Thaddee Tyl wrote:
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Without going so far as adding an add-on by default, I'd like to point
out that Tab Groups (ex-Panorama) would actually fit most people's
need, but:
1. Nobody knows about it. I'll freely admit it is very hard to
discover. I can't find it in the current menu, even though I know
about it. It will probably get worse in Australis.
2. The rare people who know about it dislike it because they have to
click on the icon at the top right (which apparently they ended up
finding, I don't really know how). The shortcut, Ctrl-Shift-E, is
nowhere to be found.
Note that having the button in the Australis menu with the shortcut in
the information bubble that pops up would solve both of those
problems.
It solves so many problems so fast because:
- Firefox doesn't load tabs from other tab groups upon start-up.
- Panorama has an immediately accessible search functionality.
Ctrl-Shift-E and start typing.
- Tab groups are remembered from device to device through Sync, making
it easy to browse through open tabs on another device.
- The position a tab group has is fixed, making it easy for you to
remember where everything is.
- Most people don't need three levels of inclusion (ie, a tree),
they're happy with simple groups.
Here's the truly bad thing about tab groups in it's current
implementation: if I close that window I lose work. Tab Groups are
definitely an interesting idea, but until we're able to save those
groups out to profile, open a tab group in a new window, sync them
around to my devices, I feel like it's a loaded gun. Tab groups has
failed me, and to be blunt I think that is because Mozilla failed to
finish tab groups.
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