finally firefox re-added tab groups, after removing them once already in the past >_>
https://venturebeat.com/mobile/mozilla-is-removing-tab-groups-and-complete-themes-from-firefox/
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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Tab groups have always been there. They're called windows.
Not on mobile
Yeah, no. I'm not trying to keep track of 15 windows when I can make named groups to actually organize the various things I always end up coming back to
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Why people like 50 tabs at once. I can't understand.
Neither can we.
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As a librewolf babe, I'm keeping an eye on this: https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/2458
Tab grouping is so useful and something I've always had to resort to extensions for. Good for Firefox for this, can't wait for it to make its way to a browser that doesn't sell users data.
Hey, you can use tab grouping in Librewolf if you set browser.tabs.groups.enabled to true in about:config
Thank you for this!
By now you would've expected someone to have pointed out what code is actually collecting that data that's supposedly sold.
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... again
I'll never understand you people that need like 50 tabs open at once.
I have a few use cases:
- Many youtube videos that are like 30+ minutes long saved for later
- Documentation on some stuff that I need to go back and forth
- Movies or games that I found, but don't want to write down and forget
- Going down rabbit holes on wikipedia and saving it for another day
- Everything else that catches my attention and deserves a honorable spot in the tab bar
Basically, I use my browser as a notebook. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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live to help you declutter
Me ready to clutter even more 😈
Right??! So instead of clutter of tabs it will be clutter of tab groups… of tabs, lol.
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I'm glad they've added it to desktop, but based on my usage it's more important for me on mobile. Hopefully they bring it to Android soon.
Agreed. But I'm glad it's native to desktop Firefox now. Grouping tabs in desktop works for me to hide the hundreds of tabs I keep to tens of groups 🤪
A million times this. But now the backend is done, hopefully mobile isn't that far off.
As someone who is disgusted by people's browser tab hygiene on desktop, I will say that I do have this issue on mobile. But it's really more about how the browser is set up (on Android at least). Every single link I click opens a new tab, and I almost never scroll through existing tabs because, out of sight out of mind.
This is the last thing to make me switch to Librewolf.
Why this would be a reason? Librewolf will have tab groups too. They don't change the main structure, they just harden Firefox.
I use Brave rn.
Oh, you mean you were waiting for tab groups. Sorry, without enough context I thought you were telling one of those bullshit reasons people use against Firefox. Well then, see you with Librewolf soon.
Nice :)
Go fuck yourself
"Lastly, curious power users can flip the browser.tabs.smartGroups preference in Nightly to preview on-device AI grouping—just remember the prototype tag means rough edges are part of the deal."
If its called smart and uses Ai, then its advanced. We need Ai for renaming groups of tabs.
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Mh, I'll check out how it works but if I don't like it I can always stick with
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-groups/
(And obviously 👎 for the inclusion of useless AI bs, would be nice if you can turn that off?)
The AI is local, privacy respecting and optional to use, but I agree a config option to hide the button would be nice
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After everybody else yeah... woopie fkn doo. I say this as a LibreWolf user and using Firefox on alt PC.
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