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Firefox releases tab groups for nightly
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Re: Firefox releases tab groups for nightly
#22A word was left out of the title: Again... Firefox releases tab groups
Tabs (including all kinds of groupings and UIs) were the best when they were dealt with in NPAPI plugins.
Mozilla foundation has been screwing them up ever since.
Of course, always for the betterment of humanity, totally not just because goggle told them to...
Re: Firefox releases tab groups for nightly
#23Exciting! Firefox used to support tab groups and removed them in 2016 because they weren’t used enough. Now that Safari has them, I guess there’s pressure to have feature parity?
They took the most upvoted ideas from the community forum and started implementing them. Maybe to win some users over, but I think it might be too late for this to have any impact on market share.
I'm also kinda disappointed they just copied the UI from Chrome instead of releasing a refreshed version of the previous implementation. Old Firefox tab groups were like Safari tab groups (or "workspaces" in Edge, Vivaldi, Zen and maybe others), and I think they are way better for organisation. Yeah, STG extension still exists, but having it built-in would be nice.
Re: Firefox releases tab groups for nightly
#24Earlier 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.
When clicking or using "open in new tab" from the long press menu (not "open in new tab in group")?
Re: Firefox releases tab groups for nightly
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Both TST and Sidebery are leagues ahead of tab groups IMHO. Frankly sidebar tabs just work better for 16:9 aspect ratio because with a maximized window most sites don't make good use of 1/4 of the width anyway.
Re: Firefox releases tab groups for nightly
#26How long does it take to get from nightly to release?
This specific change will not automatically make progress from nightly to release. Specifically, this is enabling tab groups by default in nightly only, for however long it will take for the feature to be stabilized.
Re: Firefox releases tab groups for nightly
#27It 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…
Try edge
Re: Firefox releases tab groups for nightly
#28I use tab groups all the time in safari, and I used an extension to have them in firefox as well.
This feature is a must for me
Re: Firefox releases tab groups for nightly
#29Earlier 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.
Yeah, it completely ruins the ability to switch to another tab: instead of the tab-switching screen having 6 tab previews, there are now 6 tab group previews with a single tab in each, and those previews are tiny, they are a quarter of the tab preview size. And closing a tab group is, again, more difficult than closing a tab because it has a ... instead of x at the top right corner.
Re: Firefox releases tab groups for nightly
#30A word was left out of the title: Again... Firefox releases tab groups Tabs (including all kinds of groupings and UIs) were the best when they were dealt with in NPAPI plugins. Mozilla foundation has been screwing them up ever since. Of course, always for the betterment of humanity, totally not just because goggle told them to...
Were there ever NPAPI plugins to manage tabs, or are you getting that confused with XUL extensions?