Seeking your feedback on Tab Groups

[gharp]

Hi all – I’m Gabriel, on the Firefox team.

We launched launched Tag Groups half a year ago, and since then we have introduced a number of improvements based on your feedback. You can read more in our starting guide (my personal favorite: previewing tab group contents by hovering). Now that the feature has been in your hands for a while, we would welcome your input on what comes next! 

As we explore future enhancements, we are especially interested to hear your perspective on two areas: 

• Improving the usefulness of saved tab groups. How are you using saved tab groups? What benefits do they bring to your workflow compared to bookmarks (and bookmark folders)? How can we improve the experience? For example, we know there is a strong interest in being able to sync tab groups.
• Workspaces. Some of you have requested a way to separate contexts by creating workspaces – for instance, sets of tabs and tab groups that are entirely isolated from each other, yet remain available within a single browser window. We are eager to learn more about your workspace use cases and where context separation via window management, profiles, and/or containers doesn’t meet your workflow needs. And is collaboration with others an important feature of workspaces for you? 

Thanks in advance!

[DazedNConfused]

I would like to be able to pin them. As well as a toggle option for the following behaviour:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1530303

Everything else is perfect.

[gharp]

Thanks @DazedNConfused. Pinning tab groups makes sense. For the other behavior you mentioned ("Is it possible to automatically collapse a group after switching to another group?"), are you essentially asking for a setting that would keep only one tab group open at a time? When that setting is enabled, tab groups would collapse automatically when you open or navigate to a different tab group. Is that right?

[DazedNConfused]

Yes! You understood it perfectly, should I expect this kind of addition in the next update?

[gharp]

Thanks for confirming, @DazedNConfused . We are gathering feedback such as this over the coming weeks as we plan for improvements to make in 2026. In short: I wouldn't expect this change in the next update, but we will be sure to share more details as we move forward with changes. 

[yermulnik]

Plus one to tab groups pinning 👍

[JTelcontar]

Another plus 1 for tab group pinning! Tab groups aren't at all useful for me until I can pin haha.

[johemius]

This is a post I made on the forum about 6 months ago (https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/keyboard-shortcut-to-open-a-new-adjacent-tab-within-group/idi-p...), but I'd still love to see this feature added to Firefox, preferably as an additional, customizable keyboard shortcut.

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In light of the recently-added tab groups feature, one feature which I think would be really welcome would be a keyboard shortcut (similar to Ctrl + T) which opens a new tab directly to the right of the current tab, in the same group as the currently-active tab.

Before I switched from Chrome to Firefox, I was an avid user of the "New Adjacent Tab" extension, which implemented this behaviour. There is a similar add-on for Firefox ("Open Adjacent New Tab") but it does not perfectly replicate the behaviour of the Chrome extension when the currently-selected tab is the rightmost tab in its group. I think this would be a helpful keyboard shortcut to have in Firefox for easier tab management, particularly for creating and managing tabs within groups.

[Kvin]

Hi, thank you for the tab grouping feature! It's very convenient.

I'm glad you're considering workspaces as a feature for Firefox!

I want workspaces in one window.
I don't like the implementation in Edge, where they are in different windows.

I want to separate sets of tabs, for example
Workspace 1, these are YouTube tabs
Workspace 2, these are Reddit tabs

As for improvements to workspaces, I would like to have a sleep option for sets of tabs and auto add tabs to workspaces, like in Vivaldi.

And I would like to see the following improvements to tab grouping

The ability to pin tabs in groups so that they take up less space in the groups
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/pin-tabs-inside-a-tab-group/idi-p/95228

Option to automatically group tabs by domain, link, or site name
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/automatic-grouping-for-same-site-tabs/idi-p/54326#U54326

Subgroups so that additional groups can be created within groups
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/sub-tab-groups/idi-p/94890

Grouping tabs and workspaces for the mobile version of Firefox as well

[jack123]

Hey Gabriel, thanks for the update on Tab Groups! Previewing by hovering sounds super useful. On a totally different note, have you ever wondered which Hogwarts house you'd be in? It's fun to test web and see what the results say about your personality, haha!

[Reitei17]

I just need a plus button beside the group tab name to add new tab on that group. just faster and easier to access. rather than click right and click new tab in group. especially in vertical tab mode.

[whoami730]

Plus ctrl+t should default to new tab in the group, instead of new tab somewhere else.

[elzar]

"And is collaboration with others an important feature of workspaces for you? "

What's with this weirdly leading question? I'm sensing that collaboration features are something management wants and not something users have ever asked for. It's like you're saying, "surely you want this, right? Right? Please want this so we can work on it"

How about fixing the years old tab grouping issues on GitHub instead of pretending they don't exist. This double speak is weird and until today I had no idea Mozilla was run like such a mess.

[tomosu]

Sometimes, I have a bunch of tabs in a tab group which makes collapsing that group tedious as I need to hold the left horizontal scroll button to expose the tab group icon to collapse it.

[falolaf]

This is how I would use workspaces. 

A workspace is opened in its own window and might consist of a set of tab groups, a flat list of tabs, or both. Two different workspaces might have the same type of tab groups. I.e., two different workspaces can have tab groups with same name and purpose but those tab groups does not share tabs. I guess one could look at workspaces as tab groups with subgroups.
For example I might have:

• Workspace A(Project A)
  • Project documentation
  • Bug reports
  • Code reviews
  • Document reviews
    
    
• Workspace B(Project B)
  • Project documentation
  • Bug reports
  • Code reviews
  • Document reviews

Today I try to mimic this by having different set of tab groups in separate windows. This is not optimal in any way as currently it is not possible to name a window, which makes it difficult to navigate among open windows. And when a window is closed it might be tricky to find this specific window in the recently closed window list, after a week or two. I have also noticed now and then that a closed window is not in the list of recently closed windows. (Likely a bug that I should report.) I have increased the number of windows to keep in that list but sometimes a temporary window is added to that list, which I am not really interested to have in the list.

As tab groups are global I have to name the same type of tab group with the task in its name. By doing this the list of available tab groups grow large rather qickly.

Currently I have no need to collaborate with anyone else. It would be really great to be able to sync the workspaces though.

Having different profiles for different tasks would not work due to that it is only possible to login to a specific Mozilla account in one profile, as far as I remember. Syncing would not work in this case.

Tab groups with sub groups would likely work fine for me to begin with.