Can I save Tab Groups without them loading automatically each time?
From what I gather, "Tab Groups" are only really useful when using the "Show my windows and tabs from last time" setting.
Normally, for cleanup and performance reasons, I like to start Firefox cleanly most of the time just from my homepage.
However, often I do work in "groups" of tasks, such as checking about 6 sites for updates on graphics drivers and filters. Another example is a set of 4 sites for new music info, a set of 3 for social networking, and a set of 6 for techy-news and updates. (I am a software engineer...)
As one can tell, loading this many pages all of the time is not ideal. Thus is there a way to make Firefox save Tab Groups and only load them on-demand?
(My question is similar to this, however, not exactly as I would like to use this completely without using ""Show my windows and tabs from last time," as was suggested in this thread.)
I think I am looking for something similar to Session Manager but I want to do this intrinsically in Firefox.
Is this something that can be done, perhaps via creating different user profiles and creating shortcuts to profiles for each one, or is there a better solution and/or an update on the way that would allow me to have tab-groups, but only load them when requested?
Thanks much for any help!
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Hi,
@ https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/795591
I think the solution provided by xtald00d is what you are looking for. Alternatively you can also right-click any of the open tabs and choose Bookmark All Tabs... and give suggestive names for the group folder.
If you have different categories of sites open, you can categorize them first using Tab Groups and then open and bookmark the groups separately.
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Thank you for the response!
My post was already becoming too long, so I neglected to mention that I tried this as that looked like a promising solution.
The issue I ran into was a matter of duplicate bookmarks: I have 2,163 bookmarks carefully organized in multiple folders within folders etc. I also have the bookmarks synced using Xmarks to other computers, Chrome (necessary for my laptop,) my iPhone (which requires IE sync'ing,) etc. Unfortunately my bookmark organization does not map to the tab-groups. Thus I would need to create duplicate bookmarks in different places (one for the tab-group, the other for their original places.) This is not even allowed; however, I tried creating "fake" duplicates by putting a dummy "#" at the end of the URLs, thus allowing me to create two bookmarks in two different locations to the same URL. But because this solution was pretty "hack-ish" it was resulting in odd behavior in several situations.
Thanks though, I can see this being a great solution for many people, and the "Open All in Tabs" option on a bookmark folder is a neat piece of functionality that I did not even notice until relatively recently.
Right now I am experimenting with creating multiple Firefox profiles: one with the normal "Show my homepage" set on startup, the other with "show my windows and tabs from last time" to use with saved tab-groups. However, this solution is not as scalable as I would like it to be. (Since tab-groups always load, this profile may soon become too bogged-down as it tries to load dozens of pages on several tab-groups every-time I start my browser. Alternately, I can create x-number of profiles, but then I will have to deal with keeping other extensions, preferences, and everything else stored in FF profiles in sync.)
Thank you to everyone that has responded, I am shocked at how quickly so many helpful responses have been posted! Since I am still working on this, I will of course be checking this thread continually.
MikeY
Hiya Mikey...
I love Firefox, But without the add-ons I would be lost, and not experiencing the tremendous joy I get from Firefox.
Anyway........Go to the Firefox offical add-ons page.
(1) For your duplicate url problem........please try..... Old Add Bookmark Behavior........ this will allow you to have multi url copies saved anywhere you like.
(2) Should you NOT wish to use the already mentioned folder option open all in tabs. then please try the add-on called...... Too Many Tabs....... this will store tabs on your chosen SEPARATE rows and you can open and view and close as of when YOU want. (Some knowledge of Avant Browser would be a great help then you would get the basic idea immediately, But TMT is not hard to master and learn from scratch).
Good luck I hope this information is useful to you and any past present or future readers.
Thomas J
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