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Can we manage tab groups from the tab toolbar, by dragging and stacking tabs Opera 12 style?

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Groups are an interesting alternative to Opera12 tab stacking (managing a sort of opera group from the tab toolbar by dragging/stacking). It might be useful to combine the two, retaining the group window, but also allowing grouping and movement at the main tab toolbar. I was hoping to find an add on to do this(?) but no luck so far.

Groups are an interesting alternative to Opera12 tab stacking (managing a sort of opera group from the tab toolbar by dragging/stacking). It might be useful to combine the two, retaining the group window, but also allowing grouping and movement at the main tab toolbar. I was hoping to find an add on to do this(?) but no luck so far.

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It's listed as feature #21 in the description for Tab Utilities.

This feature was proposed 3 years ago (bug 642100), but no developers have shown any interest to date.

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It's listed as feature #21 in the description for Tab Utilities.

This feature was proposed 3 years ago (bug 642100), but no developers have shown any interest to date.

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Thanks for your reply, Gingerbread_man; yes, I found that one for myself, but it doesn't actually work! At least, not Opera style by tab dragging. You have to ctrl click each tab, and then tab-context-menu|stack, to achieve Opera's simple tab drag and drop. And it doesn't put the stack into a group.

Your second link is pretty much what I was hoping for, strange there are only 2 of us interested in this approach! I suppose you never miss what you've never had...

Otherwise (as 10yr Opera user disappointed in Opera's new direction) I am very pleased with my fist steps with Firefox and grateful for all the work on it done to date.

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The hidden option extensions.tabutils.dragToStack does that. Install TU dev version to get Tab Stacking options UI.

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Thank you, TabU. New to Firefox, it's taking me a while to find my way around. DragToStack now toggled, am now very happy bunny!

A bit of hunting from the TU Add-on page found ithinc's pages on https://github.com/ithinc/tabutils/releases/tag/v1.6pre18 and v1.6pre18 as latest pre release. Would never have found these without your pointer, will also help me fathom other adds-on.

Thanks again, & regards grey.heron