Well, well, well. Firefox has finally decided to join the tab group bandwagon. 🙂 It only took them four years after the competition to roll this out. Mozilla’s blog post, which is almost as long as some of my old UNIX manuals, details the journey from user requests to launch. “What happens when 4,500 people ask for the same feature?” they muse. At Firefox, apparently, they take their sweet time but eventually deliver.
Let’s be real, folks. The reason those users were clamoring for tab groups was probably because Firefox was the odd one out. Chrome, Safari, and Edge had this feature in 2021, and Vivaldi? They’ve been rocking tab groups since 2016. Talk about being fashionably late to the party.
But hey, better late than never, right? Firefox’s tab groups let you drag and drop tabs into groups, label them, and even color-code them. And in a nod to privacy, Mozilla assures us that these groups stay on your device, no cloud shenanigans here. “It’s about reclaiming your flow,” says Firefox product manager Stefan Smagula. Sounds like someone’s been reading too many self-help books.
And what’s next for Firefox? AI, of course. Because what tech feature these days doesn’t come with a side of AI? Mozilla is testing smart tab groups that suggest names and groupings based on your open tabs. Let’s just hope it’s smarter than some of the other AI “helpers” out there.
