It was useful 8 years ago when they removed it, that’s for sure.
Tab groups where natively implemented?
Yes, they worked differently than the way Edge or Chrome do now and were in many ways superior for tab management, much more like Vivaldi’s sessions but more intuitive. I was a heavy user and so am biased. They said “just use an extension!” but it would crash and lose your session (and imo the extension works even worse today). It was really ahead of its time.
Few people used it because they didn’t advertise it or make it easily discoverable. You had to know the shortcut already through osmosis or drag the button out of the customize menu.
Simple tab groups works better tbh. It uses the features to hide, list and manage tabs.
But a native in-line implementation would be best.
I actually prefer Chrome’s tab groups, preferring to have groups visible and one click away. Ideally the user would be able to choose whether to show or hide inactive groups.
Except it's still not available on mobile
True. That is an entirely different UI and also underlying browser issue. Mobile does not have Containers or process isolation.
Very laggy and overcomplicated, but found that too!
Yeah it's kinda laggy but does its job. I guess that was the reason why did they remove it from Firefox, it was slowing things down.
Afaik Epiphany has this.
Never used Epiphany as my main browser but it's nice to have it around as an another open-source browser project. Gotta check that feature.
I mean, why not use Geckoview? Mozilla is doing something really nice and has the only full fledged browser with actual Addon support. Meanwhile GNOME and KDE have half-baked projects that use engines only really maintained by Google and Apple.
Yeah, I don't understand that either. It can be used for something like Electron to run web-like programs but no one does that too.
Well, Thunderbird does that. Thats it. Seamonkey and how they were all called were before my time.
Over there! In the past!
Or tabs not crashing when you want to move them between different windows.
Or vertical icon-only tabs!
Genuinely the only good thing about Microsoft Edge. I wish other browsers had this.
One of the only reasons I used vivaldi for a while.
Please work on tab grouping instead!
Now this would be useful.
It was useful 8 years ago when they removed it, that’s for sure.
Tab groups where natively implemented?
Yes, they worked differently than the way Edge or Chrome do now and were in many ways superior for tab management, much more like Vivaldi’s sessions but more intuitive. I was a heavy user and so am biased. They said “just use an extension!” but it would crash and lose your session (and imo the extension works even worse today). It was really ahead of its time.
Few people used it because they didn’t advertise it or make it easily discoverable. You had to know the shortcut already through osmosis or drag the button out of the customize menu.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221050#c0
Simple tab groups works better tbh. It uses the features to hide, list and manage tabs.
But a native in-line implementation would be best.
I actually prefer Chrome’s tab groups, preferring to have groups visible and one click away. Ideally the user would be able to choose whether to show or hide inactive groups.
Except it's still not available on mobile
True. That is an entirely different UI and also underlying browser issue. Mobile does not have Containers or process isolation.
Closest thing to that feature is this add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-view/
Very laggy and overcomplicated, but found that too!
Yeah it's kinda laggy but does its job. I guess that was the reason why did they remove it from Firefox, it was slowing things down.
Afaik Epiphany has this.
Never used Epiphany as my main browser but it's nice to have it around as an another open-source browser project. Gotta check that feature.
I mean, why not use Geckoview? Mozilla is doing something really nice and has the only full fledged browser with actual Addon support. Meanwhile GNOME and KDE have half-baked projects that use engines only really maintained by Google and Apple.
Yeah, I don't understand that either. It can be used for something like Electron to run web-like programs but no one does that too.
Well, Thunderbird does that. Thats it. Seamonkey and how they were all called were before my time.
Over there! In the past!
Or tabs not crashing when you want to move them between different windows.
Or vertical icon-only tabs!
Genuinely the only good thing about Microsoft Edge. I wish other browsers had this.
One of the only reasons I used vivaldi for a while.