1011357 - Sync other devices tabs as groups

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Sync, enhancement, P4)

Description

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When we use Sync on several devices, viewing others devices' tabs is not as easy in desktop Firefox than in the mobile version.
I found out that we can find them in about:sync-tabs
But wouldn't it be more intuitive (and cool) to have them listed in a tab group?

Comment 1

[guigs [:guigs] PST (please needinfo me!)]

Another user is asking about this feature: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1002087#answer-579878

Comment 2

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

Here are some steps of how I imagine this feature to work:

1. User connects to Sync on device 1 and chooses to synchronize tabs
2. User connects to Sync on device 2
3. In abou:sync-tabs on device 2 the user has two options, one to clone all tab groups of device 1 over to device 2, and one to pick specific tab groups from device 1 to add them to the existing tab groups of device 2.
   a) The user chooses the first option => All tab groups of device 1 will be copied over to device 2 including their layout replacing the exiting tab groups on device 2.
   b) The user chooses the second option => The user sees all tab groups of device 1 and can choose to copy over a tab group to device 2. Doing so, the tab group will be added to the existing tab groups.

Btw. my use case is to clone a profile between two desktop PCs. Not sure whether that's a normal use case for Sync as I assume it's more about synchronizing between different types of devices. Though the steps above should work for both cases.

Sebastian

Comment 3

[`{third: "Beedell", first: "Roke"}`{.JSON5}]

about:sync-tabs does not appear to exist anymore.