310956 - Tab grouping

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, enhancement)

Description

[Yuan Qi]

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

Comment 1

[L. H.]

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.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

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.

Comment 3

[Yuan Qi]

I agree now with the decision. Please change it to WONFIX.

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

WONTFIXing...

Comment 5

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

for the record, i HATE how win32 groups windows in the task bar. it never
behaves the way i want.