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by weaksauce 1815 days ago
neat webext but I'm curious why no firefox release? after a brief perusal of the code it doesn't look like the code has any glaring incompatibilities.
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It looks like this utilizes Chrome's tab groups, which Firefox doesn't have.
I wonder if tab reordering is possible, creating pseudo-groups by merely placing all related ones next to each other. Then shift-clicking them could enable tearing off a new window containing all related tabs, which I 100% get isn't the same, but might not be totally worthless, either
tab reordering would be possible but the shift-clicking on the tab group would have to be some other mechanism like a context menu action or something along those lines.
Oh, apologies, I meant the _user_ would be responsible for shift-clicking and tearing off those tabs; I haven't ever seen an extension that was able to do those kind of wholistic browser operations
ah i see... yeah an extension could theoretically do it but it would be along the lines of right click on a tab and then select a context menu action that the extension installs that would then do something like "break this group off into a new window"... fairly trivial to implement but I don't think it exists right now.
yeah that would do it. i didn't notice that... I guess like the other commenter said it could be done with a pseudo tabgroup kind of thing where you move the tabs in a specific ordering but you'd lose the coloring that is native to tabgroups in chrome.