Closed Bug 310956 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Tab grouping

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, enhancement)

PowerPC
macOS
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: mozillabugs.3.maxchee, Assigned: mikepinkerton)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 Tabs are perfect when you only have a few pages opened up. However, they become very inconvenient when you opened up 10+ pages. To solves this problem, I am proposing a mechnisms where related web pages are grouped together under the same tab. Click and hold on a tab will display a popup menu containing the grouped pages. The logic for grouping the pages works like this: 1. Whenever they are <= 5 tabs no grouping will occur 2. When the 6th page has been opened in a tab, group pages (that are opened through links or from history) according to their referrer relationships (the referrer (parent) will be grouped with its children and pages with the same parent will be grouped together regardless of the prescence of the parent page) 3. For pages with no referrer data (eg. opened from bookmarks or addressbar), they will be grouped based on domain Reproducible: Always
Tabs can already be grouped together using windows. If you have too many tabs in one window and they are not all related you should just put unrelated tabs in other windows. This would make tabs more confusing with tabs jumping together and splitting apart all the time to slove a problem that is already solved with different windows.
Right, so I agree with comment 1 but would like to add that we'd be adding another "level" of browsing. Window --> Tab group --> Tab. That's too much for a user, imo. Recommending WONTFIX.
I agree now with the decision. Please change it to WONFIX.
WONTFIXing...
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
for the record, i HATE how win32 groups windows in the task bar. it never behaves the way i want.
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