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Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by evanb » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 1:59 AM UTC

kryptn wrote: post #300

hardwaresofton wrote: post #238

Wow, this is a fantastic feature that was heavily requested, and HN cannot stop being negative. Great job Mozilla. I was already using the awesome “Simple Tab Groups” extension for this but will look into switching.

I've been liking the new vertical tabs too.

It's so much better than any of the extension-based XUL interface hacks. As soon as they can figure out when to auto-expand the sidebar it will be perfect.

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by cptskippy » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 2:07 AM UTC

throw10920 wrote: post #306

hardwaresofton wrote: post #238

Wow, this is a fantastic feature that was heavily requested, and HN cannot stop being negative. Great job Mozilla. I was already using the awesome “Simple Tab Groups” extension for this but will look into switching.

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Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by throw10920 » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 2:13 AM UTC

evanb wrote: post #321

kryptn wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been liking the new vertical tabs too.

It's so much better than any of the extension-based XUL interface hacks. As soon as they can figure out when to auto-expand the sidebar it will be perfect.

Firefox moved away from XUL extensions years ago - they now use a well-defined WebExtension model that is kind of the opposite of hacky.

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by xk_id » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 2:20 AM UTC

felbane wrote: post #102

Kim_Bruning wrote: post #5

Already using Tree Style Tabs. It's the one critical plugin I need. I still don't understand how anyone works without it.

I wish there were better coupling between TST and STG (Simple Tab Groups). Automatic nesting of TST is great, but sometimes I'd like to just move a whole tree into a named group. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong.

https://github.com/piroor/tst-more-tree-commands gives you folders and a few extra commands (for which you can configure shortcuts, in about:addons - manage extension shortcuts)

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by remram » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 2:23 AM UTC

aucisson_masque wrote: post #288

> Other browsers might send your tab info to the cloud, but Firefox keeps it on your device. Your tabs stay private and never leave your device. I guess it answer my question about having tab groups sync to mobile phone. Maybe in 3 more year..

Still no bookmark tags so don't hold your breath

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by deckplecksetter » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 2:45 AM UTC

Amazing news. This was the one thing keeping me from switching from Chrome to Firefox.

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by methuselah_in » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 3:07 AM UTC

Pls stay revelat and don't die and keep on working against all chrome and stuff. And we hope your financial woes could be taken care of with donations if Google's money no longer dry up. There is no replacement as of now for firefox. And recent issues with your privacy and adds things are not good either when it comes to people which are your users. Mostly we care about our data. Btw nice feature long awaited.

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by Smar » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 3:10 AM UTC

godelski wrote: post #167

dizhn wrote: post #157

What 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 FWIW, I updated and was presented with a new tab announcing this feature. So... update. > Looking at some of the 20 year old bugs that still exist? Looks like browsers are hard https://gbhackers.com/google-to-patch-23-year-old-chrome-bug/

Maybe browsers should be wholly rewritten in Javascript to give a modern refresh ...wait.

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by louky » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 3:17 AM UTC

dredmorbius wrote: post #309

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

What are you using to unload tabs? I've got to confess that my FF memory management is a run-as-needed-or-think-it-should-be-needed shell script which arbitrarily kills the top 10 Firefox processes by memory utilisation. If I'm leaving my desktop for a while I'll run that several times. Tree-style Tabs keeps the slots open, and can reload tabs as needed. I'd really like to have the capacity to unload all tabs other t…

I personally have been using "Auto Tab Discard" for years. It works perfectly for me, and you can set a group of tabs to not unload. It has a ton of options. I have ~320 tabs open right now, for multiple projects and only ~5 are loaded.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by iszomer » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 3:19 AM UTC

kryptn wrote: post #300

hardwaresofton wrote: post #238

Wow, this is a fantastic feature that was heavily requested, and HN cannot stop being negative. Great job Mozilla. I was already using the awesome “Simple Tab Groups” extension for this but will look into switching.

I've been liking the new vertical tabs too.

Not a fan of vertical tabs as truncated titles hurts my fov aesthetics. These days I will just pin the tab when I want to go back to it later but even that has it's limits too.