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Mozilla introduces updates to tab management in Firefox
- vidyesh 2y agoAnyone wondering whats new (I did!) the feature of Closing multiple tabs and managing Duplicate tabs seems to be the "new"-ish feature.
- lol768 2y agoWhat has actually changed here? I'm perhaps not the best person to be thinking about this, because I routinely use the nightlies to test things, but weren't many of those things in the stable already? The more exciting thing in my opinion is the really cool work that's been going on in the form of the Vertical tabs/Sidebar nightly experiment.
- martin_a 2y agoDuplicating tabs, pinning tabs, stuff like that seems new to me as a Firefox user. edit: Yeah, you're right, old features, I just didn't use them. :-D
- dantondwa 2y agoThey’ve been there for a long while, I don’t think they’re new.
- lol768 2y agoPinning tabs has been in Firefox for about a decade, I think!
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- Pathogen-David 2y agoThe context menu item for duplicating tabs might be new, but you've been able to middle-click the refresh button to duplicate the current tab for quite some time now.
- afiori 2y agoThey added a new context menu option to close duplicate tabs
- pantulis 2y agoI was expecting tab folders to match with the new vertical sidebar, but count me unimpressed.
- wakawaka28 2y agoBookmarking feature to bookmark multiple tabs, among other things. That actually sounds useful and innovative. If you can pick a folder for those bookmarks and search them, that would be a killer feature.
- muhrizqiardi 2y agoAm I missing something? These seems to be an existing feature.
- longwave 2y agoTabs now show a preview on hover since Firefox 129, which is a nice improvement, but it's not actually mentioned on that page.
- domh 2y agoI do not have that on v130. Got any links to release notes about that one?
- chedabob 2y agohttps://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/129.0/releasenotes/#note-790325 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/129.0/releasenotes/#no... It only does it for tabs that you've viewed previously (i.e. not restored from a previous session), and not the current tab.
- pmontra 2y agoFF 130 does not do that for me by default. I had to go to about:config and set browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled to true.
- domh 2y agoYeah same, this was off by default until I just toggled it on. Thanks for the tip!
- reginald78 2y agoUnfortunately it seems this doesn't work/integrate with TST.
- moxli 2y agoI wish firefox would introduce good vertical tab management like "Tree Style Tab".
- Semaphor 2y agoGood news: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/08/07/firefox-sidebar-and-vertical-tabs-try-them-out-in-nightly-firefox-labs-131/ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/08/07/firefox-sidebar-...
- mikae1 2y agoThat's actually bad news, because it will severely limited with no nesting. Sidebery or TST won't be replaced with this.
- nextaccountic 2y agoIf this means I can remove my firefox CSS that hides the horizontal tab bar at the top, and instead have it hidden automatically whenever I have Sidebery open, then this is an advance
- ewuhic 2y agoThis is absolutely not that. Another thing that I miss a lot from early-mid days of browsing is "Close tabs opened by this tab" button.
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- Tarq0n 2y agoThe native closing duplicate tabs is orders of magnitude faster than the Foxytab extension at least. Excited for more updates like these.
- nextcaller 2y ago8772 github commits, 310 commands, 298 settings -- later, I have this to show https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/grasshopper-urls/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/grasshopper-urls/
- Sakos 2y agoThis looks interesting. I have to ask though, do you play EVE Online? That's a very distinctive font I've never seen used elsewhere and this looks really similar.
- nextcaller 2y agoI've played it in the past, though I didn't realize it used a similar font
- TudorAndrei 2y agoI have been using Sidebery for 2 years and never had an issue. It has all the features I need (bookmarks, tabs, panels integrated with firefox containers, themes, snapshots) https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
- cropcirclbureau 2y agoObligatory Sideberry upvote. Fantastic piece of software.
- permo-w 2y agohave you tried Tree Style Tabs? if so, how do they compare? I use TST, but I'm never 100% pleased with it
- mikae1 2y agoI was a long time TST user. Switched to Sidebery over a year ago. Has a more polished feel. The styles editor is very nice. Changing the fonts to -apple-system made it blend in well with the OS.
- tux3 2y agoI switched from TST to Sideberry, I'm much happier now. It's still weirdly slow, it somehow takes thousands of milliseconds (entire seconds!) to display the tab list on startup, but much less buggy than TST.
- nextaccountic 2y agoI used TST for years until I switched to Sidebery, and I must say it somehow has all important settings from TST (which I supposed to be impossible - TST caters to tweakers in an extreme way) but is also faster (both startup time and day to day) and seem to use less memory as well. Some things are in unexpected places (for example I expected to reopen a closed tab with right click outside an open tab - reopen closed tab, but it's in the trash icon at the bottom), but I think they are in better places. Sidebery is better designed. Sidebery can also save your tabs automatically, something I used another extension for (Tab Extension Manager, which loads very slowly)
- HeadlessChild 2y agoWill they ever introduce tab groups? It seems to be a highly requested feature.
- Aachen 2y agoNot a Chrome user here. Is that like container tabs? Or more like how Windows will group windows of the same program when your task bar is full?
- HeadlessChild 2y agoThe latter one but it is grouped by the user manually.
- rrreese 2y ago- You Right click a tab and choose `Add to new Tab Group`. - You then name and set a colour for the group. - You then drag tabs in and out of the group. So far the tabs work much the same as ungrouped ones. There is a small coloured button to the left of the group with the name, and the tabs in the group are underlined with the same colour. But then you click the button and the tabs all collapse. The nice thing is when expanded they are just like every other tab, not hidden away in a folder, or some menu or modal. But then you can clean up with the press of a button. Lack of Tab Groups is what stopped me from switching to Firefox last year.
- Aachen 2y agoThat sounds like tree style tabs except with colors, that you have to manually set groups instead of it being grouped based on what opened what, and it's still horizontal so can't see more than a handful of tabs at the same time. On the other hand, it being native sounds like a big advantage (looking with one eye at xpi addons here, specifically the vertical tabs one Mozilla developed themselves and then immediately killed because it had been decided addons need to not be so powerful)
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- fifteen1506 2y agoFYI Brave, and I suppose Chromium, has a flag that, when enabled, when typing an existing tab/already open website, shows the the existing tab instead of allowing to create duplicates by mistake.
- rhamzeh 2y agoFirefox has been doing that for a long while too. It recommends going to the already open tab but you can ignore that and open a nee tab anyway if you wish.
- lukebennett 2y agoFirefox offers this in the dropdown when typing a URL, there's a "Switch to Tab" option to take you straight to the existing tab instead of creating a duplicate.
- zelphirkalt 2y agoOr, if you already know it is already opened, you can use % prefix in the url bar to only suggest switching to already opened tabs.
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- igornadj 2y agoUnrelated, why don't any non-chromium browsers do tabs like Chrome? Taking personal preference out of it completely, it would seem the most used browser by virtue of this fact has the best UI, so why not just copy it? I'm anticipating replies along the lines of, Chrome doesn't have the best UI, but the numbers don't lie, something is going on. Even just offering it as an option would be a good way to test the theory. (I know Firefox has themes and customisations to make it similar, but it's not the same, it's a hurdle and the end result isn't the same, and Mozilla doesn't seem interested in making this pursuit easy).
- cassianoleal 2y agoWhat does "do tabs like Chrome" mean?
- ntp85 2y agoOP might refer to tab grouping being readily available in Chrome whereas Firefox requires additional add-ons for it.
- desdenova 2y agoWhy would I want to "group" tabs though? Is it something related to that disease people have of hoarding thousands of tabs instead of just opening what they actually need?
- rgreekguy 2y agoChrome's tab groups implementation is pretty nice. I used it at work, very neat. Having tabs grouped by ticket, I might not work on one ticket today, I can collapse the group. Of course, like its tabs, it's only good in small numbers, and in small names...
- lxgr 2y agoWhy do you think you know what other people actually need?
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- Apreche 2y agoPeople are wild with how many tabs they leave open. I never needed any of the advanced tab features or add-ons because I actually close tabs! I only leave a tab open if I’m still actively using it. If I need to remember a tab I save the url in a bookmarking tool of some kind. Then I can easily find it later. Ctrl/cmd+w is the keyboard shortcut. I highly recommend it. If you have so many tabs you can read all the titles in normal horizontal mode, you have a problem.
- alabhyajindal 2y ago> If you have so many tabs you can read all the titles in normal horizontal mode, you have a problem. Do you mean "can't read all the titles"?
- stvltvs 2y agoAs a reformed tab hoarder, I concur completely. I do a nightly sweep where I force myself to save URLs for anything I need and close my browser completely.