TheNamlessGuy
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8 months ago Meanwhile I'd also gladly take colored tab group favicons to more easily see the difference between each group control tab used to activate unique groups.
Sure, makes sense.
An alternative to color-based tab grouping might be togglable options to change all favicons in a group to match each other or to add a prefix to website titles--maybe unique characters or numbers. Togglability might be important for users.
I'm unsure if there's some way the browser can let a plugin know when the favicon or title of a tab has changed. I know it works on page reload, but it might not work for tabs on a single-page webpage. If it's not possible to be told, the only way to achieve this would be to periodically manually check for each tab, and that would take a lot of CPU power for very little gain, so in that case the answer is no. I'll look into it.
If/when group coloring (or some alternative) exists, the ability to keep a tab group expanded/unhidden when none of the tabs are active would let all website titles and favicons remain visible yet clearly grouped. A toggle in a context menu might work if simply double-clicking the group control tab isn't an option.
I was thinking something similar, but that'll have to wait until there's some good way of showing what tabs are part of what group (as you said).
While a group of tabs is active or otherwise unhidden, the control tab for the group would ideally be made smaller than other tabs if possible to avoid getting in the way.
This is sadly not supported by Firefox currently. The closest feature would be tab pinning, but that also moves the tabs around, and doesn't let you show the group name or anything.
Skrad
The planned colored tab grouping would help greatly with visual organization if eventually possible.
Meanwhile I'd also gladly take colored tab group favicons to more easily see the difference between each group control tab used to activate unique groups.
An alternative to color-based tab grouping might be togglable options to change all favicons in a group to match each other or to add a prefix to website titles--maybe unique characters or numbers. Togglability might be important for users.
If/when group coloring (or some alternative) exists, the ability to keep a tab group expanded/unhidden when none of the tabs are active would let all website titles and favicons remain visible yet clearly grouped. A toggle in a context menu might work if simply double-clicking the group control tab isn't an option.
While a group of tabs is active or otherwise unhidden, the control tab for the group would ideally be made smaller than other tabs if possible to avoid getting in the way.