sunaookami 19 hours ago | next |

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".

ksec 13 hours ago | root | parent | prev |

>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 11 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next |

This sounds a bit like an extension that nests tabs in a tree structure (I can't remember the name).

wlesieutre 18 hours ago | prev | next |

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?

infensus 7 hours ago | root | parent |

They took the most upvoted ideas from the community forum and started implementing them. Maybe to win some users over, but I think it might be too late for this to have any impact on market share.

I'm also kinda disappointed they just copied the UI from Chrome instead of releasing a refreshed version of the previous implementation. Old Firefox tab groups were like Safari tab groups (or "workspaces" in Edge, Vivaldi, Zen and maybe others), and I think they are way better for organisation. Yeah, STG extension still exists, but having it built-in would be nice.

AAAAaccountAAAA 21 hours ago | prev | next |

Hopefully they won't make it mandatorily enabled like on Android Chrome.

danpalmer 20 hours ago | root | parent |

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 19 hours ago | root | parent |

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 11 hours ago | root | parent | next |

>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...

johnea 7 hours ago | prev | next |

A word was left out of the title: Again... Firefox releases tab groups

Tabs (including all kinds of groupings and UIs) were the best when they were dealt with in NPAPI plugins.

Mozilla foundation has been screwing them up ever since.

Of course, always for the betterment of humanity, totally not just because goggle told them to...