# Discontinuation of Tab Groups (Panorama)

**URL:** <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discontinuation-of-tab-groups-panorama/5145>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [November 6, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discontinuation-of-tab-groups-panorama/5145 "2015-11-06T21:17:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![amyt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/amyt/32/20624_2.png) [@amyt](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/amyt)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discontinuation-of-tab-groups-panorama/5145/1 "2015-11-06T21:17:50Z")

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We wanted to give you a heads-up that tab groups in Firefox is going away. You can read about it [here](https://support.mozilla.org/kb/tab-groups-removal). They plan to have the feature removed for Firefox 45, which is coming out in [March 2016](https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar#Future_branch_dates).

If you are a user of this feature, the [TooManyTabs](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/toomanytabs-saves-your-memory/) add-on should be a good substitute. You can also browse all Tab management add-ons [here](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions/tabs/).

Hopefully this gives you enough time to try out some of these add-ons before the feature goes away.

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**Author:** ![MartijnJ](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/martijnj/32/2849_2.png) [@MartijnJ](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/MartijnJ)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discontinuation-of-tab-groups-panorama/5145/2 "2015-11-06T23:31:11Z")

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Shoot, was working on an add-on build on top of Panorama ☹  
So the plans of making a tab group API have died as well?

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**Author:** ![jorgev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@jorgev](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/jorgev)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 11:37pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discontinuation-of-tab-groups-panorama/5145/3 "2015-11-06T23:37:41Z")

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For the moment, yes. If your add-on was going to rely on TabView, I’m afraid it’s best to not pursue it unless you want to implement the whole API in your add-on.

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**Author:** ![MartijnJ](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/martijnj/32/2849_2.png) [@MartijnJ](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/MartijnJ)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discontinuation-of-tab-groups-panorama/5145/4 "2015-11-06T23:46:55Z")

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> [@jorgev](#):
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> unless you want to implement the whole API in your add-on

I might 😛

I knew the risk was there though.  
Looking at the bugs, Panorama seemed pretty dead.

I think you would have really loved my add-on though 😉

Thanks for the heads-up btw.

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**Author:** ![jorgev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@jorgev](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/jorgev)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discontinuation-of-tab-groups-panorama/5145/5 "2015-11-06T23:49:48Z")

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If you create an add-on that at least comes close to do what Panorama does, it would become very popular very quickly.

Just sayin’

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**Author:** ![Pike](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/pike/32/20587_2.png) [@Pike](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/Pike)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discontinuation-of-tab-groups-panorama/5145/6 "2015-11-07T00:02:41Z")

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If you’re the person to code the panorama replacement, here’s my use cases:

I got a default browser, long running, release channel.

I got a nightly channel, with two windows. One window for landscape and carry around, one window for portrait while I’m at my desk with an external monitor.

Each of those windows have multiple tab groups.

Perpendicular to the portrait vs landscape use-case, they’re mostly task focused. As most of you, I’m working on multiple things in parallel. And some things only once every other day, but reliably more than once a week.

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**Author:** ![quicksaver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/quicksaver/32/21077_2.png) [@quicksaver](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/quicksaver)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discontinuation-of-tab-groups-panorama/5145/7 "2015-11-09T20:00:05Z")

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FYI I decided to give it a try myself and port [Tab Groups into an add-on](https://github.com/Quicksaver/Tab-Groups). Not sure if it will turn out into anything yet, but so far it’s not looking bad. 😄

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**Author:** ![Pike](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/pike/32/20587_2.png) [@Pike](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/Pike)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 10:09pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discontinuation-of-tab-groups-panorama/5145/8 "2015-11-09T22:09:37Z")

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@dietrich was heard.

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**Author:** ![dietrich](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/dietrich/32/30807_2.png) [@dietrich](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/dietrich)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discontinuation-of-tab-groups-panorama/5145/9 "2015-11-10T20:44:20Z")

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thanks for the ping @pike!

@quicksaver i’m forking now 😃

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**Author:** ![MartijnJ](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/martijnj/32/2849_2.png) [@MartijnJ](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/MartijnJ)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discontinuation-of-tab-groups-panorama/5145/10 "2015-11-12T14:12:59Z")

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Cool, I’ll keep an eye out.  
Let’s hope they don’t remove any API that code relies on though.

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**Author:** ![irvin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/irvin/32/59482_2.png) [@irvin](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/irvin)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 4:35am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discontinuation-of-tab-groups-panorama/5145/11 "2015-11-18T04:35:50Z")

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Pale Moon also had an extension re-implement Tab Groups:  
[http://www.palemoon.org/tabgroups.shtml](http://www.palemoon.org/tabgroups.shtml)

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**Author:** ![quicksaver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/quicksaver/32/21077_2.png) [@quicksaver](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/quicksaver)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/discontinuation-of-tab-groups-panorama/5145/12 "2015-12-01T12:47:43Z")

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[https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tab-groups-panorama/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tab-groups-panorama/) 🙂