Help shape the future of Tab Groups in Firefox!

[dsandoz]

Hello everyone,

My name is Devin Sandoz and I’m a product marketing manager at Mozilla. @ssmagula is the product manager. I'm posting on behalf of the Tab Groups team who are working to help you be more productive and happy when using Firefox. We want to thank you for all your helpful feedback in Mozilla Connect and invite you to help us improve Tab Groups before a wider release. 

What are Tab Groups?

Tab Groups will help you organize your tabs. Whether you keep your tab bar tidy with just a few tabs or you hoard thousands of tabs, Tab Groups will make it easier than ever to switch between and re-find tabs and tasks—all while maintaining the privacy of Firefox. Say you’re planning a vacation over spring break. A group will help you to keep all your flight searches, lodging options, local restaurants in one easy to re-find place.

Join the Firefox Tab Groups Preview

1. Download Firefox Beta — Tap the Download button, follow the instructions to install, and then launch Firefox Beta. If you already have Beta installed, update to the latest version
2. Use tab groups for all your browser tasks
3. Share your feedback, comments, questions, possible bugs, and ideas for the future in this thread. Your feedback will be valuable as we work through known issues and discover new issues.

Tab groups in action

Tab groups help you stay organized and focused

Creating groups

Once fully released, there will be a helpful call-out explaining how to create groups. To create a group drag a tab on top of another tab and pause until you see a highlighted drop area, then release it. Or right-click any tab and select Add tab to group. Next you can name it. For example, you might want to create a group called News. Add news sites by dragging them into any expanded group. When you’re done catching up on the news, select “Save and close group” so you can remove it from your tab bar and re-open the group the next day. All your groups—open and closed—are always available via the “list all tabs menu” (a downward-facing caret at the right of the tab bar)—even if you close a window or restart, no account needed. 

Known issues

Our team is working hard to make Firefox Tab Groups the best they can be, and we thank you for your help and patience as we discover and smooth out any rough edges.

Faster, better, easier

At Firefox Tab Groups are just part of a larger effort to improve browser productivity. Our designers and developers are creating new tools to improve productivity and efficiency including a sidebar with vertical tabs, better profiles. Our goal is to help you achieve more with less effort so that you can focus on your spring break vacation, and not on your tabs or the browser.

We can't wait for you to try Tab Groups so you can tell us what you think!

[Ramouz]

Thanks. I understand I can do it manually but why though? They said they launched it in this version so it should be working on mine. I prefer keeping things default. I'm really wondering if it's still "rolling out".

[Hrrgh]

Just started using tab groups yesterday and the AI features of it and here are my hopes and dreams with regards to its UI and usability thus far:

- In horizontal tab mode, tab groups really need to not be able to yeet their group name off screen when opened. The furthest open tab group to the left needs to always be visible on the far left otherwise everyone'll have to start scrolling left and right if the group is tab heavy enough:

• Open tabs that aren't part of the group but are to the group's right will disappear off to the right.
• The title of the tab group will disappear off to the left.
• Both things can happen at the same time.

- In private browsing, it seems the auto-generated tab names and recommendations for intelligently consolidating tabs into a group do not exist. I'm not sure how either would conflict with the privacy goals of private browsing and frankly, missing those makes the whole experience a little clunkier. If Firefox is training itself under normal operation, maybe have it act like it's a fresh install in private browsing or something?

- More colours for the groups, please. Perhaps lift from those Colourways Mozilla had going some time back to make two or three variants of the same colour visually different (dark text/dark border, light text/light border, etc) or have an auto-colour option that lifts from the colour that clips into the address bar from the tab used to create the group.

Been enjoying them so far and looking forward to how they turn out.

[just_average]

Today I used the Tab Groups feature for the first time, made multiple groups and then went to save these groups (which should automatically be saved imo, and If done manually, I shouldn't be forced to 'save and close'...just 'save' if I want).

Anyway, I restarted Firefox to test and see if my groups would still be there after 'saving and closing' groups....and they are not there. Unless there is another hidden spot for them that I'm not seeing, they are gone (I already checked the little downward-facing caret the top right where groups were before).

So, as of now, Firefox Tab Groups is useless to me until that issue is fixed.

 I'm using Mozilla Firefox Snap (version 137.0.2).

[epigramx]

They should be able to be saved, in the regular bookmarks way, or another similar way for them.

I meant the layout of multiple groups opened at the same time, not just saving them individually.

[PJ6]

My expectation was to have tab groups over the normal tabs, with one selectable at a time. F2 or double-click to rename, drag to reorder, and a + symbol to add a new group. What we have now is an accordion which is maybe OK for mobile but a poor choice for desktop.

[AlphaModder]

Have been using this feature for just a day so far and I'm very happy with it, it's a huge improvement to tab organization. However, I can already see a few quality-of-life changes that would definitely improve my experience:

• Show closed tab groups in the Add Tab to Group menu. If selected, the tab is added to that group and closed.
• Add "Save and close group" to context menu of groups in the Recent tab groups / Tab groups menu. Sometimes it's nice not to have to track down the group in the tab bar to close it.
• Provide an option for windows to display the name of the current tab group as their title, rather than the title of the current tab. This helps with finding the right window among several in the taskbar.

[Xenu007]

Why can't I add a new tab to an existing tab group with drag and drop? It's more functional to create a bookmark folder instead. Then I can add related content as I research.

[Jon]

Thanks for the feedback! And just to be clear, you want to be able to add a tab via drag and drop to a collapsed tab group?

[Xenu007]

Yes. Seems like a needless extra step to open a group to add to it. If I feel I made a mistake, I can always open the group afterward to verify the page is in the correct group.

[Jon]

You're right! This is coming and will land in Firefox 141.

[BillH]

The new tab functionality with vertical and grouping abilities are much appreciated - thank you.

Please consider the following usability tweaks:

• Support dragging 1 or more tabs to a collapsed tab group (alternative to using right-click "Add Tab to Group").
• Do not auto-expand a tab group when 1 or more tabs have been added to the group.
• Change "Delete group" to "Close group". "Close" sounds more natural with tabs than "delete".

[Coolwaters]

• Support dragging 1 or more... +1
• Do not auto-expand a tab group when 1 or more tabs have been added to the group. +1
• Re change 'Delete group' to 'Change group': If I close a tab group I expect to be able to re-open it. If I delete a tab group, I expect that tab group to no longer be available. 'Delete tab group' describes the current implementation better than 'Close tab group'. -1

[clofresh]

I love the new tab groups, especially in combination with tab containers. Can you make it so that "new tab" opens the new tab in the same tab group and tab container as your current tab? It's annoying to have to keep putting new tabs into the tab group I'm working in.

[Xenu007]

More suggestions: 1) I already have 25 tab groups, but when I right-click on a tab, the drop-down list of available groups is not alphabetized, which makes it difficult to see if I already have a group or should create a new one. Easy to create a duplicate group by mistake if you are working quickly. 2) Also, when you have 25 tab groups stretched along the the top of the browser, it would be nice to be able to select them all together and be able to alphabetize them left to right with one command or click. Currently, you have to manually alphabetize them one by one.

[davidcamperos]

Thanks for this feature. I use it a lot along with the vertical tabs.

I'd like to open a new tab inside of a group instead of needing to drag the new tab into a group. Similar to when I open a link in a new tab being in a group.

A new tab icon next to the group name could work. Perhaps the new tab shortcut could be attached to the group too.

[snarlferb]

I dont know if there a specific conversation happening about the experimental Ai feature enabled in grouped tabs, but i would like to point out the delicate nature of the tabs and grouped tabs, and how Ai doesnt need to be a feature that goes through looking for a consolidated title of a given tabs. I would give you many reasons, but I cant take the amount of ignorant ppl who dont have a clue about anything. Alls ill say is, grouped tabs is a direction towards having more active tabs, and then, you have the added bonus of Ai processing titles, its a bit ridiculous. The utility of tabs is that they arent a fixed window: You can move them around, swap them, put them in different positions, group them, good... That doesnt mean they need to have titles, not at all, the opposite. They should just be grouped tabs. Therefore, Ai doesnt need to name them. Ai shouldnt be builtin at all. Ai should be an extension, thats the point of Ai really.

[keenan]

I'm on the latest version (138.0.1) but don't have the option to create tab groups. On my work laptop I do, but on my personal laptop I don't. Why is this? The tab groups docs said that this feature would be out for everyone by May 8th.

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

Tab groups https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups

According to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1509948#answer-1730727

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Tab Groups feature has shipped to 100% users as per yesterday. However, people who have telemetry turned off may not see it yet, but the team is going to fix this on a dot release planned for next week.

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An subject https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/can-t-create-tab-groups/m-p/95525

[keenan]

Thanks for the info, I guess it'll be fixed soon

[DavidE1]

I'm running v138.0.1, it's 5/15/25 and I still do not have the Tab Groups function.  Is a fix still in the works?  Thanks

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

Tab groups https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups

Do you practice, are you under Studies? https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/can-t-create-tab-groups/m-p/95456/highlight/true#M37266 by way of illustration.

If not, you are not under study.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/help-shape-the-future-of-tab-groups-in-firefox/m-p/95970/... with Firefox 138.0.3, the preference, browser.tabs.groups.enabled is true, by default.

For information purposes.
1 - Go to Configuration Editor for Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox
2 - Enter a search term browser.tabs.groups.enabled, and ckeck if, true.

[Coolwaters]

Homepage and new windows: I would like to be able to display a tab group on startup and when opening new windows. I've set up Firefox to display the pages I use on a regular basis on startup. I don't necessarily need to see all the tabs throughout the day but if I could set up selected tab groups to be displayed at startup, they would only be a click away.

I suppose pinning tab groups would give a similar outcome but I've always found pinning to be flaky so I no longer use the feature. It's possible it has become more robust since I last used it.

PS: The new implementation of tab groups is working well so far. I like it.

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/138.0.3/releasenotes
In, Complete list of changes for this release, I have seen https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1961226

[xaddict]

I like the new tab groups but have found some annoyances (Firefox Developer Edition 139.0b7 (aarch64)) :

• When using vertical tabs with the hover expand, some things jump around. I would like to see the expanding more as a mask expanding instead of jumping between two views
• When adding a tab to a group it automatically opens that group AND jumps to that tab. That makes cleaning up your tabs pretty hard since everything is always expanding and switching.
• Setting a monochrome icon for a tab group would allow for a visual where there are not just capital letters in colored boxes which would help with identifying groups since emoji just muddy up the view.
• Colors in the settings pop-up for a group aren't the colors used in dark mode.

[xaddict]

Just found out there is a "Save and close group" option that does nothing except close the group?

[Vladimir1]

This is a very cool feature and I was happy to use it but... for the first time, I noticed a window disappeared and it wasn't in the history of the recently closed windows. So these tabs I carefully saved for later use are gone.

[Chri5]

I'm hoping you are still taking suggestions on how to improve tab groups, now that it's officially released to everyone.  I have had to disabled tab groups using about:config, because it was driving me crazy:  Nearly every time I dragged & dropped a tab, Firefox would create a tab group.  I know why it did that, but it's muscle memory that I cannot change (and I wasn't looking closely at the tabs to notice any visual indication it would create a group). 

I would like to use tab groups, but just disable the "dropping one tab on another will create a group" functionality (or at least be required to perform a follow-up click to confirm/deny that I want a group to be created).

[PumpkinDuke]

Tab group sensitivity feels too high. Every time I slightly move a tab it'll group. This also means that taking them out of the group becomes a domino situation where the tab that gets ungrouped keeps making new groups.

[OG]

I have tested the latest nightly and stable version as of 16th of May 2025

Here is my feedback based on the new experience:

I think second tab bar similar to Vivaldi approach is more ideal for me

group of tabs:

Second tab bar when you click on a tab group and there is a plus button for the new tab groups: ( I hate that in Vivaldi you can't assign an icon, a color, or name a tab group but I love that there is visual representation of how many tabs are in the tab group, check the image below

When the cursor hover over a tab group it shows thumbnail for all tabs in the group and if you click on one of them it will take you directly to that tab in the tab group

giving option for two level tab bars and an accordion style is good to serve those who prefer Chrome's approach

You can also pin tab groups, THAT IS HUGE! I really need this, I could pin several messaging services and it will not occupy too much horizontal space. Also, you can view and click on tabs in a pinned tab group when you hover the mouse cursor over it.

here is how it looks after you open one of the pinned group tabs:

profiles:  for each user or work vs personal

workspaces: I want separate a school vs personal vs shopping etc

tab groups: in shopping I would have a group for different products I am researching

multiaccount container: can't live without it, it is for different account of the same website and privacy

[D0m1n1c]

First step was tabs groups in Firefox Desktop. But on Android, Firefox is not my default browser for one missing feature: tabs groups ! Yes there are collections. But I mean tabs grouping like Chromium browsers.

Please makes it happen 🙂🙏

[Rhialto]

So glad Tab Groups are now in Firefox!

I've made an addon to keep track of some stats about all the Tabs and new Tab Groups.

It works only with v139.0 and above. I needed this and I thought maybe a few will also enjoy it. Grab it here.

[LunarWatcher]

I noticed a [distinct lack of keyboard shortcuts](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly) for working with tab groups. At the very least, I'd expect:

• A way to make new tab groups (probably chained with tab selection, which is already a thing)
• A way to open new tabs in the current tab group[^1]. Currently, the only alternative is ctrl-t, then adding it manually to the tab group in some way
• A way to add existing tabs to a tab group
• A way to save and close entire tab groups, and a shortcut for opening "manage tab group"

If the keyboard shortcuts do exist, they need to be documented somewhere, at the very least on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups if early access means shortcuts don't go on the main shortcuts page

[^1]: Potentially also an option to modify the default behaviour of <ctrl-t>, but having both "open in current tab group" and "open in no tab group" is necessary. I don't personally care if ctrl-t is changed or changeable, but having both as an option makes it easier to work with tab groups with the keyboard

[nemolivier]

I second this. Tabs group are great but need some polishing to use them easily. 

• an « open link in tab group » right click option / shortcut (Atl+Click or something)
• an auto-group feature (maybe as an extension) base on url regexp like this extension : https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tab-groups-extension/nplimhmoanghlebhdiboeellhgmgommi

Thanks a lot for adding tab group I’ve been waiting them for so long…

[Lovelymafia]

> an « open link in tab group » right click option / shortcut (Atl+Click or something)

fyi, you can drag & drop any link or bookmark into a group 

> an auto-group feature (maybe as an extension) base on url regexp like this extension :

 - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/auto-tab-groups/ 
 - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/auto-tab-grouping-v1/ 

[fm-sys]

I'm using Firefox and really love the new tab group addition!

However, it is a real pain that I need to move tabs into groups manually. I would expect that strg+t (or a different shortcut) opens a new tab inside the group I'm currently in. From time to time I want to open a new tab outside the group though, so there needs to be the possibility to do both operations without the need to change something in the settings.

Another feature I'm missing are "workspaces", the possibility to switch between different sets of tabs easily.

Use case:

- Have workspaces "Work", "University" and "Private".

- In workspace "Private", have Tab groups "next vacation", "MTB", "my small coding project", ...

=> A bit like nested Tab Groups (which would also be very cool), however not as a huge tree view but as a combo box to select the workspace which should be loaded into the tab bar to keep the tab bar as clean as possible

[motang]

Not sure if it is already there, if so I didn't see it. But ability to access tab groups from another computer similar to how we can do that with tabs.

[JSawtelle]

I like to operate Firefox with several dozen of my favorite tabs open, so I click on the "use current pages as homepage" option under firefox settings to keep these favorites current.  I also wanted to use your new tab groups.  So after I recently established my new collection of tab groups I wanted to update my Firefox homepage of open tabs, however I can no longer open Firefox settings to do this from the upper right menu icon.  How do I update Firefox homepage since settings no longer functions?

[x2lss]

I found this article while looking for a way to turn off the deeply annoying way it automatically groups tabs WITHOUT ME WANTING THEM TO BE GROUPED. I love grouping tabs ONLY when I initiate it out of my own volition. This feature should be off by default and definitely not automatic. I have my own way of keeping tabs organized so it's extremely off-putting to have them be lumped together or even disappear under a group thing when I wasn't even trying to organize anything - my tabs just disappeared and I had to hunt around trying to figure out where they went. Confusing and makes me regret switching from Chrome to Firefox.

EDIT: Now I'm trying to drag my tabs back out of the group and delete the group and I can't even find a way to do that without closing the tab, but I'm currently working on something in that tab so **bleep** me I guess.

[hoggys2much1]

Mate Mozilla seems hell bent in destroying Firefox.

Because of all the "improvements" (note extreme sarcasm) they have done to Firefox over the years they are now languishing in a very lowly FOURTH place and getting their ass handed to them by Chrome, Edge and Safari. Yeah you read that right more people would rather use Edge than Firefox.

Every time they have added "some new and improved" feature to Firefox I am finding myself going to Yahoo and finding away to turn it off and going into about:config to turn it off.

I like my tabs along the top of the page where I can see them and the little drop down box that you get when you put your mouse over them. I do not want to put them into some stupid group where I can't see them.

I first came across these stupid moronic tab groups on Sunday when I tried moving some tabs about and I was instantly on Yahoo looking for away to turn them off.

I am not alone in not wanting them. I came across this fantastic blog: https://mercurie.blogspot.com/2025/05/how-to-disable-tab-groups-on-firefox.html

And there are a lot of us who are getting sick to death and to the back teeth of Mozilla's "take it", "like it" and "lump it" attitude that they have and forcing their junk down our throats without giving any of us that do not like them an easy way to disable them without needing to go into about:config.

I noticed that my last post to the two staff members here was deleted without reply because they can't take critisism of the junk they are giving us.

I am telling you right now if I could have all the add-ons I have on Firefox in Edge I would use that instead of this miserable excuse for a browser.

I am getting sick to death of having to go into about:config to turn off every new feature they have added to FIrefox. So far I have turned off those pathetic moronic chatbots, pockets, screengrabs and numerous others I cant remember now.

I have been using Firefox since the utterly excellent Firefox 3 (one of the best browsers ever) and it saddens me to see what has happened to Firefox over the years.

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/tab-groups/m-p/96381#M37626
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/help-shape-the-future-of-tab-groups-in-firefox/m-p/96350#...

An subject https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1506304

It seems that only acting on browser.tabs.groups.enabled is sufficient, what do you think?.