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> We’re excited to introduce multiple tab selection, which makes it easier to manage windows with many open tabs. Simply hold Control (Windows, Linux) or Comman

> We’re excited to introduce multiple tab selection, which makes it easier to manage windows with many open tabs. Simply hold Control (Windows, Linux) or Command (macOS) and click on tabs to select them. Once selected, click and drag to move the tabs as a group — either within a given window, or out into a new window. Yessss. It doesn't happen often, but the times when I open up 6-10 tabs for research but then decide they deserve their own window so I can focus on them (and subsequently drag them out one by one) is still a lot.

squarefoot 8y ago
Also being able to save them as a session would be a nice touch.
- kevincrane 8y ago
  My method for this is usually to do "Bookmark All Tabs" to shove all of the open tabs in a window into their own folder.
- davidjade 8y ago
  I just found this yesterday, for saving sessions. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-sync/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-sync/ It has the advantage that it just saves to a special spot in bookmarks, so these sessions sync across devices too: open source too: https://github.com/ReDEnergy/SessionSync https://github.com/ReDEnergy/SessionSync
  - konart 8y ago
    https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/tab-session-manager/ https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/tab-session-mana... Is great too.
peshooo 8y ago
In cases like this I used to open a new window and use this plugin [0] to move them fast, because dragging tabs between windows seems very finicky to me in Firefox. Hopefully with this update things will improve. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/movetab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/movetab/
- dredmorbius 8y ago
  Moving tabs-between-windows (Tree Style Tabs, OSX) is probably my least favourite part of Firefox presently. That and the keep-consuming-all-memory-until-all-memory-is-consumed switch, and the killing of GCLI (see: https://joindiaspora.com/posts/77a57160cf470136d1540218b70db60d https://joindiaspora.com/posts/77a57160cf470136d1540218b70db...) which makes restarting FF far more fraught. Quite honestly, a "force quit" seems to be the most effective approach.
- moosingin3space 8y ago
  I actually wrote my own extension to do quick tab movement across multiple windows (often on different monitors/workspaces) all from the keyboard: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/workspaces-for-firefox/?src=search https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/workspaces-fo...
aylmao 8y ago
It's the little things (: To be honest as soon as I figure out how to change all the little workflow details I currently use in Chrome, I'll be happy to switch to use Firefox more often / primarily. I love how snappy Quantum feels.
- Vel0cityX 8y ago
  Or Vivaldi (https://vivaldi.com https://vivaldi.com), which has many such quality of life improvements over both Chrome and Firefox.
adtac 8y ago
This was a GSoC project :) https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2018-July/006691.html https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2018-July/006...
AnaniasAnanas 8y ago
I am on 63 and I already have it. It's just that it was disabled by default and you needed to enable it in about:config. I used to use the multiple tabs handler addon but it stopped working once I moved to 60esr so I was glad that they introduced it back.
kodablah 8y ago
One of the greatest multiple-tab features is available in the Multiple Tab Handler [0] in combination with Tree-Style Tabs: click-drag to close (or select). It's a bit more tedious in the current non-XUL versions of FF (have to mouse down longer), but basically if you need to close like 50 tabs in your tree, you can mouse down over one "x" and drag selecting the other "x"s and once you mouse up it closes them all. Want to close every other one or a more specific set? With the mouse down, only go over the "x"s you want to close. The same thing on the tab itself for selecting multiple tabs to do anything like reparent, reload, etc. 0 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-handler/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-...
itsjustme321 8y ago
Yess, finally, I use this feature in chromium A LOT, and it's one of the things that stopped me from switching back to firefox as my primary browser. There's still a five year old bug where firefox thinks the window has the last size from the previous session when you restart it and save open tabs, when using a tiling window manager, but it fixes itself when you manually resize it, I can learn to live with this.
- liopleurodon 8y ago
  oh man. yes, I experience this everyday (awesomewm user)
  - itsjustme321 8y ago
    This is the bug report on the mozilla bugtracker by the way, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=927621 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=927621
ehsankia 8y ago
It's one of the features I love the most on chrome. Even better than pulling tabs into a new window is merging two windows. Without this trick you have to move tabs one by one, but with this you can merge two windows super easily.
sorenjan 8y ago
I use Panorama View, it's a clone of the old tab groups functionality. Multiple windows is hard to save as a session. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-view/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-view...
- mr_woozy 8y ago
  I endlessly miss tab grouping
  - Ayesh 8y ago
    Simple Tab Groups add-on (with latest updates) works wonders and I'd even say better than old Tab Groups.
- projectdelphai 8y ago
  I would recommend Panorama Tab Groups over Panorama View fyi just because panorama view doesn't see a lot of maintenance in recent months. They're still there, but in hibernation so they don't get new features right now. https://github.com/projectdelphai/panorama-tab-groups https://github.com/projectdelphai/panorama-tab-groups full disclosure: I'm the maintainer for Panorama Tab Groups right now so I am slightly biased. I do think photodiode and the guys in charge of Panorama View are way better than I am at this, but since they're not active right now, I've created a fork so I can have a more up to date add-on
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stcredzero 8y ago
I used to use OneTab, but it wasn't robustly constructed to deal with data loss/recovery. I've now moved on to Session Buddy, which has some really nice features, like auto-saving your browsing sessions without your doing anything. (I guess I should check if that respects private modes.)
Endy 8y ago
Oh good, so now they're bringing in another Chrome feature. Or should I say, an Opera feature that Chrome stole and wasn't necessary in Firefox.
- Piskvorrr 8y ago
  Opera is dead, and I'm sad about that. Implementing features that made Opera great is the best course of action, IMNSHO.
- themagicteeth 8y ago
  Was it not necessary in Chrome too then?
scrollaway 8y ago
This is one of those Chrome features that was keeping me on Chrome. I kept switching to Firefox and this would be a major reason why I would switch back. Super happy right now.
- a_rahmanshah 8y ago
  Wow! I didn't know this worked on Chrome.
  - hencoappel 8y ago
    I didn't know this didn't work in Firefox!

squarefoot 8y ago

Also being able to save them as a session would be a nice touch.

kevincrane 8y ago
My method for this is usually to do "Bookmark All Tabs" to shove all of the open tabs in a window into their own folder.
davidjade 8y ago
I just found this yesterday, for saving sessions. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-sync/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-sync/ It has the advantage that it just saves to a special spot in bookmarks, so these sessions sync across devices too: open source too: https://github.com/ReDEnergy/SessionSync https://github.com/ReDEnergy/SessionSync
- konart 8y ago
  https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/tab-session-manager/ https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/tab-session-mana... Is great too.

peshooo 8y ago

In cases like this I used to open a new window and use this plugin [0] to move them fast, because dragging tabs between windows seems very finicky to me in Firefox. Hopefully with this update things will improve. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/movetab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/movetab/

dredmorbius 8y ago
Moving tabs-between-windows (Tree Style Tabs, OSX) is probably my least favourite part of Firefox presently. That and the keep-consuming-all-memory-until-all-memory-is-consumed switch, and the killing of GCLI (see: https://joindiaspora.com/posts/77a57160cf470136d1540218b70db60d https://joindiaspora.com/posts/77a57160cf470136d1540218b70db...) which makes restarting FF far more fraught. Quite honestly, a "force quit" seems to be the most effective approach.
moosingin3space 8y ago
I actually wrote my own extension to do quick tab movement across multiple windows (often on different monitors/workspaces) all from the keyboard: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/workspaces-for-firefox/?src=search https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/workspaces-fo...

aylmao 8y ago

It's the little things (: To be honest as soon as I figure out how to change all the little workflow details I currently use in Chrome, I'll be happy to switch to use Firefox more often / primarily. I love how snappy Quantum feels.

Vel0cityX 8y ago
Or Vivaldi (https://vivaldi.com https://vivaldi.com), which has many such quality of life improvements over both Chrome and Firefox.

adtac 8y ago

This was a GSoC project :) https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2018-July/006691.html https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2018-July/006...

AnaniasAnanas 8y ago

I am on 63 and I already have it. It's just that it was disabled by default and you needed to enable it in about:config. I used to use the multiple tabs handler addon but it stopped working once I moved to 60esr so I was glad that they introduced it back.

kodablah 8y ago

One of the greatest multiple-tab features is available in the Multiple Tab Handler [0] in combination with Tree-Style Tabs: click-drag to close (or select). It's a bit more tedious in the current non-XUL versions of FF (have to mouse down longer), but basically if you need to close like 50 tabs in your tree, you can mouse down over one "x" and drag selecting the other "x"s and once you mouse up it closes them all. Want to close every other one or a more specific set? With the mouse down, only go over the "x"s you want to close. The same thing on the tab itself for selecting multiple tabs to do anything like reparent, reload, etc. 0 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-handler/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-...

itsjustme321 8y ago

Yess, finally, I use this feature in chromium A LOT, and it's one of the things that stopped me from switching back to firefox as my primary browser. There's still a five year old bug where firefox thinks the window has the last size from the previous session when you restart it and save open tabs, when using a tiling window manager, but it fixes itself when you manually resize it, I can learn to live with this.

liopleurodon 8y ago
oh man. yes, I experience this everyday (awesomewm user)
- itsjustme321 8y ago
  This is the bug report on the mozilla bugtracker by the way, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=927621 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=927621

ehsankia 8y ago

It's one of the features I love the most on chrome. Even better than pulling tabs into a new window is merging two windows. Without this trick you have to move tabs one by one, but with this you can merge two windows super easily.

sorenjan 8y ago

I use Panorama View, it's a clone of the old tab groups functionality. Multiple windows is hard to save as a session. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-view/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-view...

mr_woozy 8y ago
I endlessly miss tab grouping
- Ayesh 8y ago
  Simple Tab Groups add-on (with latest updates) works wonders and I'd even say better than old Tab Groups.
projectdelphai 8y ago
I would recommend Panorama Tab Groups over Panorama View fyi just because panorama view doesn't see a lot of maintenance in recent months. They're still there, but in hibernation so they don't get new features right now. https://github.com/projectdelphai/panorama-tab-groups https://github.com/projectdelphai/panorama-tab-groups full disclosure: I'm the maintainer for Panorama Tab Groups right now so I am slightly biased. I do think photodiode and the guys in charge of Panorama View are way better than I am at this, but since they're not active right now, I've created a fork so I can have a more up to date add-on

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stcredzero 8y ago

I used to use OneTab, but it wasn't robustly constructed to deal with data loss/recovery. I've now moved on to Session Buddy, which has some really nice features, like auto-saving your browsing sessions without your doing anything. (I guess I should check if that respects private modes.)

Endy 8y ago

Oh good, so now they're bringing in another Chrome feature. Or should I say, an Opera feature that Chrome stole and wasn't necessary in Firefox.

Piskvorrr 8y ago
Opera is dead, and I'm sad about that. Implementing features that made Opera great is the best course of action, IMNSHO.
themagicteeth 8y ago
Was it not necessary in Chrome too then?

scrollaway 8y ago

This is one of those Chrome features that was keeping me on Chrome. I kept switching to Firefox and this would be a major reason why I would switch back. Super happy right now.

a_rahmanshah 8y ago
Wow! I didn't know this worked on Chrome.
- hencoappel 8y ago
  I didn't know this didn't work in Firefox!