Bug 513627

Summary: Tab groups
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: quazgar <quazgar>
Component: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: dolphin-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: All   
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Attachments: Annotated screenshot of tab groups in FF

Description quazgar 2025-12-20 19:25:18 UTC
Created attachment 187823 [details]
Annotated screenshot of tab groups in FF

Since I found out about tab groups in Firefox, I absolutely love them for their effect on productivity.  I would really love to see tab groups in Dolphin as well, since that is my application with the second-most tabs.

If you don't know about tab groups, these are the important traits:

- Tabs can be assembled into groups, by a number of GUI methods (context menu on the tab, dragging tabs into an existing group, dragging a tab onto another tab and holding it there for some time).
- Tab groups are short-lived: once a tab group is no longer meaningful, such as when its last tab is closed, all information about it is lost.
- When a tab group is created, the user may choose a name for it, and a color (few choices, only a limited palette) is assigned.
- Tab groups are denoted by a special "group marker tab", which is colored, and all tabs of this group share this color. (see screenshot)
- Most importantly, tab groups can be collapsed and expanded. A collapsed tab group consists of only the tab group marker, and thus takes up very little space in the tab bar.
- Of course, ideally tabs are also saved and restored when closing / restarting the application.

I know about the possibility to save tabs into a bookmark folder, but that does not solve the problem of always too limited screen space.