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Unfortunately, this extension, too will soon die when Firefox no longer supports legacy addons. I think there is a new Firefox experiment that behaves somewhat

Unfortunately, this extension, too will soon die when Firefox no longer supports legacy addons. I think there is a new Firefox experiment that behaves somewhat like this: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers

Manishearth 9y ago
IIRC https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups/?src=ss https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups/?s... is a replacement Container tabs is totally different, that's about basically having multiple profiles in one window. E.g you can have the work container logged into your work email and work stuff, and your personal container logged in to your personal email and personal stuff, and they don't know about each other. Like incognito, but persistent and within the same window.
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- huntie 9y ago
  That looks really good! I'll have to try it out first, but it makes me more hopeful about Firefox's future.
- bigbugbag 9y ago
  I didn't know of this one, is its tab management any good ? As in how do you move tabs around groups, open/duplicat/close tabs and groups ? The 'simplified' in its name makes me doubtful it has any of the advanced features I need.
  - Manishearth 9y ago
    No idea, I haven't used tab groups in a year, so I've never tried the new version. These "redone" addons that work post 57 start out pretty bare-minimum but they rapidly gain features.
- tedmiston 9y ago
  I've been looking for something just like this for Chrome but haven't quite found it yet.
- akavel 9y ago
  Will it work after the legacy addons support is removed? If yes, how can you tell? I couldn't find any related keywords I know on the addon's page.
bigbugbag 9y ago
According to its developer it is the only of his extensions that may have a shot at surviving webextensions, though requires a rewrite and dropping of some of the useful features. Tab Groups has a shot. I took on this project after it was decided to remove the built-in Tab Groups from Firefox, as I thought it could be a good and fun learning experience; it hasn't been, if anything it's been stressful and time-consuming. I don't really use groups outside of my development profile, with my browsing habits I only find them useful to a point, they're helpful for my development/coding workflow, but I've used them maybe twice in my main profile during normal browsing. Its core functionality and basic workflow probably can be made into a WebExtension, but only after an almost complete rewrite of the code (with some major work done on Firefox's side as well!), and still stripped down of at least some of its features. Many of the new groups features I've wanted to add since the beginning are impossible though, for the same reason as I mentioned above: they either don't fit the scope of what can be allowed through WebExtensions or their implementation would be far too complex to do on my own.

Manishearth 9y ago

IIRC https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups/?src=ss https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups/?s... is a replacement Container tabs is totally different, that's about basically having multiple profiles in one window. E.g you can have the work container logged into your work email and work stuff, and your personal container logged in to your personal email and personal stuff, and they don't know about each other. Like incognito, but persistent and within the same window.

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huntie 9y ago
That looks really good! I'll have to try it out first, but it makes me more hopeful about Firefox's future.
bigbugbag 9y ago
I didn't know of this one, is its tab management any good ? As in how do you move tabs around groups, open/duplicat/close tabs and groups ? The 'simplified' in its name makes me doubtful it has any of the advanced features I need.
- Manishearth 9y ago
  No idea, I haven't used tab groups in a year, so I've never tried the new version. These "redone" addons that work post 57 start out pretty bare-minimum but they rapidly gain features.
tedmiston 9y ago
I've been looking for something just like this for Chrome but haven't quite found it yet.
akavel 9y ago
Will it work after the legacy addons support is removed? If yes, how can you tell? I couldn't find any related keywords I know on the addon's page.

bigbugbag 9y ago

According to its developer it is the only of his extensions that may have a shot at surviving webextensions, though requires a rewrite and dropping of some of the useful features. Tab Groups has a shot. I took on this project after it was decided to remove the built-in Tab Groups from Firefox, as I thought it could be a good and fun learning experience; it hasn't been, if anything it's been stressful and time-consuming. I don't really use groups outside of my development profile, with my browsing habits I only find them useful to a point, they're helpful for my development/coding workflow, but I've used them maybe twice in my main profile during normal browsing. Its core functionality and basic workflow probably can be made into a WebExtension, but only after an almost complete rewrite of the code (with some major work done on Firefox's side as well!), and still stripped down of at least some of its features. Many of the new groups features I've wanted to add since the beginning are impossible though, for the same reason as I mentioned above: they either don't fit the scope of what can be allowed through WebExtensions or their implementation would be far too complex to do on my own.