Firefox releases tab groups for nightly

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1938187

by jack-bodine • 2 years ago

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AAAAaccountAAAA• 2 years ago

Hopefully they won't make it mandatorily enabled like on Android Chrome.

danpalmer2• 2 years ago

What does it mean for tab groups to be enforced? Is it popping up messages to shame you into sorting your tabs better?

Assuming not, what’s the harm?

sunaookami3• 2 years ago

Have you used Chrome for Android? It's absolutely awful and forced me to switch to another browser. All tabs are opened in a tab group, sometimes they will open a new tab group. Very confusing behaviour. The desktop implementation is good though.

sunaookami3• 2 years ago

It can also be enabled in Firefox Beta with "browser.tabs.groups.enabled" but it's still a bit buggy there. Ironically, Firefox was the first browser to have tab groups with Firefox 4 until they removed it because "nobody used it".

Paianni• 2 years ago

Opera 11 (Dec 2010) had 'tab stacking'.

sunaookami3• 2 years ago

Didn't knew that, interesting! Really miss the old Opera.

ksec• 2 years ago

with Firefox 4 until they removed it because "nobody used it".

Tab Groups remains a good idea on paper but no one has done a useful implementation of it. I remember during the Firefox 4 Tab Group era I purposed that Tabs from site ( Say HN ) and any Tabs opened from that site, for example I have another tab from this submitted links bugzilla.mozilla.org. All To be moved together into a tab group instead of just moving site to a tab group.

It was rejected for whatever reason.

Cpoll• 2 years ago

This sounds a bit like an extension that nests tabs in a tree structure (I can't remember the name).

coffeeling3• 2 years ago

Huh? I use tab groups heavily in Brave. They're very useful, even if they're not nestable.

CrimsonRain• 2 years ago

Try edge

hcs• 2 years ago

It's still a bit buggy in Nightly, it seems, over the last few days I keep triggering it on accident.

wlesieutre• 2 years ago

Exciting! Firefox used to support tab groups and removed them in 2016 because they weren’t used enough.

Now that Safari has them, I guess there’s pressure to have feature parity?

infensus• 2 years ago

They took the most upvoted ideas from the community forum and started implementing them. Maybe to win some users over, but I think it might be too late for this to have any impact on market share.

I'm also kinda disappointed they just copied the UI from Chrome instead of releasing a refreshed version of the previous implementation. Old Firefox tab groups were like Safari tab groups (or "workspaces" in Edge, Vivaldi, Zen and maybe others), and I think they are way better for organisation. Yeah, STG extension still exists, but having it built-in would be nice.

siva7• 2 years ago

The chrome implementation is way better than of Safari. I don't use the Safari tab groups because they lack features like pinned groups which i need to find it useful.

imcritic• 2 years ago

I want tab groups in Chromium :-(

coffeeling3• 2 years ago

Chromium has had tab groups for ages, both on desktop and mobile.

e40• 2 years ago

How long does it take to get from nightly to release?

throwaway74354• 2 years ago

Firefox 135 is expected to be released on February 4.

glandium• 2 years ago

This specific change will not automatically make progress from nightly to release. Specifically, this is enabling tab groups by default in nightly only, for however long it will take for the feature to be stabilized.

johnea• 2 years ago

A word was left out of the title: Again... Firefox releases tab groups

Tabs (including all kinds of groupings and UIs) were the best when they were dealt with in NPAPI plugins.

Mozilla foundation has been screwing them up ever since.

Of course, always for the betterment of humanity, totally not just because goggle told them to...

wtallis• 2 years ago

Were there ever NPAPI plugins to manage tabs, or are you getting that confused with XUL extensions?

AbuAssar• 2 years ago

I use tab groups all the time in safari, and I used an extension to have them in firefox as well.

This feature is a must for me

maxvisser• 2 years ago

I rather have something like arc does where you can anchor tabs on the sidebar as bookmarks. It feels a lot less chaotic.

jay_kyburz• 2 years ago

Or, you know, just use bookmarks.

AzzyHN• 2 years ago

I could've sworn Firefox already had tab groups, though I may be thinking of container tabs...

DanitaBaires• 2 years ago

Oh god. I hope that doesn't break the plugin I use (can't remember because I'm away from the computer), the one I had to install when they phased out the "panorama" feature.

Firefox releases tab groups for nightly

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