ad partnership based*. Recently this has gotten worse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203096

* https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/defaults-matter-dont-assume...

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

#98

Post by xemoka »

sh3rl0ck wrote: post #68

always wanted this, FINALLY. Moving from Arc to Zen, this was the biggest drawback I felt, and now, I'm just waiting for the merge!

Similarly moved from Arc to Zen; hopefully this will allow for multiple windows/views into the same set of tabs? or at least a future possibility.

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

#100

Post by Cshelton »

mostlysimilar wrote: post #46
_fat_santa wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI. Firefox supports vertical tabs natively now.

Tree style is better, it gives you a visual hierarchy of where each tab has come from. Makes Wikipedia rabbit holes more interesting.

Yes, I wish the native vertical tabs gave that same hierarchy. I will keep using Tree Style Tabs until it does.
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