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Better interaction with tab groups add-ons

Open Croydon opened this issue 10 years ago • 9 comments
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  • [x] use Firefox's tab.hide API to actually hide hidden tabs -> #183
  • [x] Perform real life tests with hidden tabs
  • [ ] Options: Implement conditional flag on optional permissions #225
  • [ ] (maybe) integrate a tab group button in the toolbar to directly open the tab group configuration page of third-party add-ons
  • [ ] (maybe) try get the name of the current tab group from third-party add-ons and display it in the toolbar
  • [ ] (maybe) offering switching tab groups directly from tab toolbar
  • potentially candidates tab group add-ons for such integration:
    • Panorama View

Croydon avatar May 29 '15 00:05 Croydon

Mozilla will remove tab groups with Firefox 45.

Croydon avatar Dec 16 '15 18:12 Croydon

Reopened, because the situation is a completely different nowadays due to the fact that tab groups isn't a build-in feature of Firefox anymore and the dynamic of add-ons change with WebExtensions.

I want that there is a tab group solution which works nicely together with VTR.

Croydon avatar Sep 15 '17 19:09 Croydon

For what it's worth, most of my bets are on this successor to Tab Groups:

Simplified Tab Groups

Recent thoughts, condensed …

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/-/13310/28?u=grahamperrin a week ago under Concern about WebExtensions exclusive strategy from add-on authors and users - Mozillians - Mozilla Discourse, and then https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/-/13310/30?u=grahamperrin gained a like from Dennis Schubert, maybe for the closing remark:

… Pull requests, anyone? :-)

From https://asadotzler.com/2017/10/01/some-nice-things-people-said-about-firefox-57-beta-quantum/#comment-2326 under this week's Some Nice Things People Said About Firefox 57 Beta (Quantum) – Asa Dotzler

… Timescales: I reckon, for the types of extension that are essential to my workflow, there’ll be testing in the first half of 2018 with reasonable maturity in the second half. …

grahamperrin avatar Oct 07 '17 17:10 grahamperrin

@Croydon just FYI https://github.com/Quicksaver/Tab-Groups/issues/535#issuecomment-341179257 quotes a mention of a straight up rewrite/replacement …

grahamperrin avatar Nov 18 '17 15:11 grahamperrin

Firefox 59 implemented a methode to hide individual tabs, empowering add-ons to implement tab group features.

I will implement support for hiding individual tabs in VTR as well to make sure that tab group add-ons work together with VTR.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/TabHiding

Croydon avatar Jan 20 '18 12:01 Croydon

I would like to hear from people which tab group (WebExtension!) add-ons they are currently using 😄

Croydon avatar Apr 18 '18 18:04 Croydon

Using TabGroup Manager revived in Pale Moon before, recently trying to migrate to Firefox Quantum, now using Sync Tab Groups and it seems to work fine. However, VTR currently doesn't support Multiple Tab Handler, so I am using Tree Style Tab instead. It would be wonderful if you can implement an API for TST as the author explained here: https://github.com/piroor/multipletab/issues/148#issuecomment-382268451 (Sorry for being off-topic.)

alreadydone avatar Apr 18 '18 19:04 alreadydone

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/basic-panorama/ is the best WebExtension I have seen so far which makes use of the tab hiding API.

merged now upstream into https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/panorama-view/

Croydon avatar May 12 '18 15:05 Croydon

Post-poned as Panorama View doesn't seem to be actively maintained anymore and Sync Tab Groups doesn't seem to be an equivalent replacement

Croydon avatar Dec 10 '18 04:12 Croydon