Firefox discontinuing the tab groups feature and suggests Pocket as alternative

Firefox discontinuing the tab groups feature and suggests Pocket as alternative(support.mozilla.org)

6 points by vilgax 10 years ago | 6 comments

smacktoward 10 years ago |

Panorama was such an odd thing. The concept seemed brilliant, the mockups and demos looked great... and then it actually came out and I found myself never using it, despite being exactly the kind of user it was aimed at.

I'd love to read a postmortem from the developers someday, to see if they have any insights as to why it never clicked.

atgc 10 years ago | |

I only used it for the last few months, and while it seemed like a gimmick at first it quickly grew on me. I had a tab group for each programming subject I was working on, with lots of documentation open. Next to these I had groups with things like music streams and Wikipedia searches. For me it was a neat way of organizing, and making sure I could start up exactly where I left off with every project.

They recommend switching to Pocket, but it feels like a mismatch. I thought Pocket was a bookmarking/read later service, while Panorama was about workspaces. It would be great if they could release Panorama itself as an addon.

maelito 10 years ago | | |

An addon would be awesome

jonathonf 10 years ago |

Previously posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10553464

Zekio 10 years ago |

I wish pocket was a optional feature during install or something, instead of having to disable it in about:config...

ibotty 10 years ago | |

That's coming. It's going to be an extension.