Closed Bug 218180 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

add second level to tab bar to show grouped tabs

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

x86
Linux
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 146677

People

(Reporter: gavin353, Assigned: jag+mozilla)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827 Suggest an option to add a second level to the tab bar to show the grouped tab names. Under each grouped tab, would be the individual tabs of the group. If the this option is enabled then clicking on a book marked group of tabs would add a new grouped tab, and the any existing grouped tabs would remain, otherwise the new grouped tab would replace the old one. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: N/A
I'm not quite sure what you're saying. Do you want Mozilla to load just one tab when loading a bookmarked tab group and then show, in in a second tab bar-type thing below the current one, all the tabs contained in that bookmarked group of tabs? If so, this is a pretty peculiar request, so I have a feeling it might get WONTFIXed. And thinking in the future, Mozilla Firebird deals away with the "bookmark this group of tabs" concept, an odd application of the idea in the first place, and replaces it with the ability to bookmark all open tabs in a folder--and, at the bottom of every folder in the bookmarks menu, there's a menu item to open all items in separate tabs.
My suggestion was in response to reading about a lot of people complaining about how selecting another bookmark of tabs replaces the current selecton. Another way of explaining what I meant is as follows, considr having two tab bars, the top one is for group tabs, the second for individual tabs within each group; | morning | updates | | User Friendly | Slashdot | Linux Today | Redhat Support | freshrpms | Here there are 2 grouped tabs: "morning" & "updates" The grouped tab "morning" groups three tabs: "User Friendly", "Slashdot", and "Linux Today" The lower level tabs for a grouped tab will be loaded together, and clicking on on a lower level tab like "Slashdot" will display that tab and whatever has loaded so far (the same behaviour as Mozilla has now). I think the above concept would also be useful for Mozilla Firebird. Where the grouped tab name is that of the directory holding the bookmarks.
>My suggestion was in response to reading about a lot of people complaining about how selecting another bookmark of tabs replaces the current selecton. Currently there's a preference to select if a bookmark group should replace the current set or it is added to it, so this point isn't a complain anymore. And I think that all the bugs about adding several levels to the tab bar has been marked wontfix, and so it should be this one.
Alfonso, what other bugs have requested multilevel tabs? And should this be listed as a dupe of them?
just search for resolved and confirmed bugs in Tab Browser with "level" in the summary. That gives you a first one, but there are more. As Gavin hasn't replied to my comment I think that he agrees with comment 3 (it doesn't mean that he agrees that multilevel tabs are bad, just that this is a dup). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146677 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
(In reply to comments #3 & #5) I still think grouped tabs like I outlined in #2 are a good idea, but I don't want to artificially push for a higher priority over other bugs/enhancements - as I am not in a position to evaluate relative merit and I know there are limited resources for Mozilla development.
Product: Core → SeaMonkey
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