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Firefox used to have this feature, but it was removed. You need to install this extension now: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-panoram

Firefox used to have this feature, but it was removed. You need to install this extension now: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-panorama/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-pa...

lobster_johnson 9y ago
Are the "groups" persistent and tied to the window? So if you change the tabs around, close the window, then "open" the group again, you will get exactly what you had?
- yardshop 9y ago
  They are persistent, but I don't think they are tied to a window (I mainly just use one). But your groups are kept as you left them after restarting. I have 7 groups right now on my home machine, and that many or more on my work machine. Each has a few to a large number of tabs in it. I have about 28 in my current one. Each group contains tabs about a different topic, such as daily visit sites, searches and articles for ongoing development in a particular language, research into specific projects, or random lookups. I also use the Tree View Tabs extension which show tabs in a hierarchical list on the left, instead of across the top. This is a better use of space for me and shows the relationships of tabs. I am going to miss both of these severely if the XUL plugins go away this fall as they are saying. My web workflow is much more efficient with them, at least in Firefox. I like using Chrome, but with a lot of pages open I just have a squished up mass of tabs across the top that can't be easily read, it's a big bother. Anyway, I wish there were more extensions for more browsers that improved the state of managing large groups of tabs by topic.
- bigbugbag 9y ago
  Last time I tried the groups that were opened when quitting firefox would reopen at next launch but you could not "reopen" a closed group. Having more than one window was asking for trouble as in risking losing all your groups and tabs because there another firefox window opened in the background or the downthemall manager window when you closed the main firefox windows. Workaround is to always quit firefox using the ctrl+q shortcut, though at times groups will reopen with the correct number of tabs but they're all empty. Best bet is to manually save your session at times.
kenrick95 9y ago
Unfortunately, this extension, too will soon die when Firefox no longer supports legacy addons. I think there is a new Firefox experiment that behaves somewhat like this: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers
- Manishearth 9y ago
  IIRC https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups/?src=ss https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups/?s... is a replacement Container tabs is totally different, that's about basically having multiple profiles in one window. E.g you can have the work container logged into your work email and work stuff, and your personal container logged in to your personal email and personal stuff, and they don't know about each other. Like incognito, but persistent and within the same window.
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  - huntie 9y ago
    That looks really good! I'll have to try it out first, but it makes me more hopeful about Firefox's future.
  - bigbugbag 9y ago
    I didn't know of this one, is its tab management any good ? As in how do you move tabs around groups, open/duplicat/close tabs and groups ? The 'simplified' in its name makes me doubtful it has any of the advanced features I need.
    - Manishearth 9y ago
      No idea, I haven't used tab groups in a year, so I've never tried the new version. These "redone" addons that work post 57 start out pretty bare-minimum but they rapidly gain features.
arvinsim 9y ago
Yep. I found that feature very useful before. Really sad when it was removed.
bigbugbag 9y ago
Nope, it didn't have that feature, though it had some basic foundations. It got removed as several others firefox features for no good reasons. There's also tab groups and tab groups helper but those are about to disappear[1] and make firefox useless for this use case. [1]: http://fasezero.com/ http://fasezero.com/
skrowl 9y ago
I LOVE tab groups. I'm hoping a WebExtension version comes out before FF57. It's impossible to go back once you get used to that UX.

lobster_johnson 9y ago

Are the "groups" persistent and tied to the window? So if you change the tabs around, close the window, then "open" the group again, you will get exactly what you had?

yardshop 9y ago
They are persistent, but I don't think they are tied to a window (I mainly just use one). But your groups are kept as you left them after restarting. I have 7 groups right now on my home machine, and that many or more on my work machine. Each has a few to a large number of tabs in it. I have about 28 in my current one. Each group contains tabs about a different topic, such as daily visit sites, searches and articles for ongoing development in a particular language, research into specific projects, or random lookups. I also use the Tree View Tabs extension which show tabs in a hierarchical list on the left, instead of across the top. This is a better use of space for me and shows the relationships of tabs. I am going to miss both of these severely if the XUL plugins go away this fall as they are saying. My web workflow is much more efficient with them, at least in Firefox. I like using Chrome, but with a lot of pages open I just have a squished up mass of tabs across the top that can't be easily read, it's a big bother. Anyway, I wish there were more extensions for more browsers that improved the state of managing large groups of tabs by topic.
bigbugbag 9y ago
Last time I tried the groups that were opened when quitting firefox would reopen at next launch but you could not "reopen" a closed group. Having more than one window was asking for trouble as in risking losing all your groups and tabs because there another firefox window opened in the background or the downthemall manager window when you closed the main firefox windows. Workaround is to always quit firefox using the ctrl+q shortcut, though at times groups will reopen with the correct number of tabs but they're all empty. Best bet is to manually save your session at times.

kenrick95 9y ago

Unfortunately, this extension, too will soon die when Firefox no longer supports legacy addons. I think there is a new Firefox experiment that behaves somewhat like this: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers

Manishearth 9y ago
IIRC https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups/?src=ss https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups/?s... is a replacement Container tabs is totally different, that's about basically having multiple profiles in one window. E.g you can have the work container logged into your work email and work stuff, and your personal container logged in to your personal email and personal stuff, and they don't know about each other. Like incognito, but persistent and within the same window.
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- huntie 9y ago
  That looks really good! I'll have to try it out first, but it makes me more hopeful about Firefox's future.
- bigbugbag 9y ago
  I didn't know of this one, is its tab management any good ? As in how do you move tabs around groups, open/duplicat/close tabs and groups ? The 'simplified' in its name makes me doubtful it has any of the advanced features I need.
  - Manishearth 9y ago
    No idea, I haven't used tab groups in a year, so I've never tried the new version. These "redone" addons that work post 57 start out pretty bare-minimum but they rapidly gain features.

arvinsim 9y ago

Yep. I found that feature very useful before. Really sad when it was removed.

bigbugbag 9y ago

Nope, it didn't have that feature, though it had some basic foundations. It got removed as several others firefox features for no good reasons. There's also tab groups and tab groups helper but those are about to disappear[1] and make firefox useless for this use case. [1]: http://fasezero.com/ http://fasezero.com/

skrowl 9y ago

I LOVE tab groups. I'm hoping a WebExtension version comes out before FF57. It's impossible to go back once you get used to that UX.