Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature : firefox

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 203 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Finally. Now my thousands of tabs will be hidden behind hundreds of tabs groups!

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 42 points 8 months ago (4 children)

For real, I already have different groups for tabs, they're called windows.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

But now I will be able to have tabs within groups within windows within desktops!

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 10 points 8 months ago

Hmm Fascinating.

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[–] ignism@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I really don’t understand people who don’t close tabs. I start with a fresh browser window multiple times per day.

[–] Lag@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

We start with a fresh browser window multiple times per day too. Except we also have multiple other windows of tabs minimized already.

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[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 13 points 8 months ago (5 children)

You might still need those tabs though. You probably don't, but you might.

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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

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.

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[–] nycki@lemmy.world 145 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

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...

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago

Achutucally Opera had it first, back before it ditched Presto.

[–] theedqueen@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

I remember those days. I was so sad when it went away.

[–] MrOtherGuy@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

IIRC the old tab groups feature was eventually removed because telemetry showed that only very few people used it...

[–] burrito@sh.itjust.works 53 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's because us power users know to turn the telemetry off and also have it blocked on our network.

[–] MrOtherGuy@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Right, but then you shouldn't be shocked to find out that a feature was removed because nobody seemed to be using it.

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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

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.

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[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 54 points 8 months ago

Fucking took them long enough

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 51 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Laristal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 8 months ago

Container tabs do sync in recent versions of firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/02/06/multi-account-containers-sync/

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[–] authed@lemmy.ml 27 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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

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[–] M0ty@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Please give me vertical tabs to I can switch to FF

[–] 0xCAFE@feddit.de 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you want to try the Tree Style Tabs or Sideberry extension.

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[–] sag@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There are Extensions to do that if you want.

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[+] parpol@programming.dev 20 points 8 months ago (18 children)

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[–] dditty@lemm.ee 36 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Grouping tabs just naturally fits so many computer workflows though. I'm often working on multiple things at a time and tab groups help me keep it all organized.

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 15 points 8 months ago

Do this or not people are still going to hoard. Grouping also makes closing easier.

[–] nezbyte@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Tree Style Tabs user checking in. It’s not hoarding when you are organized.

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[–] sajran@lemmy.ml 19 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Oh god, yes please. I would love to have that!

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[–] eksb@programming.dev 15 points 8 months ago (13 children)

Just use Tree Style Tab

[–] footox@lemmy.one 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I feel Sidebery is a more polished spiritual successor to TST.

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[–] Vertelleus@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's interesting, but it wastes to much of the screen.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

True, sadly I'm unable to stop using tree style tabs after getting accustomed to it years ago. It's one of those rabbit holes I'm unable to climb out of, similar to modern keyboard layouts.

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Don't be sad. I'd say you're doing it right! Vertical space is much more limited than horizontal on 21st century monitors, and tabs are wide, not tall. Tree tab UI enables semantic layout (showing you practically unlimited levels of nesting), plus they always give you consistent room to read page titles. Why should the usability of tabs decrease as you open more of them?

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[–] Popsip@pawb.social 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm glad they decided to bring back this feature. Really missed having it.

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[–] emb@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Nice! This is the one thing in other browsers that I wish I had in Firefox.

[–] actual_patience@programming.dev 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Tab Stash. Don't need nor will ever need anything else.

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[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 9 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] black_hole@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

I've been using Ungoogled Chromium at work just for the tab grouping. I'll gladly use Firefox 100% if this is as good.

[–] Kostyeah@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is what has been keeping me on chromium for my study partition. I would love to use Firefox, but I need to group tabs by class. Once Firefox implements this I'll be able to drop google products completely.

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[–] bappity@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

about time! hoping for built-in vertical tabs some time soon as well 👀

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