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Firefox Finally Did It (Tab Groups) (linuxiac.com)
submitted 1 year ago* by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Thousands of users wanted it, so Firefox delivered it. Tab Groups are now live to help you declutter and stay organized while browsing.

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[–] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have a few use cases:

  1. Many youtube videos that are like 30+ minutes long saved for later
  2. Documentation on some stuff that I need to go back and forth
  3. Movies or games that I found, but don't want to write down and forget
  4. Going down rabbit holes on wikipedia and saving it for another day
  5. Everything else that catches my attention and deserves a honorable spot in the tab bar

Basically, I use my browser as a notebook. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah those all seem like great uses of bookmarks and save functions.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Bookmarks are only for the stuff I will always need again. Tabs just for the stuff I haven't finished yet and don't want to forget about.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Buddy have I got some news for you. You can actually delete bookmarks when you're done with them.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So a shit ton of tabs that never get looked at again? I swear all of you secretly want your tabs to disappear so you have something to complain about.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I will do my good deed of the month. You seem like a prime candidate for Tab Stash. Does the same but better than Tab Groups. Check it out. You might like it.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-stash/

    Let me know, love it or hate it. Cheers.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Do you know if there's a similar extension that allows you to export/import the tabs in some text format rather than saving to bookmarks? I'm currently using Tab Season Manager, but it takes way too many steps to accomplish this.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I did not know that, thanks. The reason I use Tab Stash is because I can use my Nextcloud instance to move the tabs/bookmarks automatically. As for privacy reasons I do not use FF sync.

    Moving a file seems like more work and more moving parts as I use multiple machines and different OS'es on the same machines.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Have you heard of bookmarks? There's a bookmark toolbar, that could look almost exactly the same if you want. Including folders with sub-folders, etc.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    So you're saying that pressing 2 on screen buttons, then closing a page is a better solution than creating a group then dragging in and out whatever you need? Sure, I use the bookmarks bar too, but it's not for stuff I'll remove after a while, those are perminent, but tab groups are generally for stuff you will eventually close, but wantto sort in the meantime to make it more convenient.

    If you don't have a use for it, fair enough, I don't either, but it is a genuinely useful feature for some that can't be replaced by more clicks.

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