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Hasn't tab groups been removed in the most recent release of firefox?

by kragniz 10y ago

gkya 10y ago
Oh God, why? Well, I use xombrero nowadays so I'd have missed it if such thing happened. It was there five-or-so months ago when I switched. So they put in Hello, Pocket, and whatnot, and remove sth. as relevant and useful as tabgroups? Silly. Didn't know that, sorry.
- JBReefer 10y ago
  I miss the old Mozilla, the modern Mozilla seems to have lost its way re: product decisions. It's a pity, they really were a guiding light of open source.
jamessb 10y ago
Yes, but the functionality is still available as an Add-On: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-removal https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-removal
- gkya 10y ago
  From the linked page: > The Tab Groups (Panorama) feature will be removed from Firefox in version 45. We know this may be inconvenient and we apologize. Removing the Tab Groups feature will make it easier for us to improve Firefox. This is plain stupid. How much effort could it be to maintain this feature? Compared to Hello, or Rust, or Servo? None of these are useful to most Firefox users, but tab groups were. How more complex is this than the WebMaker or Persona, stuff that practically no-one uses? Is this harder that writing their current homepage, with blocks, pictures and fancy? I'm not touching a Mozilla product again.
  - axit 10y ago
    As mentioned in the above link you can still use it as an add-on, works just like before: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-panorama/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-pa... Personally, I love tab groups but I can see most normal users not using it.
  - asddddd 10y ago
    It had extremely low usage: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210773#c6 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210773#c6 If the exact same functionality is available as an addon, why is this an issue? Persona is being abandoned as well, BTW.

Hasn't tab groups been removed in the most recent release of firefox?

by kragniz 10y ago

Hasn't tab groups been removed in the most recent release of firefox?

gkya 10y ago

Oh God, why? Well, I use xombrero nowadays so I'd have missed it if such thing happened. It was there five-or-so months ago when I switched. So they put in Hello, Pocket, and whatnot, and remove sth. as relevant and useful as tabgroups? Silly. Didn't know that, sorry.

JBReefer 10y ago
I miss the old Mozilla, the modern Mozilla seems to have lost its way re: product decisions. It's a pity, they really were a guiding light of open source.

jamessb 10y ago

Yes, but the functionality is still available as an Add-On: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-removal https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-removal

gkya 10y ago
From the linked page: > The Tab Groups (Panorama) feature will be removed from Firefox in version 45. We know this may be inconvenient and we apologize. Removing the Tab Groups feature will make it easier for us to improve Firefox. This is plain stupid. How much effort could it be to maintain this feature? Compared to Hello, or Rust, or Servo? None of these are useful to most Firefox users, but tab groups were. How more complex is this than the WebMaker or Persona, stuff that practically no-one uses? Is this harder that writing their current homepage, with blocks, pictures and fancy? I'm not touching a Mozilla product again.
- axit 10y ago
  As mentioned in the above link you can still use it as an add-on, works just like before: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-panorama/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-pa... Personally, I love tab groups but I can see most normal users not using it.
- asddddd 10y ago
  It had extremely low usage: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210773#c6 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210773#c6 If the exact same functionality is available as an addon, why is this an issue? Persona is being abandoned as well, BTW.