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Thousands of users wanted it, so Firefox delivered it. Tab Groups are now live to help you declutter and stay organized while browsing.

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[-] aeternum 16 points 20 hours ago

whoa. mozilla doing something the people want?? WHAT PARALLEL WORLD IS THIS?

[-] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 9 points 18 hours ago

Don't worry they say they'll shove AI in it so it's definitely our world

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

I'll never understand you people that need like 50 tabs open at once.

[-] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

I have a few use cases:

  1. Many youtube videos that are like 30+ minutes long saved for later
  2. Documentation on some stuff that I need to go back and forth
  3. Movies or games that I found, but don't want to write down and forget
  4. Going down rabbit holes on wikipedia and saving it for another day
  5. Everything else that catches my attention and deserves a honorable spot in the tab bar

Basically, I use my browser as a notebook. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 11 points 21 hours ago

So a shit ton of tabs that never get looked at again? I swear all of you secretly want your tabs to disappear so you have something to complain about.

[-] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Not the slightest! I can perfectly fine live without them, but I would be a little bit sad if they were gone. It happened once after my OneTab extension got somehow corrupted.

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[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Yeah those all seem like great uses of bookmarks and save functions.

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[-] Reisen@sh.itjust.works 71 points 1 day ago
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[-] LMurch@thelemmy.club 6 points 22 hours ago

So now when I open my mom's computer, she see 20 tab groups, I'll know it's even worse than it looks...

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 27 points 1 day ago

live to help you declutter

Me ready to clutter even more 😈

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[-] Termight@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A second browser window is the real solution. Or simply accept the chaos.

[-] Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 9 points 21 hours ago

As if I wasn't already doing that lol I have 64 gigs of ram and I will use 64 gigs of ram!

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[-] muhyb@programming.dev 5 points 20 hours ago
[-] CabbageRelish@midwest.social 2 points 20 hours ago

They added sidebar tabs with this stuff too, doesn’t do a full tree structure and it needs some other work though.

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 12 hours ago

That's nice to see actually. Though Sidebery is much more than sidebar or vertical tabs. It has everything.

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Oh man, thats even more chaos having a new window for a group of tabs.

(Source: thats my daily experience)

[-] jupiter2643@lemmy.ml 58 points 1 day ago

As a librewolf babe, I'm keeping an eye on this: https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/2458

Tab grouping is so useful and something I've always had to resort to extensions for. Good for Firefox for this, can't wait for it to make its way to a browser that doesn't sell users data.

[-] Ery 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hey, you can use tab grouping in Librewolf if you set browser.tabs.groups.enabled to true in about:config

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[-] raptir@mander.xyz 35 points 1 day ago

I'm glad they've added it to desktop, but based on my usage it's more important for me on mobile. Hopefully they bring it to Android soon.

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[-] vegetvs@kbin.earth 26 points 1 day ago

Tab groups have always been there. They're called windows.

[-] spooky2092 24 points 1 day ago

Yeah, no. I'm not trying to keep track of 15 windows when I can make named groups to actually organize the various things I always end up coming back to

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[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 day ago

Can someone at least help me understand what tabs have that bookmarks don’t?

If i have more then 4 tabs open i get anxious because i can’t intuitively remember what each does. I have folders for categories of bookmarks.

[-] TheBeesKnees@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 1 day ago

It's a combination of things... I'm a software developer, so I'll often end up with 20+ tabs open while resolving a problem.

  • I don't want to bookmark them because I don't need them when I finish the task.
  • I can't close the tabs until I'm sure everything's working because Google sucks these days and who knows how hard it'll be to find the source again.
  • Relying on browser history is like finding a needle in a haystack. Tasks can take multiple days and 100 different entries in history.
  • I might have "finished" a task that still needs tested and I know it's a bit shaky; I'll want to move onto a new task but keep the most useful references until I no longer need them.
  • I only bookmark pages that I'll need long-term or multiple times. It's already hard enough to keep those organized...

My tab hoarding has only gotten this bad because search engines are terrible now and the amount of AI garbage to sort through makes finding anything useful a pain in the ass the first time; let alone trying to find it a second time.

[-] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

I have the same workflow. Usually, I never have more than maybe three tabs open, but when I'm debugging something.... oh god. Easily 15 or 20.

I also bookmark extensively, and actually have my address bar set up to only give me suggestions from my bookmarks. Additionally, I use a tiling window manager, which makes managing windows and tabs very easy. I really don't have a use for tab groups, but, who knows, maybe I'll learn to use them someday.

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[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

Relying on browser history is like finding a needle in a haystack.

Oh sweet Satan, yes. I wish somebody could explain to me why browser history is so awful.

[-] Artopal@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago

You need Tab Stash in your life.

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[-] lime@feddit.nu 20 points 1 day ago

if i bookmark something i will never look at it again

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[-] om1k@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

Ever since i switched to zen browser i hace not thought of coming back for a second.

[-] KernelTale@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

I tried it -> couldn't figure out how to get rid off vertical tabs -> uninstalled -> installed Librewolf

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