dantheclammanMozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature
embNice! This is the one thing in other browsers that I wish I had in Firefox.
Fucking took them long enough
Let me search the multi selecy and select all in bookmarks. Let memove and muktinselect tabs in incognito.
Firefox isnvery behind in their app devlopment.
shnizmuffinAre you… slurring your words?
I switched keyboard apps and everything is slightly different. Including the time the key you select stays on screen and spaces between keys.
Privacy came at a price.
I’ve been using Ungoogled Chromium at work just for the tab grouping. I’ll gladly use Firefox 100% if this is as good.
Altima NEOFinally. Now my thousands of tabs will be hidden behind hundreds of tabs groups!
CorganaFor 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?
Carighan MaconarThis 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.
NorthWestWindEvery instance of the same program eats memory
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.
kratoz29JUST WHAT I WANTED!
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.
AkasazhA 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 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.
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 very rarely visit that page. I actually have videos there saved from years ago.
we is doomed!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.
JackbyDevI only have this behavior on mobile. Idk why
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).
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.
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.
So we’re just going to enable these people with tab hoarding issues?
mynamesnotrickI have my Firefox browser set to clear history, cookie and site data on exit. I never use probably more than 15 at a time. More than 10 is very rare. I don’t get people that keep dozens of tabs open. I just you know browse back to what i was looking for. Seems much faster than searching through tons of tabs.
How do you remember to go back to it if you don’t keep it open?
Bappity… memory?
Where can one learn this power?
just download more ram bro
Because it’s important enough to go back to
Bookmarks
Good for you, but that’s not how most people use their main browser?!
Multiple projects that each spawn ten plus tabs. Why in the hell would i want to “remember” some obscure stack overflow link when i can use simple tab groups to keep it there?
And bookmarking something so temporary is also wasteful. Tab groups are a lifesaver IMO.
I have my Firefox browser set to clear history, cookie and site data on exit.
Might as well just have your whole PC set to reset to a naked installation on each reboot, tbh.
Finally, someone who uses their browser like me! I keep my Firefox the same, and with containers, I still stay logged in, but don’t have to worry about cookies being left over.
Like you, I’ve never understood how people can handle having 10+ tabs open at once. I have my YouTube tab always up and ready to go, and the rest of the time it is a tab to search, open the link in new tab, and so on and so on. It gives me anxiety looking at the mess that some people have on their browsers! It’s the equivalent of having your entire desktop filled with shortcuts and folders!
Don’t get me wrong, I know more than my normal 5 tabs can be needed at times, I’ll put my own reasons below. But every single day? Closing the browser and having it load more than 5-10 tabs again every single time? No wonder people complain about Firefox being slow, their browsing habits cause it! 😂
The most tabs I’ve ever had open was only to download multiple mods off of nexus that looked cool back before they made Collections a god send. Now I don’t have to do that any more. 😁
Dennis Croskey@LucidNightmare @mynamesnotrick When I read about different browsers and they spend half the article talking about tab groups and tab islands and tab this and tab that, my eyes glaze over. I do not understand how it's that big a deal. Maybe I'm not a "power user."
I love having features, that’s fine with me, but when their biggest “draws” are the tabs thing, then I am with you. Like, okay? How is the extension support? What does their privacy features look like? What does it do that makes my browsing more pleasant? Oh, just tabs tabs and more tabs…? Next!
Wow, thanks. Yeah, I was surprised to see the comments saying the way we browse is abnormal lol… Maybe it’s just how our brain works but I know for me, I am hyper focused on what I am doing in that moment and my thoughts are always shifting but keeping my browser only with what I am actively using is just something I’ve always done. For example, right now this is the only tab I have open. :). I need to utilize containers more… Really, what I want is something that would open containers automatically for specified sites and not have to choose manually to open in.
Cheers and thanks for the comment.
You can set containers to open every time you go to the website!
For example, I have a YouTube container, and every time I open YouTube, it opens in the container even if it was in a Nexus Mods container or anything like that. Once you have a website in view that you want to always open in a specific container, you can click at the very right side of the address/search bar, and it is an icon just like the containers icon. It says Always Open in or something like that. I hope that helps you streamline your containers! 😁
AatubeDo this or not people are still going to hoard. Grouping also makes closing easier.
ddittyGrouping 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.