Firefox Finally Did It
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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.

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

    • some_random_nick@lemmy.world
      293·
      21 days ago

      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.

        • cx40@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          20 days ago

          Do you know if there’s a similar extension that allows you to export/import the tabs in some text format rather than saving to bookmarks? I’m currently using Tab Season Manager, but it takes way too many steps to accomplish this.

          • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
            1·
            17 days ago

            I did not know that, thanks. The reason I use Tab Stash is because I can use my Nextcloud instance to move the tabs/bookmarks automatically. As for privacy reasons I do not use FF sync.

            Moving a file seems like more work and more moving parts as I use multiple machines and different OS’es on the same machines.

      • Default_Defect@midwest.socialEnglish
        136·
        21 days ago

        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.

        • some_random_nick@lemmy.world
          51·
          21 days 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.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        25·
        21 days ago

        Have you heard of bookmarks? There’s a bookmark toolbar, that could look almost exactly the same if you want. Including folders with sub-folders, etc.

        • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
          21·
          21 days ago

          So you’re saying that pressing 2 on screen buttons, then closing a page is a better solution than creating a group then dragging in and out whatever you need? Sure, I use the bookmarks bar too, but it’s not for stuff I’ll remove after a while, those are perminent, but tab groups are generally for stuff you will eventually close, but wantto sort in the meantime to make it more convenient.

          If you don’t have a use for it, fair enough, I don’t either, but it is a genuinely useful feature for some that can’t be replaced by more clicks.

    • 1984
      4·
      21 days 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.

    • Underwire@lemmy.world
      41·
      21 days ago

      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.

    • sudoer777@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      21 days 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