t8av Reporter
	Description • 11 years ago

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20130409194949

Steps to reproduce:

I had many tabs opened and I wanted to minimize the number of tabs and save most of them for later viewing, but I could not find a suitable action/option in Firefox.


Actual results:

My computer crushed due to power supply failure. 

One good thing came out of it - all my tabs we minimized in one "well this is embarrassing" tab. Exactly the way I wanted. I could check the tabs one by one using the middle mouse click.

Do I really need to cause my computer to crush just to minimize many active tabs to one HTML style menu?


Expected results:

Firefox should allow the use to group all active tabs in one HTML-like menu.

	t8av Reporter
	Comment 1 • 11 years ago

Typo: use = user
Firefox should allow the user to group all active tabs in one HTML-like menu which is similar to the after-crush "well this is embarrassing" menu.

	[:Aleksej]
	Comment 2 • 11 years ago

You may be interested in Tab Groups (Panorama): press Ctrl+Shift+E.  However, see bug 836758.

	[:Aleksej]
	Comment 3 • 11 years ago

Maybe duplicate of bug 648081.

	t8av Reporter
	Comment 4 • 11 years ago

(In reply to Aleksej [:Aleksej] from comment #2)
> You may be interested in Tab Groups (Panorama): press Ctrl+Shift+E. 
> However, see bug 836758.

The Tab Groups tool still does not do what I wanted. I just wanted a simple tool that will do the following:

1. When I have many tabs opened, I right-click a tab (something like "check later") and the tab will be removed from the panel and be added to a "watch later" list. As simple as that. You can of course use the Tab Groups tool to store the tab after it was removed from the list.

Regardless, the Tab Groups tool is new to me. Looks interesting but I think it needs some improvements to be practical:

1. The Tab Groups tool should appear in an HTML-style format.

2. The Tab Groups tool should appear as a tab by itself, and not a separate mysterious window.

3. Does Firefox remember all these groups on exit? (I set Firefox to "When Firefox starts show my window and tabs from last time").

	t8av Reporter
	Comment 5 • 11 years ago

In addition: maybe I am wrong, but it seems to me that the "Tab Groups tool" takes a lot of computer's resources because all these tabs are open and active, while my suggestion "watch tab later" saves the tab's data to the hard disk, and these tabs consume no run-time resources.

	[:Aleksej]
	Comment 6 • 11 years ago

I use the Options/Preferences → "Tabs" → "Don't load tabs until selected" checkbox.

	t8av Reporter
	Comment 7 • 11 years ago

(In reply to Aleksej [:Aleksej] from comment #6)
> I use the Options/Preferences → "Tabs" → "Don't load tabs until selected"
> checkbox.

1. How is "Don't load tabs until selected" relevant to this issue?

2. "Don't load tabs until selected" is already checked in my browser.

3. The only case where my tabs are not loaded is after crush recovery when all tabs open at once.

	[:Aleksej]
	Comment 8 • 11 years ago

I also have "When Firefox starts: Show my windows and tabs from last time".  Not sure they don't all load after a crash though.

	Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)
	Comment 9 • 10 years ago

I agree, bug 648081 would provide this capability. And it too may be a duplicate of another bug.