browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled not working after setting browser.tabs.groups.enabled to true, hover preview has to be set to false to work again (at least this was my scenario).
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03-20-2025 10:49 PM - edited 03-20-2025 11:27 PM
Today I learned about browser.tabs.groups.enabled which I was very excited to use as did not know about it and relied on other extensions. However, something strange happened - I always hover over the tabs to preview since I have so many tabs open and after turning the tab grouping on, the tab hover preview would not appear.
So I check in the about:config to see if browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled was true, which it was... but the preview was not working. I tried the first thing on my mind, to set it to false, and tried again - it worked.
I'd wish that new users wouldn't have to try and find browser.tabs.groups.enabled and activate as it was set to false as default in my case and additionally set browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled to false to get it to work again for better UX (user experience). Hope this gets resolved soon.
Edit: I am trying out Firefox Nightly which I never knew about until today after looking at other community discussions and exploring. Everything that I talked about in this post is addressed in Nightly and I wish I could just delete this post 😅. Nightly is very nice.

