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Anyone working on this reading the thread? Can we ever expect an extension that will allow the far better tab management that Chrome has? Namely: Being able to scroll between tabs with the scroll wheel, and being able to select multiple tabs with shift/ctrl to drag them/merge them/close them/etc.

It's crazy to me that Firefox's original selling point was tab management, and today Chrome's is so much better.

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I am the project mentor for the Google Summer of Code project to implement multi-select tabs.

See the bottom of the table at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Community:SummerOfCode18 for more info and please apply if you want to see this added to Firefox! :)

Wheel scrolling for tabs has always worked for me in Firefox on Windows, and still does. Arguably FF handles this better because the tabs don't become 8 pixels wide once you have a bunch of them open.

Is this broken on a specific OS or under a specific window manager maybe? It might be worthwhile to file a bug, since it definitely should work.

There's a bug filed to allow for multitab operations and it got assigned not long ago - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566510

I doubt it'll be in Fx60, but maybe son after? :)

Sweet! Thanks for that heads up. It really is one of the things I miss the most from chrome.

I think you could always scroll between tabs with the wheel in Firefox?

TIL about ctrl selection in Chrome. I bet most people didn't know that either.

You used to be able to, yeah. Then they switched to gtk3 I believe and that went away.

Ah I'm booted into Windows right now. But I think it works on GTK3 too…

there is (was?) a firefox extension called Tab Wheel Scroll which is broken since WebExtensions

The main reason I won't upgrade firefox.

https://github.com/mthamil/Tab-Wheel-Scroll/issues/19

edit: there's hope!! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1285812

Scrolling in the tab bar works out of the box though?!

Is that extension about changing the tabs with the wheel?

There's an extension called multi tab select by the author of tree style tabs that does this.

How I wish there was a session manager for Firefox Mobile, or just any Android browser in general.

How I wish there was a session manager for 57+. The Session Manager plugin was great but I'm not aware of any alternatives and Firefox doesn't seem to support a library of multiple past sessions to pick from.

Session Manager was one of the best extensions I relied on before Firefox 57. Since that project was discontinued due to deficiencies in WebExtensions APIs, I'd stopped updating Firefox on some machines (I also like Tab Mix Plus, which isn't yet released for Firefox 57+). On others, I recently installed Tab Session Manager. [1] It's not supposed to be a drop-in replacement for Session Manager, and I'm yet to use it well, but it does have basic session saving/restoring features.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-m...

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