Firefox 4 You Had Me At "Organize Into Groups"

August 26 2010 09:00:00 PM Add/Read Comments [0]
A few days ago FireFox 4 Beta 4 introduced "Panorama" which allows you to group tabs together and switch back and forth between different sets.  You can manually do this today with FF3 by having multiple windows open, but this new ability to create the groups and see a visual representation has already greatly improved my web experience.  I've created groups for "things I'm doing right now", "email, calendar and social media stuff", "articles to read later", "future to-dos", etc.

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The UI experience of Panorama is fantastic.  Groups can be resized and moved and the icons adjust (and even stack) accordingly.  A nice little touch is that the canvas displays grid lines when objects are aligned.

I've experienced a few bugs (it is beta) but I think they may have to due to some extensions I have installed such as Tab-Mix-Plus.

If you have not seen Panorama yet, check it out.