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.
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.
You might still need those tabs though. You probably don't, but you might.
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.
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.
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.
Fucking took them long enough
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.
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/
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
Just use Tree Style Tab
It's interesting, but it wastes to much of the screen.
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.
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?
Oh god, yes please. I would love to have that!
I'm glad they decided to bring back this feature. Really missed having it.
Nice! This is the one thing in other browsers that I wish I had in Firefox.
Promising news. Hopefully Mozilla will start listening to people again.
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.
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