Chrome, tab-grouping, adblockers, Firefox, and Zen browser
Did you know that you can now enable tab-grouping in Firefox by changing one setting in about:config, and it's really easy? Here are the instructions:
Learn how to enable and use tab groups in Firefox. Tab groups let you organise your browsing and can be enabled in a few simple steps.
You guys I am SO RELIEVED about the above tab-grouping revelation re: Firefox, I cannot even.
When my adblocker stopped working in Chrome it basically made the internet unusable for me, and the main reason I wasn't already using Firefox was the lack of tab-grouping. So I had basically no mainstream options, and I ended up using Zen, which is based on Firefox but has an okay workspaces UI that is somewhat like tab-grouping, but it's not ideal and Zen is buggy in a lot of other ways that are sometimes unpredictable. (Google Sheets just was not working well, and I really need that. I reported many bugs but it did not help.)
I was using that for several weeks but there was still a lot of friction and it was adding a lot of strain to my life in a background way that I couldn't prevent.
So finding out that Firefox was rolling out tab-grouping meant I was opening and checking Firefox several times a day to see if my tabs were groupable! And then I learned that you could change a setting in about:config to get the feature sooner…
GAME-CHANGER.
My browser works, my internet experience is immediately smoother and freer, it is SO GOOD to put that stressor down after a horrible few weeks. Like, I feel a bit silly saying that having a bad browser was making my life that much worse, but it is what it is.
