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Firefox tab groups are here

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Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by ianwalter »

surajrmal wrote: post #19

Why did it take so long? It was their number one request for 3 years and chrome pushed this feature nearly 5 years ago. The design looks like a straight copy of chrome so it's not like there was a large design process to work out. It feels like it was finally prioritized so that they could "improve" it with ai, similar to what chrome is doing.

Yea crazy how long it took. Zen browser users have been waiting for them to ship this so it can be used in Zen. Of course they announce this the day I switch to Orion.

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by skydhash »

conceptualspace wrote: post #112

one reason tab management is so important is because bookmark management is so bad. ive tried to solve for this with a thumbnail view for bookmarks on the new tab page: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/yet-another-speed-d... it uses open graph images so the previews are more useful on a wider range of pages than simple favicons like the native new tab page. any suggestions or feedback welcome, ama!

Bookmarks are OK. I's just that their purposes largely varies. There's the "pin this" bookmark for sites that are often visited, there's the "save for later" bookmark for things you want to go back to later", and there's the "interesting" bookmark for things you don't need now, but would be too much trouble to find. Maybe some days, I will code an extension for all those uses cases. For now, I put the first in the bookmark toolbar and the others in "Other bookmarks" while occasionally create folders for the last type.

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by eviks »

Glad thousands of users who managed to find their feature voting site pushed Mozilla to do a few baby steps

Though the current interface isn't good - mandatory group names (which also waste space in the precious tab bar by default) and inability to ungroup with a single key (due to naming conflict) - adds too much friction. Also drag&drop to group is too precise, but also can't be disable, so now you can't reliably move tabs around with a mouse without risking triggering the grouping

And, of course, one other top-10 request - to have custom keybinds to group/ungroup - is still too far from the minimum 4500 required to implement it after a few years...

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by saurik »

guerby wrote: post #111

about:config and then set browser.tabs.groups.enabled I'm really puzzled by the UI, you have to drag and drop a tab onto another to create a tab group. This really sucks because now when you want to move a tab you have to be pixel and timing exact to not create a tab group. Most of the time when moving a tab I end up creating a tab group then having to right click and then "ungroup tab" Also you cannot move tab group…

FWIW, that was also my experience when Edge added this feature. It was particularly annoying as I did not ever want to use the feature. I guess Firefox wanted to be bug-for-bug compatible? :(

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by unethical_ban »

derfnugget wrote: post #138

"What happens when 4,500 people ask for the same feature? At Firefox, we build it." What a weird flex. I think if you make >700 million dollars a year you should have someone driving instead of feature farming the comments section.

What a weird way to say they shouldn't listen to their users.

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by guerby »

_Algernon_ wrote: post #124
guerby wrote: post #111

about:config and then set browser.tabs.groups.enabled I'm really puzzled by the UI, you have to drag and drop a tab onto another to create a tab group. This really sucks because now when you want to move a tab you have to be pixel and timing exact to not create a tab group. Most of the time when moving a tab I end up creating a tab group then having to right click and then "ungroup tab" Also you cannot move tab group…

>I'm really puzzled by the UI, you have to drag and drop a tab onto another to create a tab group. You can also use Right Click->Add Tab To Group This is what I use as the pull tabs together is very bad UI. It's to easy to move the tab instead and / or open a new window. Hope this improves with time.

Thanks for the right click, I don't know how I missed it the first time I looked...

Do you know how do you move a tab group once created?

Right click has a menu manage but only option is to create a new window with the tab group. Drag and drop doesn't to work on the tab group (to reorder it vs other groups and tabs).

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by sebastian_z »

Since I do not need it and kept accidentally enabling tab groups I looked for a way to turn it off. You can do so by setting browser.tabs.groups.enabled and browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled to false in about:config.

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by [deleted] »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #36
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 have almost 2000 tabs open. I use sideberry for tab management. > Are people using tabs as a soft bookmark of basically anything interesting? Yep, that's as good a description as any. I have a lot of tabs that I'm not "finished with" in any finite amount of time. Case in point: currently shopping for a steam generator for a steam shower. I have about 30-40 tabs open to different models, stores, reviews, data pages…

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