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!

[ffuser196878647]

I'm not a fan of the down chevron to find the groups. Took me a while to find that. Funnily if you ignore the grouping the behavior of the browser isn't that much different from without grouping, if you ignore it then it's just a color line under the page tab titles. I'd like a feature to compress the tab title display. I.e. reduce every tab to just an icon then have a drop down to select which one. That way I can group and mostly forget because the tabs aren't taking up the screen.

[makkus]

Will we be able to sync Tab Groups across devices?

[Rhialto]

Repairing firefox will bring back Tabs but not Tab Groups! Please fix ASAP!

[Vermithion]

Would love to be able to choose as many colors as I'd like for different tab groups. For example, color picking from a color wheel or something similar would be nice.

[voyage200]

I closed my tabs today, thinking that Tab Groups were saved in the cloud like in Chrome, but Firefox encountered issues when restoring my browsing session. Since I use Tab Groups to organize my work, I lost my progress and now have to slowly rebuild my three Tab Groups from the history, which is particularly troublesome.

I hope that, in addition to the current Firefox cloud services, multi-device cloud synchronization for Tab Groups ( similar to Google Chrome's )can be added.

[Bushibot]

For the love of god, add TAB GROUP data to CLOUD sync. Right now there is no way to move out of nightly with your groups! This is so bad, group are a critical work flow item they have to be saved and protected and managed across all modern FF versions!

[Disearned]

This might be something small, but when I close a tab group, even when I'm using a tab inside that group, it brings me either to another tab group that's open or opens a new tab if there's no other tabs to go to. It isn't the worst but I would like to sometimes have the groups closed while using a tab inside that group, not have it open the entire time. Minimizes the chance for me to get distracted from another tab inside that group if I need to focus.

All the other browsers I've used had that and it was nice, always let me keep things minimal and clean. Not sure if anyone else talked about this but it would be a great feature. Opening a new tab when all groups are closed doesn't make sense in my opinion, and it would be a great quality-of-life feature to allow people to stay on a tab when they close the group they're currently using.

Like I said, it's probably small, but it's something I got used to and would like to have in Firefox, as I love the browser.

[noor101]

I’d love to see these features added as well! I used Vivaldi Browser briefly a while back, and ever since then, I’ve wished that tab stacking was available in other browsers too. It’s such a useful way to stay organized.

[Kipbot]

I absolutely love this feature and want to encourage it.  Currently, I work on a Linux machine and a Macbook, but the tab groups don't show up on Linux.  When this is out of beta/testing phases, I'm in!