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Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 8 months ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Again?

[–] Zacryon@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago

Let's see how long it takes them this time to take it down again.

[–] bappity@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

about time! hoping for built-in vertical tabs some time soon as well 👀

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[–] Vacknick@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

This is something I've wanted on Firefox for a while. Glad to see it's finally happening!

[–] obsolete@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Promising news. Hopefully Mozilla will start listening to people again.

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[–] GreatRam@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] fishbone@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You could check out Sidebery (Firefox addon) (A note: I use it with Floorp, a fork of Firefox built around user control. Floorp link)

github

addons.mozilla

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:

Vertical tab bar with collapsible parent/child tabs
Tab Grouping, which seems to be functionally the same as workspaces
Unload or refresh tabs or groups en masse easily
Customizable new tab buttons. ie: you can have "new tab", "new private (or other container) tab", and "new lemmy.world tab" all at once.
Customizable movement of tabs to specific Tab Groups based on domain and/or container. ie: I have a "Media" tab group, and I set it up so any domain from youtube.com or dropout.tv automatically get moved from other tab groups over to "Media"

There's more, but those are the points that I find the most useful.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 8 months ago

This will be good. When I switch to Firefox in 2019 Chrome had just added tab groups. No extension really replicated hope they felt.

[–] sherlockholmez@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago (10 children)

I might finally be able to switch to FF! Yay!

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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Just bring normal tabs back to mobile, please. Tablet Firefox is the worst.

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[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

Makes sense. Clearly a popular feature.

[–] pheet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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