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Discontinuing the tab groups feature in Firefox
- ronjouch 11y agoSad to hear they are just "discontinuing" it rather than porting it as an addon. Or is it killed because it's the kind of addon impossible to implement with the new WebExtensions API?
- jonathonf 11y agoThe rationale of "declining usage" could be a bit misleading. Two thought processes: 1) Tab groups are disabled by default on clean profiles (you have to move it out of the 'customise' menu), so tab groups are used by more advanced users, and more advanced users are more likely to be disabling telemetry. Combined, any usage statistics are pretty meaningless. 2) Hiding functionality by default will mean it gets used less. Showing functionality by default (Hello, Pocket) will mean it gets used more.
- viktorbenei 11y agoThe tab groups feature was pretty much the only reason why I used Firefox as my primary work browser, as it managed the separation of projects / topics.. Does anyone know any alternatives (for Firefox or other browser) which can help with the visual clutter of managing 30+ tabs in an efficient way, and can handle groups as well?
- jonathonf 11y agoPalemoon has the Tab Groups feature as a separate addon: http://www.palemoon.org/tabgroups.shtml http://www.palemoon.org/tabgroups.shtml Source code is here: https://github.com/wolfbeast/palemoon-tabgroups https://github.com/wolfbeast/palemoon-tabgroups "This is the repository for the Tabgroups add-on source code for Pale Moon, based on Tim Taubert's work as part of the proposal to remove Tab groups from Firefox and moving the removed code to an extension." Installs fine in Firefox 45a too, but it's not signed (obviously).
- viktorbenei 11y agoExactly what I needed, thank you!
- jonathonf 11y agoPossibly of interest will be the BugZilla item: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836758 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836758 Dates back to 2013, unsurprisingly has some more recent activity. :)