Workspaces à la Opera

[joshg253]

Please implement Workspaces in the way that current Opera browsers have. It's an incredibly slick way to compartmentalize things, which is super helpful for neurodivergents like myself. I'm currently utilizing separate/different browsers to achieve similar.

Basically a vertical list of icons for each Workspace on the side (a button in the toolbar with a dropdown to select Workspaces would suffice), that instantly switch to all the Tabs open in a given Workspace and hides everything else. Pinned Tabs stay with each Workspace. Tab Groups can exist within a Workspace.

I've tried all the "similar" Firefox addons people suggested throughout the tubes, but as Prince said, "Nothing Compares 2 U".

• They all seem to reload tabs when you switch, which is not fast and therefore not slick. 🙂
  • Some are worse, you have to manually save a "session" and then it'll reload all the tabs in the session when you switch. Not slick.
• They all seem to (purposefully) show Pinned Tabs regardless of Workspace.
  • Perhaps ~Globally-Pinned Tabs that always show regardless of Workspace selected could be useful for others, but unnecessary for me at the moment.
• Some similar ideas "containerize" each ~workspace, which requires you to log into each site in each Workspace separately -- not what I want. I want all my stuff accessible from each Workspace. My Work & Home identities are on separate computers.
  • A "container" feature is different than this request but I think they could work together. E.g. create a Workspace, choose an identity/account/etc. for it. Outside the scope of this request.

E.g. I have:

1. A Main Workspace with my main email + tasks + feed reader pinned, then use that area for general browsing (i.e. normal life).
2. A Gaming Workspace with maps & stuff for games I'm currently playing.
3. A Dev Workspace with all my Dev-related stuff (source control sites, another email account, etc.).
4. Temporary Workspaces for when rabbit holes go too deep...
5. Etc.

I'd likely make even more use of them if they were in my preferred browser. (fanboi since Phoenix🔥🦅)

No idea how this would translate in mobile, not concerned with that for the time being. Desktop Firefox on Windows/Linux.

Also not concerned with being able to sync Workspaces across browsers -- I think we can already see open tabs in other browsers sync'd to our Firefox accounts, good enough for me.

[avijayr]

For me, I would prefer that each workspace be tagged with a default container, and so the logins of the container [group] are separated from each other.

[wismight]

WORKSPACE CREATION

Hi,

You can integrate the ability to create workspace, like edge does

It allows the creation of workspaces with tabs for specific work.

E.g. School Workspace may contain tabs that are used for my acamic activities 

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[ScottCarammell]

Big agree; I feel like workspaces are a natural evolution of the web browser at this point that should be adopted as a standard feature. Even if you don't personally use them, if it's possible to add them there's really no reason not to. Worst-case scenario you just ignore them and move on, but it's a big help to productivity for the people like me who do use them.

[firefoss]

The "Simple tab groups" addon:
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-groups/
achieves this, at least the way I want it.

It is currently "Recommended" by Firefox, which is great.

Warning:
I just found out that there is an addon with the same name.
The only difference is in the URL, which I won't post here to avoid confusion.

Of course it would be great if that was a native feature.

The only improvements I can think of, compared to this addon, are:
    No bugs (it happened a couple of times).
    Optional "containerized" tab groups, for different login credentials on the same website.

[macadoum]

Workspaces are a useful addition for Firefox. It should be native. Make it happen !

[KrodhanK]

I would love for FF to have a workspace feature that's half way between Arc's and Edge's. Essentially just spaces in Arc that can be opened in a new window; Please make it happen.