Originally posted by dimko
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For what it's worth, a developer stepped up and released an addon that brings back the TabGroups. Useful for those who actually use the feature. It's also nice for those (like me) who don't, and therefore don't need this in core.
All opinions are my own not those of my employer if you know who they are.
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Originally posted by bug77 View PostI still don't see why it was removed. It's pretty useful on desktop.
Plus I use it together with pentadactyl for GUI-less firefox (I have bound panorama to F1 and apart from it, I rarely use any gui elements so they are basically just wasted pixels where content should be).
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Originally posted by woprandi View Post
Because it wasn't used and needed resources to be maintained
Originally posted by Apopas View PostThe external plugin is based in the same code and has the same functionality.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostTab grouping was nice but in my opinion, it wasn't very intuitive. There are extensions that are better. For example:
http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_treest...ml.en#features
It's like saying, this new radio in car, while was nice, not everyone knew how to use it, so we removed it all together.(with no replacement)
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Originally posted by dimko View PostI'd like as few extentions as possible. It may have not been intuitive, but it was good, so why remove it?
It's like saying, this new radio in car, while was nice, not everyone knew how to use it, so we removed it all together.(with no replacement)
For the record - Firefox gained popularity because of extensions. Sure, you're not obligated to add them but on modern PCs, most extensions don't hurt performance in any measurable way. Using your car radio analogy, that's like getting a car where it's sound system has nothing but an aux jack or a USB port, and you decide to use neither. Normally, I would say to use Opera, since almost every nice feature we use today (including tab grouping) was a built-in feature that they started, but nowadays Opera lacks many of their own ideas and isn't innovative like they used to be.
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Originally posted by bug77 View PostIt's still essentially the same as deprecating, since they only moved it to a plugin because it was already unmaintained. Sadly, as much as I like Firefox, it becomes increasingly more apparent they don't have the resources to stay on top any more.
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