Firefox tab groups are here

I use Vivaldi which has had excellent support for tab groups (as "Workspaces") for quite a while now.

At work and at home, I always have multiple projects ongoing at the same time. I use one tab group per project. I typically have my notes for that project in the first tab and then other tabs contain documentation, reference material, forum threads, search engine queries, and whatever else that I want OPEN and AVAILABLE while I'm working so that I'm not always wasting time closing and opening tabs that I keep coming back to.

This way, when I switch between projects, I just select the tab group for that project and everything is exactly the way I left it last time. Didn't have to remember to manually save anything beforehand last time, or manually restore a folder of bookmarks or whatever.

Why not use bookmarks? For me, bookmarks are only ever used for links that I go to semi-regularly to regularly. I will NEVER add a bookmark to a site that I visit once, or might want to go back to again, because eventually you have to dedicate time to sorting, cleaning up, reorganizing, deleting them. And I HATE curating things.

Why not use browser history? Because it's full of all kinds of garbage which can hard to sort through and because my browser history only goes back about 6 months. I don't need (or want) to keep my history forever because it just needlessly fills up the disk and becomes a liability if my computer ever gets compromised. And sometimes my projects go longer than that.

It's worth remembering that Firefox HAD tab groups before, just under a different name and then killed it because "nobody used it":

https://medium.com/@twidi/how-i-survived-the-removal-of-pano...

The implementation here is a bit different, I'm sure, but the core idea is the same: Group your tabs however you like and switch between the groups at will.

I use Vivaldi these days (thanks to it's excellent UI customization and "Workspaces" tab groups) so I don't see myself going back to Firefox. Maybe this is a new trend of FF devs actually adding features instead of only removing them. I guess we'll see how long this one lasts.

That's the critical limit. They build it in as a non-removable addon and reenable it every update. Anything more popular is not allowed! /s

If I could assign a bookmark to a container, that would be great.

I don’t like Sidebery and it doesn’t really work for me.

Another thing that annoys me in Firefox is that they recently changed the sidebar. I still use Firefox though.

Rant over.

The tab will also have the context around it (in form of other tabs). When you often switch between various tech stacks/frameworks and open 30 pages of documentation for each one, it's useful to be able to restore all of it easily without messing with bookmarks (that haven't improved in the slightest over the past two decades).