pin tabs inside a tab group

[nowyet]

If you pin a tab inside a tab group that tab leaves the group and appears like normal left on the tab bar.

Just pining tabs inside tab groups would be very lovely and awesome!

Btw: pining tab groups would be lovely aswell!

[Jon]

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[Jon]

@nowyet heads up, pinning tab groups has been suggested here: Pin Tab Groups 

Feel free to check out that thread, give it kudos (kudos = votes), and add your input 🙌

[Jon]

@nowyet pinning tabs within a tab group is interesting and has been discussed internally. Do you mind me asking more about your specific use case... Is the goal to remind yourself "these are tabs or groups that I should not close"? Or is it more like "I move things around so much, I need important items to be fixed in position"? Or prioritizing tabs linked to a specific task? Or something else?

Thanks!

[myspace]

+1

[Googlava]

Please its very needed to pin inside the groups. Thanks

[Rhialto]

Same, if I'm inside a group I'd like to be able to pin a tab inside that group so it goes on the left and fixed inside that group.

[mk_five]

@Jon 

To chime in on your note about the use case for pinning tabs within groups --

Let's say you have a tab group for buying a bicycle on Facebook Marketplace.

• A) You have a few key searches as pinned tabs -- "All hybrid bikes in my area" "Bikes within 100 miles but only XYZ specific models", etc. Every day or two you can come and refresh those search pages.
• B) You then have many NON-pinned listings tabs that you've opened up and are evaluating. Some you keep opened because you're considering them, or asking Qs to the seller. But these are NOT pinned.
• C) When you're done your research for the day, you can collapse the group. When you return the next day to continue the project, its easily organized with your pinned 'anchor' pages clearly at the front and persistent, and then you have the child pages still around that you had not yet closed or acted upon.

Another flow for this is if you are doing a coding project. You might have your generative AI chat and the coding page (e.g. a Jupyter Notebook) pinned at the front. But all the research pages and lookups and such you are doing are regular pages within that same group. Again -- easy to collapse when you're not focused on this project, and then available to expand again when you're ready to dive in, and the 'main entities' of that effort are pinned prominently apart from the transient stuff.

Thanks!!

[Jon]

Thanks @mk_five - super helpful insights here! 

[jibbers42]

@Jon 

I have two cases, but one is really just a workaround...

What's common is I can categorize tasks in each use case, so tab groups makes sense to use as a task queue.

Scenario A: I have web pages where each page has tasks. Each task page is a different category and so is the first page in a tab group. I need to see multiple tasks to make decisions on each one so I need several open at once. Pinning the task producer page would be great since:
- I always need it so never close it
- I always want it to be first
- I don't want it to take much room with a full tab since I know what it is

Scenario B: This is a workaround for tab groups closing when you close the last tab. I have some tab groups that don't have a producer page - I just open tabs from different sources and put them in the correct tab group queue and work the queue to empty. The issue is I don't want the group to go away every time I close the last tab since I'll just have to create the same group again later. I'd be okay with pinning something like https://blackscreen.app/ in the group to keep it around.

Thanks for looking into this

[Edited Scenario A for more clarity]

[NaranKPatel]

I'm tired of accidentally closing tabs in a group! Pinning them means the "x" is gone, and they stay in the intended group. It also makes the tabs smaller in width, where I have many groups with tabs on several topics and commonly visited items, making them more readable. Having the "x" gone stops me from accidentally closing them and then being forced to reopen, which is a time-waster. I'd like it if pinned tabs could be inside of groups, as I have many groups stored per topic and can easily open many of these at a moment's notice since they are persistent and I frequently re-use/revisit them.

This is one of the features that completes the migration from Chrome to Firefox for me. I hate that Chrome is now fighting for pro-ad content, actively blocking privacy and ad-blocking extensions, which I'm happy to report still work fine on Firefox. The mantra for Firefox appeals to my sense of security, privacy, and blocking of ad-filled and dominated content that now plagues far too many websites.

[bubiji]

Tab groups is a new content of mine as I usually do not need to keep tabs organised (do not have so many of them open for a prolonged period of time). But while organizing a trip they seemed handy, only to discover I can not pin them and after closing the browser they dissapear from the tab bar. Ok, they can be found from search bar, but that is not ideal.

I really like the idea to have a tab group pinned and always visible and hope it will be implemented soon. 

[Nicoka11]

I'm personally a user of the almost dead Arc and Zen. Arc is (as i said) almost dead and not well maintained, zen is quite good and uses Gecko but it lacks a lot in the performance department sadly. 

These 2 browsers have truly amazing features like space switching and tab folders, and I would say that if firefox just had the tab groups pinned it would make a lot of people switch to it for good including me. 

Basically i think that some people like me want to use the sidebar exclusively and never have a "favorites" bar under the searchbar, when you look at it from this perspective pin tabs are essentially favorite folders in the sidebar.