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      This is a nice feature when you have a group of multiple sites you need quick access to on the regular. For me, I manage around 12 websites in three environments ; dev, test, and prod. Being able to group the websites by environment keeps things organized and somewhat readily available at two clicks (maybe three if you count collapsing a group before opening another group).

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      Now, the team is experimenting with smart tab groups, a new AI-powered feature that suggests names and groups based on the tabs you have open.

      I bet you one cheap bottle of mineral water they’ll implement this like tomorrow

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    smart tab groups, a new AI-powered feature that suggests names and groups based on the tabs you have open.

    Yeah sure ok. Did the community ask for this too?

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    Now, the team is experimenting with smart tab groups, a new AI-powered feature that suggests names and groups based on the tabs you have open.

    Off course, they found a way to integrate more Ai features.

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      Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if the inclusion of some small AI feature is what justified the rest of this work being done. As in, someone got approval for tab groups only because they were smart enough to describe it as “AI powered tab groups“. Just speculation

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    So they’re reintroducing a feature in 2025 that they added to Firefox in 2010 and subsequently removed in 2013. Such progress. Much wow.

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    I feel like this feature is a good idea that has come too late for me. I already “group” stuff via windows. That’ll be a hard habit to break.

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      Do you use an add-on to prevent that from wiping out all but one window’s worth of tabs when you close them? That’s what originally made me get a tab grouping addon, after losing a ton of tabs when I broke some out into their own window and then later closed the main tab window before the secondary one. Realized immediately what happened but it was already too late to save that entire generation of precious tabs. Who knows what articles I didn’t feel like reading at the time but was totally going to read later I lost forever.

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        Ctrl+Q terminates the whole program at once and you don’t lose any windows.

        Oh btw, just like Ctrl+shift+t reopens closed tabs, so Ctrl+shift+n reopens whole windows, with all tabs.

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          Interesting, though you can also just keep pressing Ctrl+Shift+T and it’ll eventually restore entire windows in the reverse order of closure, whether tab or window.

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        I either let the OS close firefox and then it opens all windows when I next start firefox. Or I use ctrl+shift+n to reopen the last closed window

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        I close all windows at once via the Quit feature, then it re-opens all of them. You can trigger that from the menubar (press Alt to unhide it) in the “File” menu at the bottom.
        You can also re-open a closed window from the “History” menu in that menubar.

        These might also be available in the hamburger menu. I’ve got that hidden, so can’t check easily…

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      Tab groups are built for open tabs, bookmarks are built for revisiting things. Their use cases are quite different in my opinion.

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        Ok but when do you make the decision to invest in organizing open tabs into groups versus bookmarking them or just moving them to a dedicated window. When do you close the tab or tab group – only when the initiative is over? Do you “archive” those tabs as bookmarks?

        And then there’s the profile variable

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          just moving them to a dedicated window.

          That’s the key, it’s like having a separate window, but without the separate window.

          At work I’ll open anywhere between 40 and 100 tabs at a time, but I want to keep them near my existing tabs and not in another window. I have an extension that opens them all in a new tab group. I typically work from the left edge of the group and close out of tabs as I get through them. I can still hop between my non grouped and grouped tabs without having to change windows. And if I want to pause it for a bit then I “minimize” the group like a window.

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          This question is a highly personal one from my perspective. I haven’t used the groups yet but I often toggle between six or seven contexts throughout the day and I’ll give them a shot for that.

          Profiles toggling just didn’t work for me as it was too … Slow for me as in I have to reorientate myself whenever I switched profiles.

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          Here’s a use case: I often have to open up a bunch of instances of the same website (an internal version of a customer-facing page). They all have the same URL, but because they’re single-page apps, they all have massively different functions. For a few hours, I’ll need to flip back and forth between a few of them at a time, as well as some other websites on different pages, as well as an external program that I’m referencing or modifying. Then I don’t have to do that again for a week or two. So I use a tab group to put all of them in, and then once they’re done, I save and close the tab group to reopen next time.

          Here’s another use case: I can use a single tab inside a “tab group” but use the tab group label to “name” the tab. That way, even though I have a dozen tabs open with the project name I work on at the beginning of the title, I can look at the label and know which one is the Jira ticket for the devops task I’m working on, which one is the Jira ticket for the new feature I’m waiting for QA signoff on, which one is the Jira ticket for the dependency update I need to do, etc. I also use this functionality when I have a bunch of stuff processing and I need to remember which one is on which step; do I need to do step 3 on this one or step 4? The tab group label knows.

          Or here’s another one: I’m currently in the middle of a big accessibility push for our product’s front-end. I have all of the various tabs and resources and Jira tickets and specs open in a tab group, and I can flip between all of them. I open them all every time because it’s rare that I only want one of them (though, if I do, it’s nice that Firefox automatically sleeps all but the active one when I reopen the group). When I’m working on the project, I open that tab group. When I’m done, I save and close it.

          Tab groups were literally the only thing I missed from Chrome when I migrated. I’m so glad to have them back, even though it did take seven five long years. Since it was available as a feature flag, I’ve used it so much.

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        Yeah, thought the same with vertical tabs already. It’s extremely cool that it’s there now for folks who want it, but if you have a strategy for putting tabs into multiple windows and then dealing with those windows appropriately, then there’s really no point in making it a vertical list for the handful of tabs per window you’ll likely have…

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      instead of having 12984 tabs open, you can have 345 groups with only a few dozen tabs in each one.

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      Multitasking, preparing for meetings/workshops, not having to make bookmarks that are only relevant for the duration of a project/task.

      There are many valid uses of tab groups that need to be kept open for quick accessibility without waiting for pages to load or finding specific groups of links that will not be relevant in a week

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      I don’t know about groups specifically, but keeping a tab open retains its history, so you can go back (and forward) later.

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          Oops, I wasn’t clear… I meant I don’t know what the use-case is for tab groups, but keeping tabs open in any form should save history. (Thank you for letting me know, though!)

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            I gave a few of my personal use cases above, but in short: when I need to reference or act on multiple things on different sites at short notice, and will probably need to again later; to label tabs; and when I need multiple tabs of the same website, but because the URL doesn’t update a bookmark is insufficient.

            Edit: You’re welcome!

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      For me, open tabs and bookmarks are different levels of the same thing. I’ll open a bunch of tabs researching some task I want to do, and leave them open because I want to come back to that. Bookmarks do the same thing, but with lower visibility and higher permanence.

      Tab groups let me group a handful of things to reduce the clutter. Similar to the way that folders are useful within the bookmarks manager.

      To use them, just drag one tab on top of another, it’ll make a new group. Give it a name, and you can now expand/collapse. So 10 tabs all related to one task can stay in-sight to remind you, but only take up 1 tab’s worth of space in the bar.

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    Was I signed up for some beta? I’ve had firefox groups for a few weeks now.

    And holy shit do I need em.

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        A/B testing a very effective mass testing ground, I’m surprised some people don’t do it. Amazon is probably doing a few dozen a/b tests constsntly

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    “You asked, we built it” --> “People keep shitting on us for our terrible decisions… Quick let’s do something people actually want to compensate ! Wait let’s also slap AI on it, I’m sure everyone will love that” (Mozilla being Mozilla I guess…)

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      People love to hate on Mozilla without knowing shit. Some of it is literally 4Chan grade manipulation as well.

      Like the whole ToS debacle. People just aren’t interested in truth just rage 24/7

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      Doesn’t seem to indicate whether groups will work with vertical tabs and unless that’s the case, I’m not switching from TST.

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        I’ve been using tab groups with vertical tabs. No issues here. I’m on stable.

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        They do work in vertical tabs, but only one level. You can’t have nested tabs as far as I can tell.

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      Waterfox does this with an improved implementation of tree style tabs. Also zero Mozilla Corp telemetry, opt-in or otherwise.

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      Yeah pretty sad. It would be a much more useful feature for me on mobile.

      On desktop, I usually just create a new window for different types of stuff.

      No easy way to organize my infinite tabs on mobile (as far as im aware).

      Chromium browsers on mobile do this, but it’s also a bit weirdly complicated/frustrating to work with at times, I hope of Firefox get to it, they can make it super simple.