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> We’re excited to introduce multiple tab selection, which makes it easier to manage windows with many open tabs. Simply hold Control (Windows, Linux) or Command (macOS) and click on tabs to select them. Once selected, click and drag to move the tabs as a group — either within a given window, or out into a new window.

Yessss. It doesn't happen often, but the times when I open up 6-10 tabs for research but then decide they deserve their own window so I can focus on them (and subsequently drag them out one by one) is still a lot.

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This was a GSoC project :)

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2018-July/006...

This is one of those Chrome features that was keeping me on Chrome. I kept switching to Firefox and this would be a major reason why I would switch back.

Super happy right now.

Wow! I didn't know this worked on Chrome.

I didn't know this didn't work in Firefox!

It's the little things (: To be honest as soon as I figure out how to change all the little workflow details I currently use in Chrome, I'll be happy to switch to use Firefox more often / primarily. I love how snappy Quantum feels.

Or Vivaldi (https://vivaldi.com), which has many such quality of life improvements over both Chrome and Firefox.

One of the greatest multiple-tab features is available in the Multiple Tab Handler [0] in combination with Tree-Style Tabs: click-drag to close (or select). It's a bit more tedious in the current non-XUL versions of FF (have to mouse down longer), but basically if you need to close like 50 tabs in your tree, you can mouse down over one "x" and drag selecting the other "x"s and once you mouse up it closes them all. Want to close every other one or a more specific set? With the mouse down, only go over the "x"s you want to close. The same thing on the tab itself for selecting multiple tabs to do anything like reparent, reload, etc.

0 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-...

I use Panorama View, it's a clone of the old tab groups functionality. Multiple windows is hard to save as a session.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-view...

I would recommend Panorama Tab Groups over Panorama View fyi just because panorama view doesn't see a lot of maintenance in recent months. They're still there, but in hibernation so they don't get new features right now.

https://github.com/projectdelphai/panorama-tab-groups

full disclosure: I'm the maintainer for Panorama Tab Groups right now so I am slightly biased. I do think photodiode and the guys in charge of Panorama View are way better than I am at this, but since they're not active right now, I've created a fork so I can have a more up to date add-on

I endlessly miss tab grouping

Simple Tab Groups add-on (with latest updates) works wonders and I'd even say better than old Tab Groups.

Yess, finally, I use this feature in chromium A LOT, and it's one of the things that stopped me from switching back to firefox as my primary browser.

There's still a five year old bug where firefox thinks the window has the last size from the previous session when you restart it and save open tabs, when using a tiling window manager, but it fixes itself when you manually resize it, I can learn to live with this.

oh man. yes, I experience this everyday (awesomewm user)

This is the bug report on the mozilla bugtracker by the way, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=927621

In cases like this I used to open a new window and use this plugin [0] to move them fast, because dragging tabs between windows seems very finicky to me in Firefox. Hopefully with this update things will improve.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/movetab/

Moving tabs-between-windows (Tree Style Tabs, OSX) is probably my least favourite part of Firefox presently.

That and the keep-consuming-all-memory-until-all-memory-is-consumed switch, and the killing of GCLI (see: https://joindiaspora.com/posts/77a57160cf470136d1540218b70db...) which makes restarting FF far more fraught. Quite honestly, a "force quit" seems to be the most effective approach.

I actually wrote my own extension to do quick tab movement across multiple windows (often on different monitors/workspaces) all from the keyboard: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/workspaces-fo...

Also being able to save them as a session would be a nice touch.

My method for this is usually to do "Bookmark All Tabs" to shove all of the open tabs in a window into their own folder.

I just found this yesterday, for saving sessions.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-sync/

It has the advantage that it just saves to a special spot in bookmarks, so these sessions sync across devices too:

open source too: https://github.com/ReDEnergy/SessionSync

https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/tab-session-mana... Is great too.

I used to use OneTab, but it wasn't robustly constructed to deal with data loss/recovery. I've now moved on to Session Buddy, which has some really nice features, like auto-saving your browsing sessions without your doing anything. (I guess I should check if that respects private modes.)

I am on 63 and I already have it. It's just that it was disabled by default and you needed to enable it in about:config.

I used to use the multiple tabs handler addon but it stopped working once I moved to 60esr so I was glad that they introduced it back.

It's one of the features I love the most on chrome. Even better than pulling tabs into a new window is merging two windows. Without this trick you have to move tabs one by one, but with this you can merge two windows super easily.

Oh good, so now they're bringing in another Chrome feature. Or should I say, an Opera feature that Chrome stole and wasn't necessary in Firefox.

Opera is dead, and I'm sad about that. Implementing features that made Opera great is the best course of action, IMNSHO.

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