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Firefox releases tab groups for nightly

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Re: Firefox releases tab groups for nightly

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post #8

It can also be enabled in Firefox Beta with "browser.tabs.groups.enabled" but it's still a bit buggy there. Ironically, Firefox was the first browser to have tab groups with Firefox 4 until they removed it because "nobody used it".

Opera 11 (Dec 2010) had 'tab stacking'.

Didn't knew that, interesting! Really miss the old Opera.

Re: Firefox releases tab groups for nightly

#13

It can also be enabled in Firefox Beta with "browser.tabs.groups.enabled" but it's still a bit buggy there. Ironically, Firefox was the first browser to have tab groups with Firefox 4 until they removed it because "nobody used it".

>with Firefox 4 until they removed it because "nobody used it".

Tab Groups remains a good idea on paper but no one has done a useful implementation of it. I remember during the Firefox 4 Tab Group era I purposed that Tabs from site ( Say HN ) and any Tabs opened from that site, for example I have another tab from this submitted links bugzilla.mozilla.org. All To be moved together into a tab group instead of just moving site to a tab group.

It was rejected for whatever reason.

Re: Firefox releases tab groups for nightly

#14
post #13

It can also be enabled in Firefox Beta with "browser.tabs.groups.enabled" but it's still a bit buggy there. Ironically, Firefox was the first browser to have tab groups with Firefox 4 until they removed it because "nobody used it".

>with Firefox 4 until they removed it because "nobody used it". Tab Groups remains a good idea on paper but no one has done a useful implementation of it. I remember during the Firefox 4 Tab Group era I purposed that Tabs from site ( Say HN ) and any Tabs opened from that site, for example I have another tab from this submitted links bugzilla.mozilla.org. All To be moved together into a tab group instead of just movi…

This sounds a bit like an extension that nests tabs in a tree structure (I can't remember the name).

Re: Firefox releases tab groups for nightly

#15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does it mean for tab groups to be enforced? Is it popping up messages to shame you into sorting your tabs better? Assuming not, what’s the harm?

Have you used Chrome for Android? It's absolutely awful and forced me to switch to another browser. All tabs are opened in a tab group, sometimes they will open a new tab group. Very confusing behaviour. The desktop implementation is good though.

>All tabs are opened in a tab group, sometimes they will open a new tab group. Very confusing behaviour.

So I'm not the only one. I never figured out why sometimes tabs open in an existing group, and sometimes in a new group. Curious to find the spec which explains the behavior...

Re: Firefox releases tab groups for nightly

#16
post #13

It can also be enabled in Firefox Beta with "browser.tabs.groups.enabled" but it's still a bit buggy there. Ironically, Firefox was the first browser to have tab groups with Firefox 4 until they removed it because "nobody used it".

>with Firefox 4 until they removed it because "nobody used it". Tab Groups remains a good idea on paper but no one has done a useful implementation of it. I remember during the Firefox 4 Tab Group era I purposed that Tabs from site ( Say HN ) and any Tabs opened from that site, for example I have another tab from this submitted links bugzilla.mozilla.org. All To be moved together into a tab group instead of just movi…

Huh? I use tab groups heavily in Brave. They're very useful, even if they're not nestable.

Re: Firefox releases tab groups for nightly

#17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does it mean for tab groups to be enforced? Is it popping up messages to shame you into sorting your tabs better? Assuming not, what’s the harm?

Have you used Chrome for Android? It's absolutely awful and forced me to switch to another browser. All tabs are opened in a tab group, sometimes they will open a new tab group. Very confusing behaviour. The desktop implementation is good though.

Brave has a setting to enable/disable the feature, idk if standard Chrome has it.

Re: Firefox releases tab groups for nightly

#19
post #14
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>with Firefox 4 until they removed it because "nobody used it". Tab Groups remains a good idea on paper but no one has done a useful implementation of it. I remember during the Firefox 4 Tab Group era I purposed that Tabs from site ( Say HN ) and any Tabs opened from that site, for example I have another tab from this submitted links bugzilla.mozilla.org. All To be moved together into a tab group instead of just movi…

This sounds a bit like an extension that nests tabs in a tree structure (I can't remember the name).

Tree Style Tabs?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

Re: Firefox releases tab groups for nightly

#20

It can also be enabled in Firefox Beta with "browser.tabs.groups.enabled" but it's still a bit buggy there. Ironically, Firefox was the first browser to have tab groups with Firefox 4 until they removed it because "nobody used it".

It's still a bit buggy in Nightly, it seems, over the last few days I keep triggering it on accident.
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