788663 - request tab groups export/import

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: Panorama, enhancement)

Description

[Geof]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0
Build ID: 20120824154833

Steps to reproduce:

Moved lots of pages between "tab groups".


Actual results:

One move caused my Ram to go to 99% and I had to stop the process.
Upon restart - no "We are sorry", no previous pages and 
NOTHING IN THE TAB GROUPS ! - Hours of work - GONE.



Expected results:

Firefox should not have crashed - ya right...
But I understand how hard it is to make "perfect" software.
So... Request:
Let me backup "tab groups" the same way you backup bookmarks.
Export/Import. 
Thanks.
(Great project for somebody - not fixing bugs)

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Panorama has been removed from Firefox 45, currently in Beta and scheduled for release on March 7th. As such, I'm closing all existing Panorama bugs.

If you are still using Panorama, you will see a deprecation message in Firefox 44, and when 45 is released your tab group data will be migrated to bookmarks, with a folder for each group. There are also a few addons offering similar functionality.

See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-removal for more info.

We're removing Panorama because it has extremely low usage (about 0.01% of users), and has a large number of bugs and usability issues. The cost of fixing all those issues is far too high to justify, and so we'll instead be focusing our time and energy on improving other parts of Firefox.