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I keep accidentally doing weird shit to my Firefox tabs and I don't know how to undo it (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by trompete@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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I sometimes accidentally drag tabs rather than click them (touchpad sucks). I already have an extension that prevents them opening as separate windows. But recently new interesting things started happening: Sometimes they "group" together, I have no idea what the point of it is or how to undo that. Just now one of my tabs turned into a mini icon version???

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[–] Edie@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Right-click on the coloured square -> ungroup tabs if you accidentally group them. Right click on the tab -> unpin tab if you accidental pin it.

(You can also ungroup and unpin by dragging them)

Groups are useful if you have a lot of tabs open and want to, you know, group them together based on a topic or something. This is especially true for those that do not know how to use bookmarks and keep 8 gorillion tabs open (I'm not one of them, but I've heard they exist.) Pinning is another feature like this, for tabs you use a lot it'll be easier to find them if they're pinned.

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[–] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Groups are useful but I'm too set in my ways to use them.

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Thanks, maybe you or someone else would be nice enough to answer some followup questions:

So this iconifying is called pinning, do I understand that correctly? How does that help you find a tab? All seems to do is make the tab into a tiny icon.

Also, what am I accidentally doing to make these things happen? I tried making it happen by dragging a tab around and I can't do it on purpose.

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Pinning keeps it perpetually on screen no matter where in the tab bar you are scrolled. Useful if you have a tab you always need and also many other tabs open.

I'm not sure about pinning but for tab grouping you are grabbing and holding a tab directly over another tab.

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Lol okay, this isn't easy to do because the tab underneath moves out of the way like 90% of the time. I cannot figure out why it doesn't sometimes. I also just now somehow managed to create a tab group with just one tab. The tab group dialog popped up when I just released the tab without any other tab underneath. Also the opposite: I dragged the tab onto another tab, there was a blue highlight indicator and everything, I let go, but it just moved the tab anyway without grouping it. That's some serious jank.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

dragging a tab on top of another tab merges them into a "group" containing both of those tabs. it's like making folders on a phone's home screen, and it's exactly the same kind of fiddly because if you're not holding it dead center it assumes you're trying to rearrange them instead so it shoves them aside instead of creating the folder

dragging a tab all the way to the left and holding it there will pin it, a little pushpin icon will appear if you're holding it in the right spot

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't know for certain that "Iconifying" is pinning, but I presume that is it. As WhyEssEff said, if you have quite a few tabs open you will need to scroll to see some of them, but pinned tabs are always shown as a small icon on the left.

I don't know how you are pinning tabs (if that is what is happening) on accident. It seems to me to be hard to do too.

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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

yeah they added tab grouping/folders recently, there's probably a setting to disable it

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

about:config browser.tabs.groups.enabled

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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

rat-salute thanks lol, i was in the middle of a game and couldn't check the settings until just now