Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature
Mozilla Firefox should gear up as an excellent option for power users and productivity enthusiasts with this feature.
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.
This 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.
I really don’t understand people who don’t close tabs. I start with a fresh browser window multiple times per day.
A 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 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.
JUST WHAT I WANTED!
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...
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.
It didn’t help that they hid the button in the customize menu and made the feature not discoverable.
I used Panorama a lot. Was sad when it went away
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.
Your link made my day. Thank you.
THIS, im using n recommend it to everyone
Make sure it works for a few days first. Sometimes extensions that hide tabs from the tab bar can have unforeseen consequences.
Oh that's pretty neat Is there a way to make panorama view not hide tabs ?
I use Tile Tabs WE for something similar
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/tile-tabs-we/
Took a while to get the hang of it, creating layouts and such
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/
Hallelujah!
Please give me vertical tabs to I can switch to FF
Maybe you want to try the Tree Style Tabs or Sideberry extension.
I just use power tabs. gives me vertical, grouping, search, sorting, and some rules behaviour you can do but I don't use that last part.
I think its possible with themes
it is, like with this one or various other themes.
Difference with this one is that it doesn't need an extension like Sidebery
Coincidentally, they are working on that too
Just use Tree Style Tab
I feel Sidebery is a more polished spiritual successor to TST.
This is absolutely not a replacement for the tab group experience Chrome and Edge offer
I'm away from my PC so I can't name it but there's another plugin similar to Tree Style Tabs. The creator claims that TST takes up a lot of resources. I do notice Firefox taking a lot of CPU/mem but that's probably my fault. I've tried both and either works well.
Might be talking about Sidebery. I like them both and switch back and forth
I'm glad they decided to bring back this feature. Really missed having it.
This was such an old feature/idea. Cool to see old idea getting new life.
Nice! This is the one thing in other browsers that I wish I had in Firefox.
Tab Stash. Don't need nor will ever need anything else.
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.
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.
I'm using FF tab groups and Sideberry, other than the occasional link getting opened in the wrong group I haven't had issues. I really need to test Chrome and it's profiles to see what the fuss is all about :D
I've been using Ungoogled Chromium at work just for the tab grouping. I'll gladly use Firefox 100% if this is as good.
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.
Promising news. Hopefully Mozilla will start listening to people again.
Come now, let's not expect miracles.
Again?
Let's see how long it takes them this time to take it down again.
This is something I've wanted on Firefox for a while. Glad to see it's finally happening!
about time! hoping for built-in vertical tabs some time soon as well 👀
YESSSSSSSSSSSS
This will be good. When I switch to Firefox in 2019 Chrome had just added tab groups. No extension really replicated hope they felt.
I want workspaces, ideally in a sidebar like in opera. Arc also does workspaces well but Firefox doesn't have to go that far and have the tabs on the side too.
You could check out Sidebery (Firefox addon) (A note: I use it with Floorp, a fork of Firefox built around user control. Floorp link)
Ton of features and very nuanced customization (you can change pretty much all minutia of its UI, which is a huge plus over other stuff I used). Some noteworthy features I like:
There's more, but those are the points that I find the most useful.
Sideberry is great! I discovered it recently after quite a long time of not being satisfied with tree style tab.
I appreciate that it works with Firefox sync.
Btw thanks for the tip about media. That sounds really convenient.
This might do it for you. Not exactly workspaces, but sessions https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/tab-session-manager/
I might finally be able to switch to FF! Yay!
It is not just one feature that makes the browser better. When you switch, you have to take the good with the bad.
This is absolutely THE feature that has kept me away from FF for a long, long time. I like most other stuff about it, but tab groups are a necessity for me. I exclusively use browsers with Tab Groups and Tab Stacking
Different people have different priorities.
It's already a feature available as an addon
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-groups/
Please allow me to not use this. I switched to FF mobile because Chrome forced groups on their users and left no way to turn them off.
Just bring normal tabs back to mobile, please. Tablet Firefox is the worst.
You can actually try them on Firefox Nightly already.
Found it! Thank you!
https://www.reddit.com/r/SamsungDex/comments/1b25u25/firefox_now_with_tabs/
Whut? How? Just updated nightly from the Play Store and don't see anything. If this is the case you are my hero.
I forgot this was a thing. That was awesome.
Replying so you get a notification. See other comments 😉
I have been using the Simple Tab Group extension for quite a while now - imho it has been pretty great. Not sure if this announcement adds anything for me
Simple tab groups emulates a function that used to be built in, but if this tab grouping works like other browsers it will be nothing like the add on.
I assume the benefit would be a better performance, anything else? Simple tab group is pretty feature packed, I’d think FF own would take some time to reach that level.
Makes sense. Clearly a popular feature.
Tab stacking? Can I finally come back to Firefox?
I just use several windows on several virtual desktops. It's much less cluttered.
Those hacks are needed because windows can't handle many things at once.
or multiple windows in tabbed mode (in i3 for example) or use the suckless tabbing thing
Finally!
Chrome's only had this for like four years
Ok. Just let me know when it's available I guess?
As.someone who only used a couple of tabs open and even then upon restart of Firefox only has one tab open, this seems like a feature I wouldn't really use?
You are one of the blessed minimalist ones. I feel most users are drowning in tabs.
Nice! Even IE had a rudimentary version of this feature
Fucking finally!
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.
Are 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.
Default feature about 1% of userbase use, the seventh.
I mean, why not just make it an addon?
Because webextension addons are shit for things like this. Accept that it might have features that real people who aren’t you actually use and enjoy life. Or go use SeaMonkey and live like it’s 1999.
And Firefox had built in tab groups already, for years. The feature was hidden, then they removed them and said “nobody uses this, use an add on” and the addons have always performed worse than when it was built in.
Go fiddle with tab groups in Chrome then try the addons that do it in Firefox.
