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by mgnn 689 days ago
> Currently, Firefox users can create different user profiles to segregate workflows and open tab sets, but more granular tab organization is on the way. Mozilla says it will roll out an improved profiles system and new tab management capabilities later in 2024.

Panorama was there. It was beautiful.

Simple Tab Groups works OK.

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> Simple Tab Groups works OK

Works perfectly for me. I have a tab group for every possible activity on my computer - Banking, take-out food, one for each research topic, one for each software or hardware project I am working on, and so on.

Altogether thousands of tabs, and STG manages them without a hitch.

I do the same. I think I have about 50 different tab groups using Simple Tab Groups.

I wouldn't call it working without a hitch. It's not crashing often, but it does occasionally, usually associated with a Firefox update. There's something wrong with the way either that addon, or Firefox itself, manages updates that have been recently applied. I've started making sure I make a backup of my tabs before Firefox does any updates, because it's almost certainty something goes wrong.

Usually I just need to restart Firefox and nothing else, but sometimes Simple Tab Groups has also lost the containers I'm using. That is a real pain in the ass to recover from.

Mine is set to back up automatically every day, but I never had to restore, touch wood. Occasionally the icons go wonky until the next restart, but that's the only issue I've beer seen.