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Anonymous
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Status: New idea

Tab groups and sync extensions has already been suggested but yet to be implemented.

With Firefox it is possible to send (copies of) Tabs to other device as well as open up (a new copy) of tabs from other devices with the Synced Tabs feature. Using these are tedious and gets arduous. Plus now you have the same website(S) open on different devices and will show up in the "Synced Tabs" as separate tabs making the Sync Tabs list bulky and inefficiently redundant.

I work in one window, multiple tabs, (its easy to loose tabs when working in multiple windows).

I want when I close a tab on one device, it closes on all my devices. Open, change URL, etc. While this may not be good for classic browsing on multiple devices, using separate spaces/groups that sync together turns multiple devices into a single seamless continuity.

tab groups are organized by user preference and not device and by Syncing tab groups it will feel like working on a single device instead of multiple devices. Closing a tab in a group will mean that the tab is closed on all devices, etc. Separate devices can have different active groups.

Extensions exist that can group tabs, backup, and restore, but they cannot be synced live which is something I believe Firefox can and should implement themselves if they are not willing to sync all extension settings/data.

 

49 Comments
robertseetzen
New member

+1

Not being able to access my tab groups across devices is the reason I might eventually back to Chrome. I'd really prefer not to. And, sorry, but I have to ask: Can implementing sync for tab groups really be that difficult? Or put that much more load on the Mozilla servers?

second-arctic
New member

Please for the love of god, enable tab group syncing across devices. Chrome does this. Safari does this. It's an awesome feature. I actively want to use Firefox, but I'm sick of having to manually create, update, or recreate tab groups again and again and again when using Firefox across different devices. It creates a friction that does not exist in other browsers and each time I have to go through it, it just increases my desire to use either of the other two browsers. 

+1

quaker120
New member

+1

I love tab groups, but it's annoying that I can't sync them between my desktop and laptop.

rednishat
Strollin' around

+1

rednishat
Strollin' around

And why I can't restore tab groups from my mozilla acount? Sometimes when I close FireFox, I lost all my tabs. Its really annoying to create again. Why cant that would sync with my mozilla account just like multi account container and I can joos to reload my tabs from recent tab groups. Recent tab groups don't show if I close FireFox accidentally and start a new session.

dmonty007
New member

If only I had better devices I wouldn't be having all of the issues that I have been having lately especially security wise every time I open a account the hackers shut it down they're also saying that I'm deceased so that 2 of my emails that I log in X with or Google I can't access now

dejanm83
New member

+1, definitely!

ramzeska
New member

Please

rlengland
Strollin' around

+1 for syncing tab groups

Nethershaw
Strollin' around

This is the only feature left to achieve parity with Chromium tab groups; and the only thing preventing Firefox being a viable replacement now that Google is forcing Manifest v3 on everyone.

G_Gascón
New member

+1 for syncing tab groups

ReanimationXP
New member

+1, it makes no sense that Tab Groups don't sync.. there is also not a good Tab Groups manager. Chrome has had all of this for some time now. Without this, calling the tab sync feature "syncing" is a misnomer, as they're not really syncing. You can only view a list of tabs open on other devices and pluck them one at a time to this one. That isn't syncing.. it's barely shared bookmarks. Live Tab Group syncing (especially if you include session data, cookies, form data, etc) would solve two problems at once. Syncing live field and form data would give you an edge and improvement over Chrome. Please make Tab Group syncing and management a priority. soon. Quality of Life improvements like this can really drive market share. Keeps people from going back to Chrome as not to lose convenience, and people who make waves in market share use this kind of thing.

mero_fire
New member

+1 for me...sync tab group would be great...i have a lot pcs, laptops etc 

robeandr
New member

This is currently the only feature stopping me from switching from Microsoft Edge. 

Kobaruon
New member

+1 only thing preventing me from switching to Firefox