1317544 - Add ability to group container tabs

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Security, defect, P5)

Description

[Peter deHaan [:pdehaan]]

Currently I have about 9 open Firefox Nightly windows, each with multiple tabs. Some of them have container tabs, some not.

Regularly I find myself wishing I could bundle all the related containers into their own separate windows.
So having some command where I could say "Window > Group Containers" and it'd iterate over all my open Nightly browser instances and move any containered tabs into a new window for those containers. For example, a new Window with all my "Banking" tabs, a new Window with all my "Personal" tabs, etc. All non-container tabs are ignored. Any empty Windows with no tabs (after container tabs have been moved) can be closed.

Comment 1

[Peter deHaan [:pdehaan]]

Another possibility is when I click on the "Banking" label in my address bar for the current tab, it opens up a dropdown menu of any other container tabs in the same group. That way I don't have to go around hunting for my other Wells Fargo tab in the sea of open browser windows.

Comment 2

[Kamil Jozwiak [:kjozwiak]]

> Regularly I find myself wishing I could bundle all the related containers
> into their own separate windows.
> So having some command where I could say "Window > Group Containers" and
> it'd iterate over all my open Nightly browser instances and move any
> containered tabs into a new window for those containers. For example, a new
> Window with all my "Banking" tabs, a new Window with all my "Personal" tabs,
> etc. All non-container tabs are ignored. Any empty Windows with no tabs
> (after container tabs have been moved) can be closed.

We've added a "sort" [1] button in the test pilot where it will sort all the same containers and place them next to each other, making it easier for users to find a particular tab for a specific context. It's not quite as advanced as the above suggestion, but we'll see what what kind of feedback we'll get with this implementation.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers/blob/fe41394da83da328c51fd03fe0e6e83f20e31aef/index.js#L221

> Another possibility is when I click on the "Banking" label in my address bar
> for the current tab, it opens up a dropdown menu of any other container tabs
> in the same group. That way I don't have to go around hunting for my other
> Wells Fargo tab in the sea of open browser windows.

Similar functionality is currently being added into the test pilot [2] as well. When a user clicks on the "Container" button in the toolbar, they'll be able to see a list of all the tabs that are currently opened within that specific context.

We can revisit this bug once we get more data sets from the test pilot. Hopefully we'll know what worked and didn't work when it comes to these two features.

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers/blob/fe41394da83da328c51fd03fe0e6e83f20e31aef/index.js#L301

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk change per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401020