Unfortunately I can no longer find it. But I still remember being called psychopath and having mental health issues on HN for having a few hundreds tabs opened.
Firefox tab groups are here
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#162i've been using horizontal tree tabs for years, but this looks like a built in native version
maybe they can make it horizontal next
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#163about: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…
With the horizontal tab layout, you can drag-and-drop the group name to move the whole group, same as singular tab. Although the first time I tried it it didn't work, now that I keep trying with different click timing etc it seems reliable - not sure if there's maybe a drag handling bug hiding in there somewhere.
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#164Very frustrating that it's not available in my Firefox yet.
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#165We'll see how this holds up. I currently have nearly 3283 tabs in my primary Firefox window. (The other six windows only have 35-125 tabs at the moment. I sort of use the windows as tab groups.)
To its credit, Firefox is the only browser that does not either slow to a crawl or just fall over dead with that many tabs.
I still need a good tool to merge bookmarks from a bunch of older Firefox profiles, though. Does anyone know of a good tool to do that?
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#166I don't want to rant, but I don't a tiny bit like the UI they have made for tab groups, and I won't use it.
They should have just paid lavishly to the developer of Simple Tab Groups, and incorporate that extension into the master. Fast, cheap and perfect result. Instead they made....this :(
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#167What a roller coaster ride of a post. Great job guys. No mention of whether the feature is available now on a stable release. What release version that is. How to enable it. How to actually use it. Where to go for documentation or bugs. And congratulations on concentrating on the one top feature request. What's next? Looking at some of the 20 year old bugs that still exist?
> No mention of whether the feature is available now on a stable release
> Looking at some of the 20 year old bugs that still exist?
https://gbhackers.com/google-to-patch-23-year-old-chrome-bug/Re: Firefox tab groups are here
#168This is weird to me because like 10 years ago Firefox had something with tabs that I loved, where you could have workspaces and switch between them, then that randomly disappeared. It was called Panorama and that was removed in Firefox 45
There's an extension[1] now that restores the functionality, but the removal is exactly why I'm hesitant to try a new tab organizational tool: the loss of the last one was workflow breaking enough to break trust.
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#169I 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 53 tabs open on Firefox Android. They are a dump of what I'm reading or wish to read or what I want to come back to. Sometimes I send a tab to my desktop using the KDE Connect app. I have Gnome with GS Connect on my Linux laptop. I've got 113 tabs on that machine (about:telemetry#scalars-tab_search=tab). I'm using 5 virtual desktop, 2 for me and one for each of my customers. One Firefox window per desktop (may…
Does it need really that much RAM? RAM you don't use tend to get swapped out, and browsers themselves are pretty good working with a large amount of tabs opened, sometimes by unloading those that are currently unused. Note: swap is good!
I think what kill memory more than having dozens of windows on many desktops is self contained apps and VMs. For example, if you have a browser with 1000 tabs open, you will only have one instance of the engine, and the browser can manage the memory associated with tabs effectively. Now if you have 10 distinct browsers opened with all their dependencies, which can happen if you are running electron apps and you are actually using them, you are going to need a lot of RAM. Also if they all come with their dependencies instead of using what's on the system, you also multiply RAM usage.
Running many instances of the same apps running the same libraries tend to not cost that much, as they only need to be loaded once and are shared. There are a reason we call .so and .dll files shared libraries.
VMs are even worse, as they need a whole fixed chunk of memory that is mostly opaque to the host OS, meaning there isn't much it can do.
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#170Is this feature failing for anyone else? I drag one tab onto another and it just tries moving the tabs, not grouping.
Yes, I updated. After doing so it told me about this feature. No, I also cannot see the tab group creation when right clicking. FF 138.0, Sequoia