Better interaction with tab groups add-ons

[Croydon]

• use Firefox's tab.hide API to actually hide hidden tabs -> Add compatiblity to tab.hide API #183
• Perform real life tests with hidden tabs
• Options: Implement conditional flag on optional permissions Options: Implement conditional flag on optional permissions #225
• (maybe) integrate a tab group button in the toolbar to directly open the tab group configuration page of third-party add-ons
• (maybe) try get the name of the current tab group from third-party add-ons and display it in the toolbar
• (maybe) offering switching tab groups directly from tab toolbar
• potentially candidates tab group add-ons for such integration:
  • Panorama View

[Croydon]

Mozilla will remove tab groups with Firefox 45.

[Croydon]

Reopened, because the situation is a completely different nowadays due to the fact that tab groups isn't a build-in feature of Firefox anymore and the dynamic of add-ons change with WebExtensions.

I want that there is a tab group solution which works nicely together with VTR.

[grahamperrin]

For what it's worth, most of my bets are on this successor to Tab Groups:

Simplified Tab Groups

Recent thoughts, condensed …

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/-/13310/28?u=grahamperrin a week ago under Concern about WebExtensions exclusive strategy from add-on authors and users - Mozillians - Mozilla Discourse, and then https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/-/13310/30?u=grahamperrin gained a like from Dennis Schubert, maybe for the closing remark:

… Pull requests, anyone? :-)

From https://asadotzler.com/2017/10/01/some-nice-things-people-said-about-firefox-57-beta-quantum/#comment-2326 under this week's Some Nice Things People Said About Firefox 57 Beta (Quantum) – Asa Dotzler

… Timescales: I reckon, for the types of extension that are essential to my workflow, there’ll be testing in the first half of 2018 with reasonable maturity in the second half. …

[grahamperrin]

@Croydon just FYI Quicksaver/Tab-Groups#535 (comment) quotes a mention of a straight up rewrite/replacement …

[Croydon]

Firefox 59 implemented a methode to hide individual tabs, empowering add-ons to implement tab group features.

I will implement support for hiding individual tabs in VTR as well to make sure that tab group add-ons work together with VTR.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/TabHiding

[Croydon]

I would like to hear from people which tab group (WebExtension!) add-ons they are currently using 😄

[alreadydone]

Using TabGroup Manager revived in Pale Moon before, recently trying to migrate to Firefox Quantum, now using Sync Tab Groups and it seems to work fine. However, VTR currently doesn't support Multiple Tab Handler, so I am using Tree Style Tab instead. It would be wonderful if you can implement an API for TST as the author explained here: piroor/multipletab#148 (comment) (Sorry for being off-topic.)

[Croydon]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/basic-panorama/ is the best WebExtension I have seen so far which makes use of the tab hiding API.

merged now upstream into https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/panorama-view/

[Croydon]

Post-poned as Panorama View doesn't seem to be actively maintained anymore and Sync Tab Groups doesn't seem to be an equivalent replacement