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I just discovered that you can pin tabs, which means that they are always loaded when you open firefox. This is a game changer for me. Whenever I open firefox, all my most visited tabs are automatically loaded and there's no loading time anymore. Of course I still need rules for cookie autodelete but it's awesome!
e.g. you can create a shortcut for about:config
It works great in combination with the keyboard shortcuts for opening the first, second, ... eighth tab, which is Alt+1 (or +2, +3, etc.) for me, but I think is Ctrl or Cmd instead of Alt on other OS's.
nice! but I hate that I cycle through tabs with CTRL and have to switch to Alt for pins.
However, they disappear and are not loaded anymore if you have multiple Firefox windows open and the window with the pinned tabs is not the last Firefox window one you close...
A solution for this is to go to the menu and "Quit Firefox" or something like that. That closes all the windows at once, and they all come back
Yeah, I run into this sometimes. Just need to be careful to use Ctrl-q to close all windows rather than closing them one-by-one.
In case you didn't know, you can restore windows under History-->Recently closed windows.
The pins are part of the window, so.. You can access old closed windows through the history menu, which I believe works after starting a new session after quitting it.
That's unfortunate. I'm running firefox as flatpak and the problem is not there
How strange. Thought this is a general issue or 'feature'. Maybe you close it FF differently as me? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1291164
Good question, alt+F4 😅
Lovely feature, been using it for years 👌 I have my calendar, email, homeassistant and zabbix pinned
They also don't move when the normal tab bar becomes scrollable due to too many tabs open, which is pretty neat IMO
Pinned Tabs allow you to always keep your favorite web apps like Facebook, Gmail and Twitter...
I think they missed their target audience here
I don't think we are the target audience because we don't really need to be told what pinning a tab does.
Yeah, mine is Jira, Slack, and Lemmy.
Pinned Tabs don't have a close button so you can't accidentally close them.
I wish they were immune to ctrl + w.
Hmm, they are for me. It just switches to the left-most unpinned tab.
On my private machine, it's as you say! I'll have to check at work, that's where I I thought I had the problem -- which I now think might just have been me thinking the tab closed because of the tab change. That'd be a relief, because I'm now careful when closing tabs.
Wish we could pin tabs on mobile
I wish we had pwas.
Firefox Mobile does? Use "Add to home screen". Are you missing any specific features?
On mobile I'd like to make paypal a pwa but it doesn't support it. I'm not aware of a mobile site that has pwa support that I'd like to use. (My fault or the website's fault, not firefox)
On desktop there is no pwa support. I just found an extension for ff https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox but it doesn't support flatpaks, hence I have to install firefox in a distrobox, I'll check it out
What do you meant doesn't support it? You can add any site to your home screen on mobile.
But yeah, having some sort of PWA mode would be cool. I remember Firefox used to have something like this but they killed it. Then PWAs became "cool". I think it was called Prism or something.
I don't think this is the same, PWAs can work offline for stuff like excalidraw where you might work on a project when you don't have internet.
But for most things it's fine.
I don't think you quite understand how PWAs work. "PWA" doesn't really mean anything. It is just the idea of a website that behaves like people expect of a native app. Offline support is generally accomplished via the Service Worker API which Firefox fully supports. I have offline "PWA"s on my home screen right now. But these APIs don't actually depend on anything about the home screen. Even just navigating to an offline-capable "PWA" via URL should just work in Firefox.
Maybe some sites special case Chrome, but that is a limitation of the site, not any limitation of Firefox.
One collary as that with an ever growing set of APIs associated with PWA there is going to be some features that differ between browsers. For example Firefox currently doesn't support receiving shares but Chrome does. But I can't think of any "fundamental" PWA API that Firefox on Android doesn't support.
Even when a website doesn't support "Install" you get "Add to home screen" instead. Perhaps that helps.
Soon, hopefully.
Not quite the same but you can use "Add to home screen" then your homescreen becomes your tab pin page.
Then my homescreen becomes a mess 😭
I put them on a secondary homescreen. Or you can put them in a folder.
It's pretty useless since the pinned tabs are lost when the browser is closed.
I was hoping there was a better solution than keeping the tabs I always have open in a bookmark folder and doing an open all bookmarks every time I start firefox.