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Anonymous
Not applicable
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.

 

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EthosPhronesis
Strollin' around

Please introduce the ability to share the state of tab groups. I'd like to, at the press of a button, see two classes of tab groups:
 1. Tab groups where more than one device is sharing the group state.
 2.. Tab groups that exist only on a given device.

I imagine tab groups being present in the aforementioned list as long as the one or more windows with the group remain open.

When a tab group has a shared state with more than one window, changes in content/order within that tab group are reflected in other groups on next sync.

Tab groups with a shared state can be "unshared," at which point said group is no longer affected by changes on other groups. 

Once unshared, a tab group is independent. It cannot be merged again. The previously "shared" group could be re-spawned on the device, though. And, tabs can be moved.