Groups tabs in Firefox are an excellent landmark when a lot of web pages are open and periodically to each of them have to contact during the online session. Before the version number 45 in Firefox, the group was integrated into the interface, and everyone could use it without much difficulty. Now this option must be connected independently as an add-on or use alternative tools for sorting tabs by groups. About how this operation is performed in the latest FF versions, read in detail in this article.
Addons for grouping
You can download any of the grouping elements below the app store for fireload. It is worth noting that each of them has its own functional specifics and some features in terms of management.
Supplement almost exactly repeats the once "native" grouping function. It was created based on the original code from the browser distribution. Who used to use the embedded section of the tabs in groups, will figure it out in it without much difficulty.
Tab Groups can be downloaded on the https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/tab-groups-panorama/.
After connecting it, the icon will appear in the top of the FF panel. Open the necessary sites and click it.
In the confrontation window, MANAGE ... to go to the group manager.
To create a new group, click "+" in the field indicated by the dotted line.
Click on the top line of the block and enter the name of the group.
Overlooked tabs can be dragged by the mouse in the group block, including from blocks of other groups.
On the right side of the manager window there is a button panel. Use it for details of the type of group, as well as to change the parameters of the add-on options (Icon "Six").
Add tabs in groups are also possible by the context menu. Click on the tab with the Right Mouse web page. Move the cursor to the "Move to Group" item and in the submenu, click the group, or the New Group clause to create a new group.
If you select the creation of a new group, in the manager window that opens, do not forget to specify the name for it.
Highlight the block by clicking the mouse and enter the name in the field.
Management is carried out through the addon icon. After grouping, it will look like the name of the current group.
To view the contents of groups and tear down tabs, click on the button. Then in the list, select the group you are interested in.
The Addon Options window features an option to reduce and restore the created groups called Backup / Restore.
The addon acts in the same way as the previous one, but has certain differences in the control system.
At the end of the installation, click the expansion button that appears.
To view a list of links in a group, click on its string "Arrow Down" icon.
Creating a new group is carried out using the "CREATE NEW ..." option. Click on it to activate.
Mouse over the group string when an extra panel appears, click on the "Pencil" icon. Enter the name of the group.
In the process of web surfing, you can open the addon panel at any time and work with the created groups.
This expansion acts as a sorting "funnel". It analyzes the history of visits, and also records all open tabs.
Click the addon button to the right of the FF window to go to its panel. The list of commands is posted in its left. They are launched by clicking mice:
- "Add ..." - upload all current tabs in the ONETAB panel;
- "Publish ..." - place all current links on the addon service page (generated a unique URL);
- "Export / Import ..." - Reservation and Loading Links;
- "Options ..." - expansion settings.
All saved tabs are displayed on the left side. They are sorted by date and time of creation. You can delete them, restore.
The "More" section also features functions for labeling, renaming and blocking group bookmarks. (This submenu is displayed in each block.)
After activating the name input, the cursor will appear in the title line of the group. Type the name from the keyboard and press "ENTER".
This extension in the additional sidebar displays all open tabs in the form of a tree structure. It is built on the same principle as the hierarchy of folders in the Windows operating system. A few other directory may be invested in one directory.
TREE STYLE TAB is indispensable when, for example, the search for information in the network is carried out in several directions.
In practice, it looks like this. You open, suppose Google, under its block in the addon panel (left), click "Plus". Thus, a new "branch" or group is created, and then in this group open the Google search sites. Next, in the same way, create a new tree with Yandex and invest links for its extradition. Now in the extension interface, you can quickly switch between groups. In this case, it is Yandex and Google.
Alternative way grouping
The tabs can be combined into groups on certain thematic features as well as using the browser bookmarks panel without connecting addons, third-party online services and applications.
To implement this approach, follow these steps:
1. Press together the keys - Ctrl + B.
2. In the additional panel, Mouse over the "Other Bookmarks" section and click the right mouse button.
3. In the context menu, select "New Folder".
4. Give the name folder. It must comply with the thematic content of the group. For example, movies, news, games, etc.
5. Create folders for groups that you need. That is, reserve directories for links.
6. Now, if you want to send a page to a specific group, press Ctrl + d.
7. In the Additional window, click "Select ...".
8. Click of the mouse Select the thematic folder (group) corresponding to the content of the web page. Click "Finish".
9. When you need to open all the sites of a specific group, open the bookmarks panel and go to the required folder. And then click the links of interest.
Use any of the funds discussed to quickly find in the "Sea" tabs promptly what you need and maintain important links in the form of thematic groups.
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The Tab Groups (Panorama) Feature Has Been Removed from Firefox. We know this May Be Inconvenient and We Apologize. Removing The Tab Groups Feature Makes IT Easier for Us to Improve Firefox. Thankfully, The Mozilla Community Has Come Through with Some Great Replacements for Tab GROUPS. This article Covers Your Options.
Where Are My Tab Groups?
All Your Tab Groups Have Been Bookmarkd and Stored in The Bookmarks Folder. You can Access Them by Clicking The Bookmarks Button in the toolbar.
Firefox Has Also Made A One-Time Backup of Your Tab Groups Data That Is Stored In Your. Add-Ons May Be Able to Use This Data to Recreate Your Tab Groups.
TAB GROUPS REPLACEMENT ADD-ONS
THE TAB GROUPS EXTENSION
If You Want A Direct Replacement for the Tab Groups Feature, Try Tab Groups Extension. It Was Created Directly From The Firefox Code and Works Just Like The Current Feature. IT Will Be AS If The Feature Was Not Removed from Firefox. This Extension Aims To Fully Replace Tab Groups in Firefox, providing a Similar and Hopefully Even Enhanced Experience.
- You can install Tab Groups from addons.mozilla.org.
Once Installed, You Can Import Your Old Tab Groups from The Backup File That Was Saved When You Updated to Firefox 45:
You can Now Continue using Tab Groups AS If The Feature Hadn "T Been Removed from Firefox.
Other Extensions
This Collection More Options on Addons.Mozilla.org.
Important:
Replacement Extensions
There Are Several Extensions Created by Third-Party Developers That Can Help You Manage Tab Groups. You Can Find Our Editorial Picks In This Collection of Extensions, Or Browse for More Options on Addons.mozilla.org.
Important: If You Have Questions or Experience A Problem with An Extension, Please Contact The Extension Developer Directly.
Use Bookmarks to Manage Tabs
GOT TOO MANY OPEN TABS? You can use Two Easy Bookmark Commands to Keep Everything Organized.
- Bookmark All Tabs.
- Right-Click HOLD DOWN THE cONTROL KEY WHILE YOU CLICK ANY TAB AND CHOOSE BOOKMARK ALL TABS ....
- In The Window That Opens, Name Your Folder of Bookmarks and Choose Where to Save It (The Bookmarks Menu Or Bookmarks Toolbar Are Good Choices).
- Open All in Tabs
- Locate The Folder of Bookmarks That You Saved.
- Click on The Folder to Display The List of Bookmarks. Choose The Open All in Tabs Option At The Bottom of the List.
For most of us, the browser is the most popular and most commonly launched program on the computer. We use it for listening to music, watching movies, check mail and so on. And although browsers are updated almost every week, they have enough problems. One of them is not the most convenient work with a large number of tabs.
In fact, working with tabs is like in that joke about cats. You do not like cats? You just do not know how to cook them. You just need to learn how to work with tabs and use the browser suitable for this. And you will not be able to understand how they lived before.
Keyboard cuts (Hotkes)
Hot keys - a very convenient way to manage tabs. Especially when the tabs become such tiny that it is even uncomfortable to click.
- Ctrl + Tab.- Switching between tabs on the right side.
- Ctrl + Shift + Tab- Switching between tabs to the left side.
- Ctrl + W / Cmd + W on Mac- Close the active tab.
These are just a few combinations that will allow you to quickly switch between tabs. Keyboard abbreviations exists. And some of them can make you use the keyboard instead of a mouse to manage tabs.
Memory of open tabs
When you constantly switch between the browser and another program, there is a chance that you can accidentally close the browser, and then you will have to open everything again. And well, if you remember that you were open. A browser function can save from all this headaches, which allows you to remember which tabs are open before closing it.
Enable this feature and thereby free yourself from unnecessary work in the future:
- Google Chrome: Settings → Start Group → Continue to work from the same place.
- Firefox: Settings → Basic → When running Firefox → Show windows and tabs open last time.
- Apple Safari: Settings → Basic → Safari opens when starting → all windows from the last session.
Add tab add to favorites
Another quick way to save open tabs to work with them later, is to add them to a separate folder in bookmarks. To do this, click on the right mouse button and select "Add Tabs to Favorites". The name of the item may vary in different browsers, but it is easy to understand that this is the item that you need. As a result, you will have a folder with the addresses of sites in the bookmarks. Next, make the right click on this folder, select "Open all bookmarks" - All tabs are again in front of us.
Sorting tabs for separate browser windows
Who said that all tabs should be in one browser window? You can sort your tabs on different windows. For example, all tabs that relate to one project can be transferred to one browser window, and everything concerns entertainment, to another and so on. Just pull the tab to the empty desktop place, and you will open a new window. Another way is to make the right click on the link or bookmark and select from the "Open in a new window" from the list.
Select several tabs at once
You can make various actions not with one tab, but immediately with several. But for this, you first need to choose these tabs. Click the CTRL key (or CMD to Mac) and select the currently you need at the moment. All, now you can close them, restart, add to bookmarks and so on.
Fastening tabs
In modern browsers from good developers there is a wonderful function "Secure the tab". It is very convenient if you hold one or another tab that is constantly open. For example, it can be a Gmail tab or a music service. After you secure the tab, it will be more difficult to close and it will take less space on the tab panel. Just click on the right key tab and select the desired item in the list.
Restore the closed tab
Sometimes it turns out that you accidentally close the tab that did not want to close at all. The hand ropted or changed his mind at the time of closure - anything happens. To open this tab again, you can, of course, go to the history of the browser and find this site. And you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + T (or CMD + SHIFT + T on Mac in Chrome and Firefox and CMD + Z in Safari) to return this tab. You can also help the right click with the mouse on any tab of your browser.
Groups tabs in Firefox
Almost five years ago, the developers were added to the Firefox browser very cool feature which is called "tabs of tabs", or "panorama". It practically performs the trick, which is described above. We are talking about using different browser windows for tabs. Only here all this has been done more beautifully, and you do not need to produce many windows. A couple of clicks and you have already switched to work with another project or, on the contrary, have fun after work. To start the tab groups, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + E or CMD + SHIFT + E on Mac.
I hope that now your work with a lot of browser tabs will be slightly simpler.
45 Mozilla's company no longer supplies its browser with a group of tab groups, motivating this by the fact that too few people used this opportunity.
As a result, the "tab groups" and "group your tabs" icons are not available in the web browser interface. Version 44 has become the last, where they could be observed.
In addition, the combination of keys Ctrl + Shift + E, which previously responded just for the grouping, no longer leads to any actions.
In fact, a warning about the imminent disappearance of the "tab group" function could be observed in Firefox all recently in the group interface itself:
The link "Read more" there was here on this official page explaining that this opportunity will soon be removed from the browser, and all tabs distributed by groups will be saved to your bookmark catalog.
The group's function debuted in the spring of 2011 Firefox 4.0.
This mechanism was developed under the code names of Panorama and Tab Candy, a well-known expert in the field of Uzabi Aza Raskin, who, alas, has not been working for a long time in Mozilla.
Thanks to this technology, it was easy to divide the tabs on groups that did not intersect in the tab panel. That is, only one group was visible at each time, while others could be called from a special interface.
How to return groups of tabs in Firefox
You can return the grouping of tabs to the Mozilla Firefox browser using the Tab Groups extension. We will specify that this module is not easy attempt to simulate the functional previously existed in the web browser. Tab Groups uses the original Panorama function code from the Fire Fox versions, which went to Firefox 45.
As a result, you will get all the features that you have had before. Moreover, TAB GROUPS must pick up the tabs already existing before switching to new Firefox.
Extension is absolutely free and has an excellent user rating in the Mozilla catalog. After it is installed, the CTRL + SHIFT + E combination becomes the newly efficient, and the Group Your Tabs icon appears above the address bar (group your tabs) appears above the upper corner.
However, in addition to the return of the previous functionality, Tab Groups brings and a little new. In the group interface, pay attention to the gear icon.
He leads to a new page of options. These, however, at the moment quite a bit. You can set only hot keys, display animation and backup.
As you can see, return the groups of the tabs in Firefox turned out to be very simple, although the Mozilla solution to exclude this function from the basic delivery of the browser is still somewhat frustrating.
Tabs Mozilla Firefox - This is the magic browser function, which allows you to speed up the work in the Internet browser and at the same time save the workspace in the program window.
Today I want to tell you what you can do with tabs in Mozilla Firefox. You will learn how to group and sort, change the size and color, fix and clone, how to implement the preview in the pop-up window when you hover the mouse cursor on any tab, how to enable auto-update tabs after a certain time ...
I adore the Mozilla Firefox browser for his "flexibility" and very painfully moved from him on Google Chrome a year ago only because of the incomparable speed of the latter.
But life goes, everything changes and drinking some useful vitamins for the brain. Manufacturers at their twenty fourth versions twisted the Mozilla Firefox engine so that the browser caught up with the speed of his work "Corporation". In any case, visually, I do not notice the difference in their work.
By the way, I read somewhere on the network that the Mozilla Firefox browser 26 There will be a bomb at all! Developers threaten to hit the whole world speed of work of their browser and its capabilities. It seems like version 24 - it is only flowers. Well, wait and see, but for now I will keep the fists for them.
I am not conservative and easily accepting everything new or improved, so I returned the Mozilla Firefox the default browser status. Hooray!
Moving was absolutely painless, since I have learned quite recently. save and synchronize all your visual bookmarks Between different browsers.
Something me is not in that steppe suffered, an article like a Mozilla Firefox tab?
So, improving and optimize tabs in Mozilla Firefox, we will be using additions, it is natural. But first, I will show you the built-in function in the browser to group the tabs.
How to group tabs in Mozilla Firefox
For a long time, Mozilla Firefox has already learned to group tabs, but not all users know about it and know how to use this opportunity when working in the browser. But everything is very simple and comfortable ...
Open a dozen tabs right now. Opened? Now click on the button that right up the window lives ...
Doesn't such a button? Then click anywhere in the toolbar with the right mouse button and turning into the settings ...
Find and drag (holding the left mouse button) it is on the toolbar ...
Do not forget to click "Finish."
After you click on this button, you will get into the tab window. You will have one group, which can be stretched for the right area for convenience.
Now drag any tab from this single group on an empty place on the right or below and release the left mouse button. You have created the second group of tabs. In this new group, you can drag how many tabs you need, for example, on the subject of open sites.
Groups You can set the title - just click on the top line in the group and enter your name. You can still change the size of the groups and carry them throughout the window with the way you are comfortable.
In each group, your fixed tabs will be displayed on the right - very convenient.
And if you make a lot of groups and you will not have enough space in the window - just slightly reduce some group and tabs in it will be collapsed into a bunch. When clicking on the square with arrows at the bottom of the group there will appear a pop-up window with a detailed view of the group ...
I assure, getting used to using the groups of tabs, you will be very surprised at how they did before without them.
Groups of tabs are the built-in browser function and does not affect the speed of the browser.
All the remaining optimization of the Mozilla Firefox tabs we will do with you with the help of add-ons.
After installing all the additions described below, I did not notice the deceleration of the browser.
Additions to optimize Mozilla Firefox tabs
The most important addition to optimizing tabs is ...
Tab Mix Plus.
You are just thinking - it was installed more than a million users! List and show all the features Tab Mix Plus. In this article, I just can't. Settings for this wonderful addition is completely in Russian, logical and simple.
I will show you those items that are important, but not immediately noticeable ...
I personally did not like hard when closing the last tab I received the closure of the entire browser. Now this is not a problem - when closing the last tab, you can specify an action, for example, open an empty tab or homepage.
If you have a lot of open tabs - they can be placed in several rows or scroll through them using a mouse with a mouse in one row. Immediately you can change the location of the tab panel and the add button to add a new tab.
And here you can change the size of the tabs, enable them align and display icons on tabs.
Here we define the composition of the context menu of the tab. For example, you can remove those functions that you do not use and enable you need.
Deciphering each item appears when hovering the cursor to the item ...
I think that it will optimally freeze the tabs, and not just block them. So you never randomly close it and all links will open in a new tab - praise the author of the add-on!
I turned on the auto-update tab at a specified period of time. This is a very comfortable chip, for example, for tabs with statistics or mail. Now when you click right-click on any tab, select the item "Update tab every ..." ...
... and we receive auto-update tabs. By the way, before this was a separate addition.
For lovers of keyboard combinations there is a separate item to adjust hot keys.
Back in addition Tab Mix Plus. There is a very powerful and good session manager.
A little spinning and spending 10-15 minutes you can forever optimize your work with the Mozilla Firefox tabs. By the way, after all the settings you can save them ...
Colorfultabs.
Standard tabs in Mozilla Firefox are very boring, monochrome and merge, which is not Ice. I already wrote to you about the importance of visual perception of information. Let's describe them with all the rainbow colors.
Using the supplement Colorfultabs. In addition to more informative, we will receive a positive charge when working in the browser.
Initially, the color of the tabs will be assigned randomly, but you can easily assign your color for a specific site and quickly, subconsciously "snatch" it in a pile of tabs ...
Enough to press "Add Domain", enter the address of the site into the left line and clicking on the right button with the color to choose your favorite hue. The color code inserts into the middle line automatically. Now all the pages of a certain site will have the color that you personally appointed.
You can assign a color generation on the domains (addresses) of sites and all pages of one domain will be your color, which will choose the addition independently.
Tab Scope.
Addition Tab Scope. Include you display the miniature of the site in the pop-up window when you hover the cursor to the tab. Such a prubambas was before in the old and good opera. With a multitude of open tabs, this is also very convenient and informative.
I will already be collected, and then the article turned out long and you can get tired of it, and leaving - no longer return to this site.
Of course this is not all additions with which you can optimize tabs Mozilla Firefox. On the official browser website there is a whole section of additions with the name "tabs". Wander there yourself and if you leave, something useful and interesting - write for all the readers of the site in the comments.
And most importantly - a large number of open tabs require a large number of RAM in the computer! For comfortable work, at least 2 GB is needed - do not forget about it, otherwise the browser will be offended and starts to "shy".
Quick and unlimited Internet you! Good luck!
