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What can be the benefit of hiding tabs in Firefox

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jbr replied acum 1 lună
Pierre2Grenoble
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Hello all,

I can see that I can access hidden tabs from firefox menu > History > Hidden Tabs. I have non hidden tabs in my permanent session that is saved/reload whenever I close/open Firefox.

I searched in the support section of Mozilla and found that I can use extensions to hide tabs and find these hidden tabs through History > Hidden Tabs to access or simply unhide any of those tabs.

My question is what would be the benefit of hiding any tab? For privacy? If so, is hiding tabs really efficient to protect tabs content and/or browsing history?

I could see that some extensions offer to protect hidden tabs with a password and even automatically unload tabs upon hiding them.

Thanks in advance to shed some light on this hiding feature.

Hello all, I can see that I can access hidden tabs from firefox menu > History > Hidden Tabs. I have non hidden tabs in my permanent session that is saved/reload whenever I close/open Firefox. I searched in the support section of Mozilla and found that I can use extensions to hide tabs and find these hidden tabs through History > Hidden Tabs to access or simply unhide any of those tabs. My question is what would be the benefit of hiding any tab? For privacy? If so, is hiding tabs really efficient to protect tabs content and/or browsing history? I could see that some extensions offer to protect hidden tabs with a password and even automatically unload tabs upon hiding them. Thanks in advance to shed some light on this hiding feature.
jbr
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The built–in functionality is just a fallback measure after addons hide tabs and then get broken, uninstalled, incompatible and whatnot, that users have a safety hatch to access these tabs again.

(What addons offer using that functionality is basically what you researched above — privacy, productivity, organization, collections etc. in ways even replacing tab functionality. It's an "enablement" for these various workflows, nothing particular in itself.)

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TyDraniu
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Hi, I don't think it's a Firefox feature, so we can't say anything about it.

Pierre2Grenoble
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Hi, sorry for my late reaction. You're right: this feature is not :managed by Mozilla but implemented by some tabs management extensions that offer to hide/unhide tabs. Firefox can just identify hidden tabs and offers to unhide such hidden tabs. Still no idea about the possible benefits of hiding a browser tab except for some confidentiality purpose remaining to be proven as efficient.

So no matter about this feature of hiding tabs.

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The built–in functionality is just a fallback measure after addons hide tabs and then get broken, uninstalled, incompatible and whatnot, that users have a safety hatch to access these tabs again.

(What addons offer using that functionality is basically what you researched above — privacy, productivity, organization, collections etc. in ways even replacing tab functionality. It's an "enablement" for these various workflows, nothing particular in itself.)

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