Simplified Tab Groups for Firefox

This project aims to provide a simple add-on to replace some functionalities from TabView/Tab Groups/Panorama which were removed from Firefox due to a lot of open bugs and a very low overall usage.

As this add-on is built to replace the features removed from the Firefox core, it is supported in Firefox 45 or later. It may work in older versions, but be careful.

Installation

The add-on is available at addons.mozilla.org and should be installed there to ensure the add-on stays updated.

Compatibility with old Tab Groups/Panorama

This extension was built to replace the functionalities, not to work together with it. While this project is able to read the data created by the old built-in functionalities, groups managed by this extension will not work in panorama. That is, mainly, because Panorama requires additional data (like the groups position and size on the virtual board) which we do not save.

Please do not open Panorama if you use this extension and Panorama is not yet removed from Firefox. If you have opened Panorama, you have to restart your browser to make this add-on work again since Panorama registers some event listeners that conflict with our code. Unfortunately, this also seems to happen after some minutes/hours of using Firefox without opening Panorama. There is nothing this project can do against it registering its event handlers so it's probably best to wait for Panoramas removal...

Warning

Please note that this extension is currently in a very unstable and untested state and may kill your tabs or small kittens. While it may get improved and secured in the future, I strongly advise you to make a backup of your important tabs...

Building

Assuming you have Node.js v5 installed on your machine, building this project is rather easy.

1. Install the dependencies: npm install.
2. Run ./node_modules/.bin/jake build to build all source files into the dist/ directory or run ./node_modules/.bin/jake run to build the add-on and start a Firefox instance for testing.

jake run uses jpm and you can pass additional parameters to it by setting an environment variable, for example: JPM_PARAMS="-b nightly" jake run

Contributing

Feel free to fix some open issues and submit a pull request. Please make sure to file the pull request against the develop branch, which should be the default. Please make sure your code passes the coding styleguides by running jake lint before submitting the PR.

If you want to help translating this add-on, feel free to alter or add new files in src/locale. The extensions name and descriptions have to be changed in src/install.rdf.

License

MIT.