Reviews for Simple Tab Groups
Simple Tab Groups by Drive4ik
Review by Firefox user 15097235
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 15097235, a year agoLOVE this extension!
Yup, it's simple, and it's great for keeping organized!
I have a group for "general", one for school, and one each for whatever games I might be into. (Right now Satisfactory and BattleBit.)
Super amazingly convenient to have these tab groups ready to go. They are much more flexible and easy to adjust than a bookmarks folder. Just right click a tab and send it to a group, or use the pop-up, or the manager.
You can even choose to hibernate tabs/groups (or not), but they'll still be "open" for later use. You can have a tab loaded and running some demanding applet, but still get it out of the tab bar so you can focus on something else momentarily. It's amazing.
Some of these functions are available in other extensions like Sidebery, but again I like this one for the Simple aspect. I use this in tandem with Tab Center Reborn for a (again, simple) vertical tabs sidebar, and now my toolkit of tab management is versatile yet lightweight, and still in dark mode!
I nearly forgot that sadly I'm here to comment on a pet peeve. The tab overflow icon, that little arrow managed by the about:config preference browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled, is for some reason inescapable when using this extension, unless you are in the "other tabs" misc group which defeats the purpose.
Something to do with the behavior of the arrow: it is only supposed to appear if you have many tabs, but with this extension I can close all my tabs and just having the tab groups active even when empty shows the arrow. Small irk, very silly for me to be frustrated by, but there you go.
I don't know if I could possibly work around this using the extension's settings, I haven't tried, and I don't know if it could be patched by the extension dev to behave differently. So it's definitely still a 5 star extension. I love all the other stuff it has going for it.
Thanks Drive4ik for the great extension!!
BTW Mr. Dev, if you're reading, any chance for a feature like "automatically discard previous group when switching groups"? Or maybe a button that will switch to a group and discard other groups at the same time? My machine is not super strong and I run multiple apps at once, so it's usually best for me to hibernate inactive groups, and it's tedious to right click -> "discard other groups" all the time. Thanks!
Yup, it's simple, and it's great for keeping organized!
I have a group for "general", one for school, and one each for whatever games I might be into. (Right now Satisfactory and BattleBit.)
Super amazingly convenient to have these tab groups ready to go. They are much more flexible and easy to adjust than a bookmarks folder. Just right click a tab and send it to a group, or use the pop-up, or the manager.
You can even choose to hibernate tabs/groups (or not), but they'll still be "open" for later use. You can have a tab loaded and running some demanding applet, but still get it out of the tab bar so you can focus on something else momentarily. It's amazing.
Some of these functions are available in other extensions like Sidebery, but again I like this one for the Simple aspect. I use this in tandem with Tab Center Reborn for a (again, simple) vertical tabs sidebar, and now my toolkit of tab management is versatile yet lightweight, and still in dark mode!
I nearly forgot that sadly I'm here to comment on a pet peeve. The tab overflow icon, that little arrow managed by the about:config preference browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled, is for some reason inescapable when using this extension, unless you are in the "other tabs" misc group which defeats the purpose.
Something to do with the behavior of the arrow: it is only supposed to appear if you have many tabs, but with this extension I can close all my tabs and just having the tab groups active even when empty shows the arrow. Small irk, very silly for me to be frustrated by, but there you go.
I don't know if I could possibly work around this using the extension's settings, I haven't tried, and I don't know if it could be patched by the extension dev to behave differently. So it's definitely still a 5 star extension. I love all the other stuff it has going for it.
Thanks Drive4ik for the great extension!!
BTW Mr. Dev, if you're reading, any chance for a feature like "automatically discard previous group when switching groups"? Or maybe a button that will switch to a group and discard other groups at the same time? My machine is not super strong and I run multiple apps at once, so it's usually best for me to hibernate inactive groups, and it's tedious to right click -> "discard other groups" all the time. Thanks!
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13527711, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13675931, 3 days agoIt is incredible that Mozilla still recommends this addon. It used to work great, but since Firefox 132 it has some major issues. For me, first time it lost all groups when I installed Firefox 132 (31 Oct 2024). However, back then I managed to restore them via the addon’s setting. Then it lost them again on 10 Jan 2025 when I installed Firefox 134.
Now as others have reported, with Firefox 135, it is impossible to restore the groups via the addon’s settings. When you try to restore from a backup file, it simply closes the browser and when you open the browser again the groups are not there.
Do not waste your time with this addon. - Rated 5 out of 5by PipperL, 6 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18257827, 7 days agoWhat's going on, please provide a patch. It's very inconvenient.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13173569, 8 days agoError on Firefox 136. Users should not update to 136.
STG 5.3 will be available soon. - Rated 5 out of 5by iG0R, 8 days ago
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- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18761016, 14 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by HumanistAtypik, 14 days ago#labels are not supported. Mozilla should wake up and enter the 21st century!
- Rated 5 out of 5by elitesustenance, 15 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18821650, 15 days agoI've lost all my tabs, this addon is a beyond stupid
- Rated 5 out of 5by NathanZPS, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by GothGlamPrincess, 17 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by pablo, 22 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by DavideF, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by DemClon, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Eren, a month agoIt's an incredibly troublesome addon. Whenever you have to go back to the backup, pressing Load from backup directly closes the browser and when you open it again you realize that the backup has not loaded. So I will be switching to another addon soon.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tertiary, a month agoWorks very well! I find that I can re-access my tab groups when I exit my Firefox window and reopen it. Pretty good for something that has not been updated in more than two years!
- Rated 5 out of 5by lxst, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18793795, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by BnuuyEnthusiast, a month agoJust a frustrating add-on. The grouping workflow is terrible and confusing. Don't use if you want something similar to tab groups of other browsers, because you'll be disappointed.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18788772, a month agoHave been using this for well over a year, but as has happened to many others recently, all 12 of my groups have just emptied all their tabs when I clicked to open one of them. The whole thing seems to have completely scrambled! I have deleted the add-on and will be looking for a suitable replacement. Very, very annoying!!