Great to see this feature, and it looks smooth and easy to use. I'm left wondering whether it will sync across devices and notably also to FF on Android?
Firefox tab groups are here
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#392These HN threads with people that have 20K tabs living for years are so wild! I guess I'm the only savage in the world who closes my browser window and quits the browser application whenever I'm done with my computer for the day. I occasionally use tabs to temporarily have one or two web pages open at a time, usually because I need to browse/compare both of them actively, but when I'm not actively reading a page, I s…
I use the profile manager and have dedicated (and isolated) profiles for some sticky web apps that I need to keep open through a work shift, e.g. Slack and G-Suite. My G-Suite one might even have a dozen tabs that I'll have it keep and restore on restart, holding documents that are part of a weeks or months long project. The Slack one would just be one tab per Slack org at the times when I've had to juggle a few, as I found that easier than using the Slack UI's internal way of switching orgs.
I guess it's my old school way to have isolated containers for these 1st party sites I am forced to use. I'll even cut and paste 3rd party URLs from those back into a general profile, rather than browse off to other content from those "apps".
In the general browsing profile, I don't really leave anything logged in or open in tabs for more than an hour or two, often much less. When I get up to take a break, I generally have exited the browser too. So, I may close it tens of times per day, and have it set to clear history and cookies on exit.
It's partly my defiant personality wanting to throw a monkeywrench into the tracking and personalization miasma. But it is also just more comfortable for my mind to be coming back to a cleanly reset workspace than some sedimentary remains of the past.
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#393firefox keeps on give after shedding a couple months ago.
the shakeup from google not been able to give them money anymore seems to have done good for the project.
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#394I 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 used to use groups heavily as i have the work flow of research -> pause -> maybe work on something else to clear my mind -> implementation.
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#395Apparently, they've also released a new profile manager that's finally simpler than the clunky earlier one. This is the last feature I really need for my workflow to completely ditch Chrome. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management
Hooray, it only took them ...a decade or so?
The weird thing is that Firefox has been quick at developing and introducing some features while others did not land for a very long time. If their aim is gaining more Chrome users, I hope a gap analysis was done as well as feature prioritization
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#396Apparently, they've also released a new profile manager that's finally simpler than the clunky earlier one. This is the last feature I really need for my workflow to completely ditch Chrome. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management
It's great this is finally seeing some love! There seems to be some limitations in Firefox 138 that leaves it feeling like it's landed a bit short: - Missing the context menu "Open in " on URLs or pages. There's often links I want to open in different profile, and I've missed this option from Chrome. - Existing about:profile profiles aren't importable, other than the initial profile. It looks like adding other profil…
Well, at least it's a start. It can only get better. The important bit was getting the new profile management skeleton in a stable shape. Hopefully everything else will follow. It's only a bit infuriating that they do gradual rollout :-(
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#397Wow, 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.
> Wow, this is a fantastic feature that was heavily requested, and HN cannot stop being negative.
You’re just experiencing (and by commenting on it, being part of) the contrarian dynamic.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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#398Earlier quoted context omitted.
>mandatory group names I'm on 137.0.2 and I just made a nameless tab group just fine. Real estate of a square.
When you combine tabs, focus shifts to an input field, requiring extra action to dismiss or accept. That's the friction, even if you type nothing. Also in horizontal tab layout every square matters
>that's the friction
It seems to be entirely preferential. If you prefer naming tabs it's extra friction to access the input field. Options are always nice, but you will rarely cover 100% user cases on a first release.
>every square matters
If you want zero real estate, you close the tab, optionally bookmarking it.
I don't know if some 5 pixel strip really helps anyone. that sounds like functionality deferred more towards a minor extention.
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#399Already using Tree Style Tabs. It's the one critical plugin I need. I still don't understand how anyone works without it.
And with some chrome.css changes you can make the sidebar hide until the mouse hovers over it.
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#400Honestly, no matter what fancy UI features they add, until they add WebSerial and WebUSB, Firefox is not a replacement for anything Chromium based for me. I have a lot of devices that use all that, and I don't want to constantly deal with switching browsers or making standalone wrappers so that I can use them.
But Firefox devs have a strong "we know whats good for you" mentality and refuse to add it.