Agreed with motech - sometimes renaming a tab group would be more convenient than splitting out into a separate window. Personally I like to have one window per project, but there might be sub-components of each project that should be grouped together and named, but still in the same window/parent group as the project they're in (e.g. as part of one electronics project there could be a tab group for hardware components and another group for software references).
Vlad any chance named tab groups (within a single window) could still be considered?
You mentioned earlier that editing HTML could solve this. I've tested that and confirmed that just changing the <title>
element of a page's header changes the name in the "Open tabs". I think it could be a really useful feature to add an extra/alternative option for the existing new tab (+) button, to add a "new tab group", which could open up a very simple HTML page with
- an input that allows the user to set the page title (minimum requirement)
- possibly some way of setting the title colour or background colour (like google chrome's tab groups)
- possibly an option to set the icon, and
- an entry that allows typing a short description of what the tab group is about/for
Users with HTML experience can already do that manually, but it would be much more convenient if it was built into the browser rather than doing manual workarounds with a bookmark and local/cached page. That solution also supports arbitrary nesting without requiring any additional development effort.
It would also be beneficial to add support for grouping tabs and folding groups from the horizontal view (at least the top level tabs/groups), but that's less important than the base functionality :-)