Native Tab Grouping / More Customizable Tab bar

[Vinci480]

I'm personally a heavy tab user but have always wondered why there is almost no support for tab grouping or customization in the native tab bar in Firefox.

I think making it able to group like Google Chrome does for example or at least giving more access for extensions and add-ons would significantly improve the UI in that regard.

[EddySoeparmin]

Yes, I think grouping is essential for modern browser this day. I'm a regular Google Chrome user, and grouping several tabs into one help me to customize of how and where I browse. I use Firefox mainly for reading where it's easily open a new page when clicking on a hyperlink where Chrome lacks.

Please add Grouping tabs in Firefox.

[00prometheus]

I mentioned this as an idea of it's own, but I wanted to comment here as well.

I have huge numbers of tabs open (often more than 50, or even 100). It isn't because I am working on an extremely complex thing that needs huge numbers of tabs, it is because I leave tabs open that I might want to come back to later. That means it isn't one particular thing I am working on, there are tabs from maybe 10-20 different subjects, going far back in time, that I still have open because I think will come back to them later. Obviously this is really what bookmarks are meant for and the expected behaviour is that I bookmark what I want to return to and close those tabs. However, I am not good at housekeeping and creating bookmarks (or even just opening them) is annoying. So I end up with masses of tabs. To me, grouping tabs in the tab bar would just take even more space in my tab bar! What I need is a whole directory structure of different tab groups from a drop-down. There needs to be comprehensive tools to move tabs between groups it needs to be near instantaneous to switch between the groups as well. I also need to have different tab groups in different windows and because I often work on several things at once.

A good solution would be to integrate tab groups and bookmark folders. A tab group could simply be a view of a bookmark folder. Switching what bookmark folder I view is the same as switching tab groups. It needs to be fast though, si it needs to cache favicons and tab title and even thumbnail, because when you have many tabs open, favicons and thumbnails matter. Then all the synchronization, backup and organizational tools for bookmarks can be used for my tab groups!

[sheaf]

@00prometheusI have a similar workflow (hundreds of open tabs at a time, with different topic groups), which I am attempting to migrate from Chrome.

Personally, I like to reserve bookmarks for regularly visited sites, and use something like Session Buddy (Tab Session Manager on FF) to archive my open windows every couple of weeks; I tend to have ~500-1000 open tabs to archive each time.

Building on your suggestion, it could be possible to simply use a dedicated folder in 'Bookmarks Menu' of the Bookmarks manager as the archive destination. Unfortunately the current method for archiving all open windows is a little hacky.

An example directory structure, following my workflow:

• All Bookmarks
  • Bookmarks Menu
    •  Archives
      • 11.2.24
        • tabgroup1
          • site1
          • site2
        • tabgroup2
          • site3
        • tabgroup3
          • site4
          • site5

I think your suggestion on an improved 'view' for tab groups would be better targeted at 'Firefox View' (the file cabinet icon in the top left), rather than the bookmarks manager; for example, tab groups could be displayed as subdivisions of each window. Additionally, a potential 'reorganization' feature (dragging tabs to other groups/windows) makes the most sense from that page. However, I agree more could be done to allow for mass bookmarking from the Firefox View page.

[sohrob76]

It's been over 18 months since this request was made and despite thousands of people boosting the request we still don't have grouped tabs. Is it that big of a technical hurdle or is this something Firefox is still on the fence about?

[Jon]

@sohrob76 the current idea status is "In development" as we have a team working on this feature right now. Stay tuned in this thread - we'll be sharing more updates soon.

[Ramouz]

Waiting for Tab Groups for many many years now. Vivaldi has had it since about 2015. Opera before it. Edge has a really good one.

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[GlenDoza8765]

Please make sure that whatever solution Mozilla develops for tab grouping that it works with tab containers as well. I am currently using the Container Tab Groups extension for this but if there was a native solution with a better UX I would switch.