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Firefox has this feature and it's great. Mozilla should be promoting the hell out of Tab Groups instead of shit like Pocket.

by Grue3 11y ago

glomph 11y ago
Jeez it is so hidden! Ctrl-shift-E if anyone is wondering. I had no idea. Slightly annoying it is per window though. I sort of expected the next window I opened to be able to 'boot' up an existing group. This seems to be just tab grouping rather than projects in any meaningful sense. They are only in session data and they don't sync.
magicmu 11y ago
I've really been blown away by Firefox lately, it's looking better and better. I'm still not confident enough to make it my primary browser for dev though; Chrome's dev tools are just amazing.
- skynetv2 11y ago
  i moved to exclusively using firefox about 8 months ago and loved it. chrome was good ... the key word being "was"
- petepete 11y ago
  Chrome's dev tools are the only thing keeping me with it. I use Firefox at home, and the dev tools have improved lots over the last year, but there are a few small annoyances compared to Chrome.
  - erlich 11y ago
    I switched to Safari recently for my main browsing. My life has significantly improved. Chrome was just too damn slow, and I always stayed with it because I thought I needed the extensions and the features that Safari lacked, and that Chrome iOS was better. Turned out I didn't, and Safari has lots of great features that are well thought through. I still use Chrome for web dev, but it only runs a single tab with the web app I'm working on. Try new things! :)
- hrbrtglm 11y ago
  It keeps getting better and better for sure. Now, if only they could fix bugs hanging around for more than 6 years, it would be cool too. ie: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488725 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488725
- Grue3 11y ago
  It's weird that everyone is praising Chrome's dev tools, I've been using Firebug and now default Firefox dev tools for a long time, but whenever I get to debug some Chrome-related bug, Chrome's dev tools make me extremely frustrated. The UI is very small for some reason which makes it hard to click on anything. It's very unintuitive and for the life of me I couldn't even find the place where I can view the page's CSS. Oh, and there appeared to be no way to detach it or get it out of the way so it doesn't eat the precious vertical space. Guess it's mostly a matter of which one you're used to.
  - dredmorbius 11y ago
    Chrome's dev tools are detachable: top right corner, might have to hover over it.
piyush_soni 11y ago
To top it, they have been contemplating 'separating' this Tab Groups built-in functionality to an add-on. And they're bringing not so useful add-ons as Pocket to make them built-in.
kenrick95 11y ago
I've been happily using this feature for a long time (since 4.0?). I usually promotes this under-promoted feature to my friends. I also tell people that Firefox has a color picker and full-page screenshot taker built into its devtools.
Rondom 11y ago
I personally prefer to use the Firefox addons TreeStyleTab and TabMixPlus instead. In my opinion, managing tabs as a tree allows greater flexibility and enables one to see the "history" behind tabs (which tab opened which other tab).

Firefox has this feature and it's great. Mozilla should be promoting the hell out of Tab Groups instead of shit like Pocket.

by Grue3 11y ago

Firefox has this feature and it's great. Mozilla should be promoting the hell out of Tab Groups instead of shit like Pocket.

glomph 11y ago

Jeez it is so hidden! Ctrl-shift-E if anyone is wondering. I had no idea. Slightly annoying it is per window though. I sort of expected the next window I opened to be able to 'boot' up an existing group. This seems to be just tab grouping rather than projects in any meaningful sense. They are only in session data and they don't sync.

magicmu 11y ago

I've really been blown away by Firefox lately, it's looking better and better. I'm still not confident enough to make it my primary browser for dev though; Chrome's dev tools are just amazing.

skynetv2 11y ago
i moved to exclusively using firefox about 8 months ago and loved it. chrome was good ... the key word being "was"
petepete 11y ago
Chrome's dev tools are the only thing keeping me with it. I use Firefox at home, and the dev tools have improved lots over the last year, but there are a few small annoyances compared to Chrome.
- erlich 11y ago
  I switched to Safari recently for my main browsing. My life has significantly improved. Chrome was just too damn slow, and I always stayed with it because I thought I needed the extensions and the features that Safari lacked, and that Chrome iOS was better. Turned out I didn't, and Safari has lots of great features that are well thought through. I still use Chrome for web dev, but it only runs a single tab with the web app I'm working on. Try new things! :)
hrbrtglm 11y ago
It keeps getting better and better for sure. Now, if only they could fix bugs hanging around for more than 6 years, it would be cool too. ie: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488725 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488725
Grue3 11y ago
It's weird that everyone is praising Chrome's dev tools, I've been using Firebug and now default Firefox dev tools for a long time, but whenever I get to debug some Chrome-related bug, Chrome's dev tools make me extremely frustrated. The UI is very small for some reason which makes it hard to click on anything. It's very unintuitive and for the life of me I couldn't even find the place where I can view the page's CSS. Oh, and there appeared to be no way to detach it or get it out of the way so it doesn't eat the precious vertical space. Guess it's mostly a matter of which one you're used to.
- dredmorbius 11y ago
  Chrome's dev tools are detachable: top right corner, might have to hover over it.

piyush_soni 11y ago

To top it, they have been contemplating 'separating' this Tab Groups built-in functionality to an add-on. And they're bringing not so useful add-ons as Pocket to make them built-in.

kenrick95 11y ago

I've been happily using this feature for a long time (since 4.0?). I usually promotes this under-promoted feature to my friends. I also tell people that Firefox has a color picker and full-page screenshot taker built into its devtools.

Rondom 11y ago

I personally prefer to use the Firefox addons TreeStyleTab and TabMixPlus instead. In my opinion, managing tabs as a tree allows greater flexibility and enables one to see the "history" behind tabs (which tab opened which other tab).