I’ve never understood this. You guys know you can have multiple Firefox windows, right? What’s the point of tab groups when you can just group related tabs in a different window? Between multiple workspaces, multiple monitors, and multiple browser windows, I never feel the need to have more than 5-10 tabs open on any one of them at a time. More than that and I’m clearly doing something wrong and need to clean up anyway.
It’s called the ‘inner platform effect’. They are basically replicating parts of the underlying platform (the OS in this case) inside their own application, until the application turns into a platform itself, one crappier than the one below it. You see this happening with web browsers and ‘web apps’.
Switching between windows is far less fluid than switching between tabs.
Then maybe switch to a better OS / Window manager?
It doesn't matter which one you have.
tabing through multiple windows of the same program is annoying, having one window with groups is way easier. plus 1-2 monitors is the norm, so sometimes its just a screen space issue.
You underestimate the tab hoarders.
I'm also like you where I barely have more than a few tabs open. But I regularly witness people I know fill the tab bar until you can't read the first 3 letters of the title anymore.
So after I save and close a group... where do I find it?
It's in the tab overview menu https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-overview-menu
Mh, I'll check out how it works but if I don't like it I can always stick with
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-groups/
(And obviously 👎 for the inclusion of useless AI bs, would be nice if you can turn that off?)
The AI is local, privacy respecting and optional to use, ~~but I agree a config option to hide the button would be nice~~
Edit: Apparently you can disable the feature
Amg I couldn't figure out how to collapse. I'm so happy rn. I've been containerising everything. It's so soothing.
The lack of groups was the deal breaker for me, so after it rolled out to beta, I finally switched back to Firefox as my primary browser.
Last I tried, I don't think you could reorder or drag/drop groups and selecting multiple tabs doesn't result in "group tabs" in the context menu, but it is still decent enough.
Maybe add some decent vertical tabs too?
What's wrong about it? I really like it.
This was the only thing keeping me on chrome at work. Tab groups are so nice for keeping resources related to specific projects together, especially if you’re juggling several features/fixes at the same time.
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