Workspaces à la Opera

[joshg253]

Please implement Workspaces in the way that current Opera browsers have. It's an incredibly slick way to compartmentalize things, which is super helpful for neurodivergents like myself. I'm currently utilizing separate/different browsers to achieve similar.

Basically a vertical list of icons for each Workspace on the side (a button in the toolbar with a dropdown to select Workspaces would suffice), that instantly switch to all the Tabs open in a given Workspace and hides everything else. Pinned Tabs stay with each Workspace. Tab Groups can exist within a Workspace.

I've tried all the "similar" Firefox addons people suggested throughout the tubes, but as Prince said, "Nothing Compares 2 U".

• They all seem to reload tabs when you switch, which is not fast and therefore not slick. 🙂
  • Some are worse, you have to manually save a "session" and then it'll reload all the tabs in the session when you switch. Not slick.
• They all seem to (purposefully) show Pinned Tabs regardless of Workspace.
  • Perhaps ~Globally-Pinned Tabs that always show regardless of Workspace selected could be useful for others, but unnecessary for me at the moment.
• Some similar ideas "containerize" each ~workspace, which requires you to log into each site in each Workspace separately -- not what I want. I want all my stuff accessible from each Workspace. My Work & Home identities are on separate computers.
  • A "container" feature is different than this request but I think they could work together. E.g. create a Workspace, choose an identity/account/etc. for it. Outside the scope of this request.

E.g. I have:

1. A Main Workspace with my main email + tasks + feed reader pinned, then use that area for general browsing (i.e. normal life).
2. A Gaming Workspace with maps & stuff for games I'm currently playing.
3. A Dev Workspace with all my Dev-related stuff (source control sites, another email account, etc.).
4. Temporary Workspaces for when rabbit holes go too deep...
5. Etc.

I'd likely make even more use of them if they were in my preferred browser. (fanboi since Phoenix🔥🦅)

No idea how this would translate in mobile, not concerned with that for the time being. Desktop Firefox on Windows/Linux.

Also not concerned with being able to sync Workspaces across browsers -- I think we can already see open tabs in other browsers sync'd to our Firefox accounts, good enough for me.

[Jon]

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

[malevolent]

I think so a basic feature have been asked during 3 years and Firefox devs are not even answering to us, we can positively say it's not in their roadmap.

With all the pity in my heart, I think it's time to try a browser who has this feature, which I think is so basic nowadays.

[rp21buzz]

Folks Found a firefox based browser Florp that has this feature. it is open-source too.

[Simone-P]

I have been a happy Firefox user for many years, supporting the values behind this project.

But few years ago I switched to Opera mainly because of workspaces: that radically improve my usage of the browser, letting me switch with just one click between various aspects of my daily life: work, free time, activism, home, etc.

Like many other users, now and then I come here to see if Firefox implemented this feature but every time I leave disappointed and go back to Opera.

This is the only thing that keeps me to switch back to Firefox. 😢

[_ypow_]

@rp21buzzYeah, I saw that somebody already said that in the comments. I switched to it and use it now as the default browser. The only problem is that sometimes it freezes and resets all workspaces. It drives me crazy because it happens quite often when I close the browser. It is a compelling feature because it has a separate session for each of them which is very nice because you can log in to different emails and other things that you need to have in the different session