04-16-2024 12:09 PM
Hey,
First of all, I love all of the new additions from Mozilla! New Thunderbird, K9 and Firefox Android add-ons are all amazing! And I would like to use Firefox instead of Ferdium. As Fredium is basically a browser anyway.
But I noticed that there are multiple tab groups / workspaces ideas out there so I wanted to summary them:
Name | Summary |
(1) Workspaces a la Opera | 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. |
(2) Persistent Tab Groups / Workspaces | Design |
(3) Addon Request - Firefox Workspaces | That is, I want to be able to create named sets of windows and tabs and switch quickly between them. I work on a number of projects both personal and for work that involve a large number of tabs across multiple windows. I’d like to be able to compartmentalize these. There are plenty of add-ons that let you save a window’s tabs as a named group, then restore it later, but that’s not good enough. |
Now all of these I mostly agree with, personally. The main focus is the ability to simply save and load tab sets.
Bare-bones feature list:
Comprehensive feature list:
Unresolved questions:
I personally, would be quite happy with the bare-bones feature set. I just need a button I can punch which will open a set of some tabs I set somewhere.
The closest addon I found are Simple Tab Groups, which while somewhat satisfactory for my usecase, albeit they don't have the declarative configuration and a faster way to switch workspaces, but I'll go with that for now.
05-07-2024 12:51 PM
Throwing another into the mix, would love to know what you think as someone who's given this a good amount of consideration already:
07-14-2024 12:03 AM
Edge, Opera and Vivaldi have workspaces! would really like them in Firefox too.
07-17-2024 04:41 PM
As someone who uses Firefox at work, a feature like this would be very useful to me. At least as an evolution of container tabs. I work with a client that uses two different Microsoft accounts for SSO purposes (including Teams). Container tabs let me use the same browser window. But I find opening tabs (especially during the signin process) can be finicky. If groups could be implemented better or the feature evolved, it would be killer for me.