“Great New Mozilla Feature: Persistent Tab Groups”

Jim Roepcke and I were discussing Mozilla about a week ago, and he said that a feature he'd love to see implemented would be a way to have all of the currently open tabs in one window saved somewhere, so that he could go right back to the same "workspace" with a single click.

In a rather bizarre coincidence, this very feature is listed as one of the new features in Mozilla 1.0 RC1. (I've been using the daily builds and reading the weekly updates, but this feature was never brought to my attention.)

When I pointed it out to Jim on Friday, he said, "This rocks my world." Ahem. I think that means he's glad they added the feature.

I'm already addicted to this new feature! While working on a project for a customer, I've found that i can save a lot of time by having five tabs open: one to the site's admin interface (a sort of Conversant control panel), two for viewing and editing messages/pages in the site, one for viewing the site through its (unfortunate) framed interface, and one for comparing everything with their original site (which is being migrated to Conversant).

The project is too big to do it all in one sitting. So, I've saved all of those tabs into a bookmark group, and I can go right back to where I left off by selecting it from the Bookmarks menu.

One last note: In my previous post on Mozilla, I mentioned that recent builds have been very buggy. However, for the last two days I've been using the nightly build from April 19th. It's much better than anything from the last couple weeks: it seems that most of the recent regressions have been fixed.