Finally. Now my thousands of tabs will be hidden behind hundreds of tabs groups!
For real, I already have different groups for tabs, they’re called windows.
But now I will be able to have tabs within groups within windows within desktops!
Fascinating.What about tabs within groups within windows within profiles within desktops?
This is the part I absolutely don’t get about this. Plus windows create a better visual boundary for the context-switch tab groups are supposed to be as you minimize one and restore another.
Why not just use windows? 🤷 I sure hope they keep the implementation of this simple and end up just doing that for the user. Create new tab group -> color-coded new window opens up, gently nudging the user towards how simple the solution to their problem actually is.
Tab groups in chrome are something I dearly miss from chrome. It’s super convenient for grouping projects and quickly switching between them. Multiple windows is a worse experience: there’s no preview favicon or anything to indicate what a window is actually for until you hover over it. With a tab I can see at a glance what something is before I switch.
Every instance of the same program eats memory
I really don’t understand people who don’t close tabs. I start with a fresh browser window multiple times per day.
We start with a fresh browser window multiple times per day too. Except we also have multiple other windows of tabs minimized already.
This reminds me that I once “accidentally” closed about half of those windows - each ~200 tabs - of my then GF. Took her over a month to notice. Tells you all about how useful tab hoarding actually is.
This guy gets it.
You might still need those tabs though. You probably don’t, but you might.
You’re right, I don’t. And since browsers come with this really neat feature called “history”, it’s not like I couldn’t trivially re-open them again as needed.
It’s far easier to have your history cluttered than you might think, and then finding the sites that you need or might need becomes harder.
Exactly. Whereas my 1000+ semi-ordered tabs are way less cluttered.
Yeah but you might forget that you need those tabs. Maaaybe they weren’t that important then, but maybe they are.
I think that “weren’t that important” indeed hints at how I keep/toss stuff IRL, too.
I toss a lot of shit. I don’t keep stuff around for that one hypothetical use case that might crop up in 5 years. Most stuff sells surprisingly well second-hand, and this frees up a lot of money I had otherwise lying around doing fuck all for me.
I don’t have enough time in the day or week or month or year to do everything I want to, so I keep my tabs open until I chip away at them one at a time. It takes a long time, but it doesn’t mean that the tabs aren’t useful to me and won’t remain useful months later.
That’s me with YouTube videos, sometimes I would see a video on recommended that interests me but don’t have time to watch it immediately, I have to open it on a new tab otherwise I would never find it again. Sometimes it takes me days to find the time to watch it.
You can add interested videos to playlist “Watch later” and it will available on all devices with your account
I don’t log in to YT to watch any videos, I alao use Newpipe and Stube sans account. Grouping them in Tabs to get to is great for me.
I very rarely visit that page. I actually have videos there saved from years ago.
Why not just bookmark the tabs? Put them in a folder in your bookmark bar called “To Do” or something and they’d all be right there.
Cuz then I’ll have thousands of bookmarks like I already have now
Here’s the fun part - I already do that. Bookmarks are for ultra-long-term links (1-2+ years minimum), tabs are for short-to-long term links (1 day to 1 year).
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A handy to when it comes to closing tabs: mouse wheel down anywhere on the tab label closed the tab, no need to find the little ‘x’.
Related: mouse wheel down on a link opens that link in a new tab.
I have one tab per email account. A few for github issues I’m waiting to be fixed. One which is some random search I just use as reminder. None of which I have closed in months. I literally have a script to boot them up on my second monitor everytime I boot my pc.
This is unironically the truth.
JUST WHAT I WANTED!
Firefox had tab grouping first. Before Chrome. And then it broke support for it when they did the add-ons overhaul. I’m surprised bringing it back wasn’t a high priority…
Achutucally Opera had it first, back before it ditched Presto.
I remember those days. I was so sad when it went away.
IIRC the old tab groups feature was eventually removed because telemetry showed that only very few people used it…
That’s because us power users know to turn the telemetry off and also have it blocked on our network.
Right, but then you shouldn’t be shocked to find out that a feature was removed because nobody seemed to be using it.
No, I expect Mozilla to know their market and use other means (like focus groups or surveys or something) to figure out which features are actually popular, instead of lazily using a bad metric.
Mozilla knows their market. Because of said telemetry.
How do you think that works? For any other app?
Hint:
(like focus groups or surveys or something)
Not like this. Because they have both shown to be absolutely terrible for this general market preference research.
Did you miss the part of the conversation where folks were pointing out that lots of users turn the telemetry off?
Your reply is as tone-deaf and non-responsive as sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling “nuh uh!” like a toddler.
If you want to be persuasive you’ve got to prove that the telemetry is somehow useful in spite of many users turning it off, and you’ve done absolutely fuck-all to argue that.
You are committing the same mistake as you accuse me of:
many users turning it off
[citation needed] [how many?]
For all you know, maybe the 15 very vocal users in here are the only ones who turn it off. Or do we know that many users do it? How many? 5%? 50%? 95%?
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Watching people use Chrome, fucking nobody uses it there either, except for work situations where on FF, you’re supposed to be using Multi-Account containers anyways.
It didn’t help that they hid the button in the customize menu and made the feature not discoverable.
I used Panorama a lot. Was sad when it went away
I hope Firefox implements a great and robust tab grouping feature. Because they used to have one that worked beautifully.
Firefox used to have Panorama view, which was a way to group tabs with a nice visual interface. …and they removed it because not enough people were using it.
…Well if you stopped removing useful and perfectly functional features, maybe you wouldn’t need to rebuild them later when it turns out people do want that feature, huh, Mozilla?
There’s an extension that reimplements Panorama and it kinda sorta works like it used to.
Your link made my day. Thank you.
THIS, im using n recommend it to everyone
Make sure it works for a few days first. Sometimes extensions that hide tabs from the tab bar can have unforeseen consequences.
Oh that’s pretty neat Is there a way to make panorama view not hide tabs ?
I use Tile Tabs WE for something similar
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/tile-tabs-we/
Took a while to get the hang of it, creating layouts and such
Thank Christ.
Can they also be synced container tabs Mozilla? As in synced across devices. I know there’s a container tabs add on you can get, but it doesn’t sync from my laptop to my desktop to my phone. Would be awesome if they did so natively.
While you’re at it, could you add tree style tabs natively in Firefox? Pretty please, with cream on top.
Container tabs do sync in recent versions of firefox
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/02/06/multi-account-containers-sync/
Hallelujah!
See for yourself, it has almost 3,000 votes now. 👇
lol… some features requests on Android have many more votes and are being ignored by Google… like ad-hoc Wi-Fi
But Android has far more users than FF.
What’s Ad-Hoc WiFi?
it’s direct WiFi connections between clients (no router involved)
Ah, thank you very much.
Please give me vertical tabs to I can switch to FF
Maybe you want to try the Tree Style Tabs or Sideberry extension.
I just use power tabs. gives me vertical, grouping, search, sorting, and some rules behaviour you can do but I don’t use that last part.
There are Extensions to do that if you want.
They require a lot of tinkering for a half-arsed result. Built in vertical tabs like in Vivaldi or edge work and feel much better with just a single setting.
There’s a fork of Firefox which have this feature in built known as Floorp which I personally use.
Coincidentally, they are working on that too
I think its possible with themes
it is, like with this one or various other themes.
Difference with this one is that it doesn’t need an extension like Sidebery
Oh god, yes please. I would love to have that!
I’m glad they decided to bring back this feature. Really missed having it.
This was such an old feature/idea. Cool to see old idea getting new life.
Nice! This is the one thing in other browsers that I wish I had in Firefox.
I recently started using simple tab groups and like it. I just wish there was a way to keep my tabs in groups sync’d across devices. So if I open or close a tab in a group on my desktop, when I go to my laptop that group would be updated with the changes. It doesn’t seem to work that way currently, at least when I tested it out.
This is exciting - after the demise of Panorama I used Quicksavers Tab Groups plugin, then when that died I moved to Simple Tab Groups, which to me is a good enough clone of Panorama. But something more modern would be super nice.
I’ve been using Ungoogled Chromium at work just for the tab grouping. I’ll gladly use Firefox 100% if this is as good.
This is something I’ve wanted on Firefox for a while. Glad to see it’s finally happening!
Promising news. Hopefully Mozilla will start listening to people again.
Come now, let’s not expect miracles.
about time! hoping for built-in vertical tabs some time soon as well 👀
YESSSSSSSSSSSS
