• Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    Yes, they worked differently than the way Edge or Chrome do now and were in many ways superior for tab management, much more like Vivaldi’s sessions but more intuitive. I was a heavy user and so am biased. They said “just use an extension!” but it would crash and lose your session (and imo the extension works even worse today). It was really ahead of its time.

    Few people used it because they didn’t advertise it or make it easily discoverable. You had to know the shortcut already through osmosis or drag the button out of the customize menu.

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221050#c0

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      9 months ago

      Simple tab groups works better tbh. It uses the features to hide, list and manage tabs.

      But a native in-line implementation would be best.

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        9 months ago

        I actually prefer Chrome’s tab groups, preferring to have groups visible and one click away. Ideally the user would be able to choose whether to show or hide inactive groups.

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          9 months ago

          True. That is an entirely different UI and also underlying browser issue. Mobile does not have Containers or process isolation.