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I'd love to use Firefox, but I've been missing three (subjectively, for me) important features:

1. vertical tabs (now happening, yay!)

2. either tab grouping or workspaces (brave/edge vs. vivaldi style)

3. easy sync-and-restore of tabs/groups/workspaces across my devices

Do you know of a good solution for 2 and more importantly, 3?

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There is an extension that lets you save and sync either all tabs or a certain window and restore wherever. Not exactly what you are looking for I think, but its very useful for me.

I believe that Google had something similar back in the day as an extension to Chrome but removed it.

Great when I am troubleshooting something at work and when done still want the 20+ pages saved for later reference but not open. Or when I am planning for the weekend or researching a product at work during lunch and want to open a bunch of tabs at home later.

https://github.com/sienori/Tab-Session-Manager

Thanks! Does this sync across FF instances on different machines? It's a bit unclear from the description

Sorry for the late answer. Yes is uses Google Drive to sync the information. It is separate from Firefox account and syncs based on the Google account you are logged in with in the extension.

1. Sideberry.

2. Sideberry.

3. Firefox Sync.

Firefox has had these features since at least 5 years ago (#3) and probably 15 years ago (#1, #2 through Tree Style Tabs).

Thanks, but FF sync is not a solution here. That syncs individual tabs, with no concept of workspaces or groups. I don't want to hand-restore those all the time.

aren't workspaces the same as containers? when I right click the new tab icon in firefox it gives me an option to open them in work, personal, banking, etc or to create a new container

3 is also built in, called firefox sync. You can open any tab from any device on another one and send tab(s) to other devices

Sometimes I really wish that firefox sync was a bit smarter. The sorting seems so random sometimes and there is no grouping per window or anything. So when looking to open a tab when the computer has 5 windows with ~5-20 tabs per window open and they appear in a random order it can get very frustrating.

Also sometimes when sending specific tabs to my tablet or phone on android there is no notification, even if the app is open. Then I have to open the sync settings and manually press "Sync now" to trigger the notifications.

For the containers vs. workspaces - I was sloppy with the term, what I meant is different "views" which include sets of tabs. One slight difference is that containers give you a clean slate for each (as in, if you're logged in to a site in container one, you need to re-login in container 2). In any case, it's a good enough solution for me, thanks for the heads up!

"opening any tab on another device" is not what I'm looking for, though - I want to restore entire wokspaces/tab groups/containers across instances, not one by one, then arrange them again into containers.

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