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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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[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 1 points 2 days ago
[–] Reisen@sh.itjust.works 82 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] jupiter2643@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 week 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.

[–] Ery@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] jupiter2643@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago

Thank you for this!

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 21 points 1 week 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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[–] raptir@mander.xyz 39 points 1 week 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.

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[–] jhonmu648@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 1 week ago (34 children)

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

[–] OpFARv30@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago

Neither can we.

[–] Sibyls@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] kazaika@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week 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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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Agile and task reprioritization at work.

Too many projects to work on at home.

Games.

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[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 29 points 1 week ago (5 children)

live to help you declutter

Me ready to clutter even more 😈

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[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

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

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

[–] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week 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.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week 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.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week 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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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 week 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.

[–] TheBeesKnees@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 1 week 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.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week 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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[–] lime@feddit.nu 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

if i bookmark something i will never look at it again

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 8 points 1 week 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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[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] om1k@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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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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