Bug 513627 - Tab groups
Summary: Tab groups
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: unspecified All
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee
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Reported: 2025-12-20 19:25 UTC by quazgar
Modified: 2025-12-20 19:25 UTC (History)
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Annotated screenshot of tab groups in FF (59.52 KB, image/png)
2025-12-20 19:25 UTC, quazgar
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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.