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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] 83 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

As a librewolf babe, I'm keeping an eye on this: https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/2458

Tab grouping is so useful and something I've always had to resort to extensions for. Good for Firefox for this, can't wait for it to make its way to a browser that doesn't sell users data.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Hey, you can use tab grouping in Librewolf if you set browser.tabs.groups.enabled to true in about:config

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for this!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

By now you would've expected someone to have pointed out what code is actually collecting that data that's supposedly sold.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm glad they've added it to desktop, but based on my usage it's more important for me on mobile. Hopefully they bring it to Android soon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

A million times this. But now the backend is done, hopefully mobile isn't that far off.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago (34 children)

Why people like 50 tabs at once. I can't understand.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago

Neither can we.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I used to feel the same way. But recently, I just don't have time to 'finish' each tab/section. When I was younger with more time, I could.

For example, the first section of my browser is several self hosted apps I'm currently implementing. So, I don't want to lose the relevant forum posts/documentation.

The second section is some articles I couldn't finish reading.

The third section is something I'm researching for my work.

Fourth are media tabs, some YouTube videos I haven't finished, a music tab, etc etc

So basically, if I had time to read the articles, one section closed. Or finished my implementation, etc.

The hard part this is this is every week. Always new projects, work or personal. Always new studies to read. Always new vids. You get the point.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Heres a neat easter egg: If you open enough tabs on firefox mobile the number in the tab icon changes to an infinity icon

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Agile and task reprioritization at work.

Too many projects to work on at home.

Games.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

At work I’ll have like 20+ tabs open and I eventually am like F it, close everything and start over. Usually feels good.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

live to help you declutter

Me ready to clutter even more 😈

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Right??! So instead of clutter of tabs it will be clutter of tab groups… of tabs, lol.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

whoa. mozilla doing something the people want?? WHAT PARALLEL WORLD IS THIS?

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

Don't worry they say they'll shove AI in it so it's definitely our world

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (14 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] 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 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] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

Can someone at least help me understand what tabs have that bookmarks don’t?

If i have more then 4 tabs open i get anxious because i can’t intuitively remember what each does. I have folders for categories of bookmarks.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

It's a combination of things... I'm a software developer, so I'll often end up with 20+ tabs open while resolving a problem.

  • I don't want to bookmark them because I don't need them when I finish the task.
  • I can't close the tabs until I'm sure everything's working because Google sucks these days and who knows how hard it'll be to find the source again.
  • Relying on browser history is like finding a needle in a haystack. Tasks can take multiple days and 100 different entries in history.
  • I might have "finished" a task that still needs tested and I know it's a bit shaky; I'll want to move onto a new task but keep the most useful references until I no longer need them.
  • I only bookmark pages that I'll need long-term or multiple times. It's already hard enough to keep those organized...

My tab hoarding has only gotten this bad because search engines are terrible now and the amount of AI garbage to sort through makes finding anything useful a pain in the ass the first time; let alone trying to find it a second time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Relying on browser history is like finding a needle in a haystack.

Oh sweet Satan, yes. I wish somebody could explain to me why browser history is so awful.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

if i bookmark something i will never look at it again

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I only find my saved bookmarks randomly by typing something in the address bar and the bookmark popping up as the first result.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I keep tabs open for active projects. Once the project is over, I bookmark them for future reference.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Amg I couldn't figure out how to collapse. I'm so happy rn. I've been containerising everything. It's so soothing.

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

Ever since i switched to zen browser i hace not thought of coming back for a second.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yea Zen is amazing, especially the neat Workspaces feature.

I'm still going back to Firefox because of tab groups.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So after I save and close a group... where do I find it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

The lack of groups was the deal breaker for me, so after it rolled out to beta, I finally switched back to Firefox as my primary browser.

Last I tried, I don't think you could reorder or drag/drop groups and selecting multiple tabs doesn't result in "group tabs" in the context menu, but it is still decent enough.

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