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Tab Groups like Chrome (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by rizoid to c/[email protected]

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I heavily rely on these to keep myself organized. I've tried a few extensions on Firefox that didn't emulate the experience close enough. Does anyone know of any setting or extension that does tab groups in the tab bar like Chrome does?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think Container Tab Groups might be what you're looking for. ~~I think you have to pair it with Firefox Multi-Account Containers~~ That was wrong, it explicitly says in the description:

This add-on is probably compatible with the Firefox Multi-Account Containers add-on. But you do not need it for this addon to operate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a direct answer I'm afraid but I use Tree Style Tabs. You can group tabs (in a subtree), move them to other windows (drag and drop), close them together, ... It's helped me a lot keep my browser tabs tidy and grouped up by relevance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

In this vein there's also Simple Tab Groups which I use. Especially useful IMO if you have distinct groups for different projects

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not an exact copy, but i like Simple Tab Groups.

[–] aaaa 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a little confused.

I organize my tabs with different windows... Isn't that enough?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Using browser windows as an index of different work spaces in your browser seems unwieldy to me. It reorders them dependent on how you last alt-tabbed between them and doesn't offer a meaningful title for a particular workspace except for whatever the HTML title of the current active page for that window has at that moment. Also, you can't really preserve them if you close down your browser

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just use ctrl+shift+q or the menu option to exit the browser and find it remembers all my windows just fine, been doing it daily for years this way. I think this is default behaviour.

[–] aaaa 1 points 1 year ago

That makes sense. While it's never been a big problem for me to have windows reordered, I could imagine use cases where that would be a pain. For myself, it's pretty straightforward. I don't need titles, because my window manager always shows a thumbnail of the window contents. But while I may have 10 or 15 windows at a given time, I generally only have a few windows that stay up consistently. The others come and go as I need them.

Firefox does have "pinned tabs" which are a part of what you were saying, they preserve the tabs if you close the browser. I use this for the tabs I always have up, like streaming video, e-mail, and Lemmy.

[–] 4am 1 points 1 year ago

It makes more sense with multiple monitors

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There are no extensions that do it exactly like Chrome does with the collapsible groups in the tab bar, Firefox doesn’t support it.

There are a few extension for grouping tabs that other people have mentioned though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use power tabs which gives me a variety of stuff including grouping. I actually like it a bit better as the group part is bigger and easier to edit and move around to me. I can easily collapse the groups and then move them around in relation to each other.

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