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Thousands of users wanted it, so Firefox delivered it. Tab Groups are now live to help you declutter and stay organized while browsing.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

I'll never understand you people that need like 50 tabs open at once.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I have a few use cases:

  1. Many youtube videos that are like 30+ minutes long saved for later
  2. Documentation on some stuff that I need to go back and forth
  3. Movies or games that I found, but don't want to write down and forget
  4. Going down rabbit holes on wikipedia and saving it for another day
  5. Everything else that catches my attention and deserves a honorable spot in the tab bar

Basically, I use my browser as a notebook. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

So a shit ton of tabs that never get looked at again? I swear all of you secretly want your tabs to disappear so you have something to complain about.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Not the slightest! I can perfectly fine live without them, but I would be a little bit sad if they were gone. It happened once after my OneTab extension got somehow corrupted.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah those all seem like great uses of bookmarks and save functions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Bookmarks are only for the stuff I will always need again. Tabs just for the stuff I haven't finished yet and don't want to forget about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Buddy have I got some news for you. You can actually delete bookmarks when you're done with them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

RIGHT

So why’s it hard to explain why they’re not the same… 🤔

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I will do my good deed of the month. You seem like a prime candidate for Tab Stash. Does the same but better than Tab Groups. Check it out. You might like it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-stash/

Let me know, love it or hate it. Cheers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Hey, this looks like a better OneTab that I always wanted!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Is there some way this could work on android?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Tab Stash is great, yes. That's the answer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Nah, just 200 or more

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I have a colleague who even saves all his tabs using a plugin, just in case he will need them at some point.

I dont know, I never have problems finding what I need so dont need to save anything.

Tab groups are great though, I need them so I can have groups with our aws accounts at work. That way i can just quickly get in to any account.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Sometimes I ended up with +50 tabs because I just don't close them. But when the computer restart and Firefox ask me to restore them or start a new session, I always go for a new session. And I never felt that I lost something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

I closed my tabs with the window automatically

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I used to never close tabs and they would accumulate as I kept doing more web searches and other activities. Now when I need to do stuff I usually open a new window instead for different tasks and if I need to free up RAM then I start closing other windows for tasks I'm not doing anymore so it closes all of the related tabs at the same time