[HN Gopher] Firefox releases tab groups for nightly
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Firefox releases tab groups for nightly
Author : jack-bodine
Score : 50 points
Date : 2024-12-24 04:14 UTC (18 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
| AAAAaccountAAAA wrote:
| Hopefully they won't make it mandatorily enabled like on Android
| Chrome.
| danpalmer wrote:
| 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?
| sunaookami wrote:
| 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.
| kgeist wrote:
| >All tabs are opened in a tab group, sometimes they will
| open a new tab group. Very confusing behaviour.
|
| So I'm not the only one. I never figured out why sometimes
| tabs open in an existing group, and sometimes in a new
| group. Curious to find the spec which explains the
| behavior...
| coffeeling wrote:
| Brave has a setting to enable/disable the feature, idk if
| standard Chrome has it.
| sunaookami wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Opera 11 (Dec 2010) had 'tab stacking'.
| sunaookami wrote:
| Didn't knew that, interesting! Really miss the old Opera.
| ksec wrote:
| >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 wrote:
| This sounds a bit like an extension that nests tabs in a tree
| structure (I can't remember the name).
| alasarmas wrote:
| Tree Style Tabs?
|
| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-
| ta...
| coffeeling wrote:
| Huh? I use tab groups heavily in Brave. They're very useful,
| even if they're not nestable.
| hcs wrote:
| It's still a bit buggy in Nightly, it seems, over the last few
| days I keep triggering it on accident.
| wlesieutre wrote:
| 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?
| imcritic wrote:
| I want tab groups in Chromium :-(
| coffeeling wrote:
| Chromium has had tab groups for ages, both on desktop and
| mobile.
| e40 wrote:
| How long does it take to get from nightly to release?
| throwaway74354 wrote:
| Firefox 135 is expected to be released on February 4.
| elashri wrote:
| An obligatory mention of Firefox fork "zen" which provides group
| tabs and workspaces out of the box.
|
| https://zen-browser.app
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