Multi-account containers + tab groups would make Firefox the perfect browser for me, and I wouldn’t be able to use anything else.
SimpleTabGroups and the ability to place pinned addons in any area of the browser UI already gives you that
I tried using SimpleTabGroups and I didn’t understand how to use it. Perhaps i’m coming from using Safari instead. Regardless, firefox is a very good browser and i’m using it on my PC!
You have the extension button, a tab context menu (right clicking on a tab) and thats it.
The extension can do a lot, but basically you go to the extension icon in the extension area and create groups, you click on the group and all other tabs are hidden away. Then you open tabs here, you can right click on a tab to move between groups and also set the tabs favicon (the small icon) as the tab group icon.
You click in the menu on another group and the current tabs are hidden and you move there.
It can also work with container tabs (isolated cookies) so allow to use multiple accounts, and I think the hidden tabs are frozen, taking less RAM and CPU
It’s about tf time.
19 plugin authors looking for a new project now
Finally. Have made the switch over to Firefox a few months ago and this almost made me switch back. I swap context a lot at work / home so being able to group (and minimize said group) tabs helps a lot.
The Multi-Account Containers extension is great for this. Each container keeps its own context, so you can be logged in to the same service twice (or more) in tabs in one window. Can set it up so that some sites will always use a certain container, or that sites in a container will always use a proxy. That is EXTREMELY useful to me.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
Helpful, but not what I’m looking for personally. I want to be logged into the same account, just have groups of tabs related to different tasks I’m working on. Could be documentation for various frameworks or tooling related to whichever language I’m working on. Chrome had this and it worked great.
Unfortunately, containers only isolate cookies and session data. It doesn’t isolate history, bookmarks, saved logins, etc akin to Chrome’s profiles. A major use of this is separating work and personal browsing.
Firefox technically has profiles as well (via about:profiles), but there’s no profile switcher separate from an internal page.
Firefox has profiles, so you can further separate your work browsing from personal browsing. Each profile acts like a separate instance with it’s own history, bookmarks, addons, everything…
No, and everyone keeps recommending extensions and hacky workarounds. Wish Mozilla would gets its head out of its ass and just add a damn button that runs the firefox -p [profile] command in the browser itself so we wouldn’t need to use keep a desktop shortcut instead.
You can manage profiles from the About Profiles page when Firefox is open. If Firefox won’t start or you need certain options, you can also start the Profile Manager when Firefox is closed.
🎶You put the feature in, you take the feature out, you put the feature in and shake it all about. 🎶
I’ve been using the Panorama Tab Groups add-on for years, which (as I recall) is pretty similar to the native stuff they inexplicably removed back in the day. It’s currently unmaintained and a little janky in spots but perfectly usable.
