Add "move to different container" ability

[scottbolte]

Very promising add-on. It's not Tab Groups, but I don't need Tab Groups. What I do need is to manage mental context & flow and this is a nice step in the right direction. (Not surprisingly, I'm a fan of the enhancement requests that would show only the tabs in the current container -- out of sight and out of mind is a good thing.)

What I'd like is the ability to move a tab into a different container. The "Open Link in New Container Tab" function is half of the solution, but it's slow and it does not close the existing tab. I'll speculate the meta context (e.g., container specific cookies) makes a simple move of a tab anything but simple. If that's the case, as a stop-gap maybe have "Reopen Link in Other Container". The key is to be tidy and close the current tab as part of the (re)open request.

Use cases:

• After a period of exploring a topic recognize there is a common theme in some of the open tabs. Want to create a new container and move the relevant tabs out of Default and into Whatever.
• A container has grown to the point where it has too many tabs in it, too many with diverse subjects. Need to create a new container and move some of the tabs into it.
• Two containers are found to be too specialized. Want to collapse them into a single one. Could be done with a merge containers function but that seems too specialized. Efficiently moving tabs from one into the other is a more flexible solution.

[grahamperrin]

Move tab from container or to container - Test Pilot / Containers - Mozilla Discourse

https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers/issues/694 and https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers/issues/562 were closed as duplicates of Consider a tab context menu option to convert a normal tab to a container · Issue #311 · mozilla/testpilot-containers, which is also closed.

[jonathanKingston]

You probably want Context Plus extension. I'm going to close this also.

I have created a wiki page here: https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers/wiki/Moving-between-containers

I'm still open to suggestions if you think these issues are solvable without the privacy impact.

[jonathanKingston]

Also thanks for raising and the nice comments. I haven't had much time on this extension at the moment but I'm hoping we can start improving it soon.