Integration with other extensions - Obtain tab metadata

unode commented 3 months ago

Describe the feature you'd like to request

I would like to add support for two other extensions that I currently use Multi-Account Containers and Tree Style Tabs. To begin with, in order to support integrating with these, one would need to be able to store tab metadata. Namely:

The container ID from Multi-Account Containers - this is typically a numeric index
Tree Style Tab position or parent-child info - I'm not yet sure how this is stored but could be extracted as one UUID. Each tab would have a parent that could be another tab or blank. Blank would imply that the tab is displayed at the first-level or root.
Window ID - Instead of restoring all tabs on a single Firefox Window, it would be convenient to restore them in different windows.

Describe the solution you'd like

First I would like to know if it is possible at all to obtain and store this type of metadata.

Describe alternatives you've considered

At the moment I'm reopening (in the right container) and sorting/reorganizing tabs manually after they are restored by floccus. It's quite inefficient and time consuming though.

github-actions[bot] commented 3 months ago

Hello :wave:

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marcelklehr commented 3 months ago

Hi @unode This is non-trivial as we try to support multiple browsers and the API for additional tab features is largely non-standardized, I'm guessing for TreeStyle Tabs it's even not available at all. I haven't researched this, yet, though

hex-m commented 1 week ago

According to this there is a plan to implement tab grouping natively in Firefox.

Tab grouping for Chromium-based browsers is requested in #1343.

marcelklehr commented 1 week ago

Cool! Then this would become more feasible

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