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This is a feature idea I had. I hope someone who works on UI design considers it.

1 - Persistent groups

I use vertical tabs, and I like the idea of tab groups, but I never use them because I don't want them to be ephemeral. As a user, if I'm going to be spending time organizing things with this feature, having tab groups disappear after closing all tabs makes me fee like I've wasted my time engaging with the feature. Tab groups have to persist until users manually delete the group. I'd like for groups to persist even if they have no tabs in them. They are categories with a name in which I would like to organize my browsing, but I'm not going to waste time organizing if I'm going to lose everything by closing tabs.

2 - Auto-grouping new & existing tabs by host name (excluding pinned tabs)

When creating a group, I would like a toggle in the group options ui (where you pick the color and name), to make the group a catch all for any tab opened with the same host name (it would auto-add new tabs with the same host, or existing ones at group creation time). As a matter of fact, when creating a tab group by dragging a single tab over another single tab, when both have the same host name, they should auto toggle on the filtering by host name.

I think this feature would get more use with either of the above changes

Alexandre Leduc

So many damn restrictions. i can't browse anything without getting blocked. why the hell did i move from chrome. I dislike this browser as it is blocking almost all access to my local government websites. including many others.

I can't find any settings to fix this. if i don't solve this within this couple of hours. I'm deleting this crap

Sorry for the anger. but wasn't Firefox supposed to be USER FRIENDLY? because at the current the state it is moving FAR AWAY FORM THAT.

So, can somebody please explain to me why Firefox VPN is now unsupported in so many countries where people can only exercise their freedom of information by using a VPN?

Do local laws and restrictions apply to the people of these countries because of their governments' actions, while those same governments don't even need a VPN to access such information? Instead, they censor it to prevent their citizens from accessing it.

You claim to be sanctioning the "governments", but in reality, you are only sanctioning the "people" — the very people who are actually fighting against their governments' practices.

I tried accessing Canon printer help files and got a message that Firefox was not supported.

I later tried downloading a manual for a BAOFENG UV82 ham radio and it would not do it.

Neither problem showed up when I tried with Windows edge.

Isn't this somehow illegal?

Just in the past few days, Firefox is useless. Cannot access pages. I have not made any changes. Whatever you changed in Firefox screwed everything up. Links give error message. Your links give the same error. I've had to switch to MS Edge do do anything on my computer. Firefox blocked my online banking. Firefox blocked my VOIP phone app. Firefox is keeping me from opening emails.

Summary While Gemini Deep Research was researching a topic and building a PDF report, Firefox's memory and CPU use shot up and the whole laptop became sluggish. System RAM reached 12 of 13 GB. It came back to normal on its own after the report finished.

What I did 1. Opened gemini.google.com in Firefox. 2. Asked Gemini to research a topic and create a PDF (Deep Research). 3. While the report was being generated, the system slowed down badly.

What I measured - Firefox held about **2.6 GB of GPU (GTT) memory**, which comes out of system RAM on an integrated GPU, and it ran at about **100% CPU**. - Total GPU GTT memory in use reached **5.3 to 6.7 GB**, while normal process memory (RSS) added up to only about 5.4 GB. - System RAM reached about **12 of 13 GB in use**, and the system started swapping. - After the report finished, GTT use dropped to about **0.2 GB** and free RAM went back to about 3.8 GB. - Measured from `/sys/class/drm/card1/device/mem_info_gtt_used` and `drm-memory-gtt` in `/proc/<pid>/fdinfo`.

System - Laptop: Lenovo V15 G4 ABP - CPU/GPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7730U with integrated Radeon graphics (2 GB reserved as VRAM, 16 GB RAM in total) - OS: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, kernel 7.0.0-43, GNOME 50.1 on Wayland - Browser: Firefox 159.0.1 (Flatpak)

Questions 1. Is this expected for Deep Research, or is it a known issue? 2. Is there a setting or workaround (for example turning off hardware acceleration, or switching away from the tab while it generates) that reduces memory use? 3. Has anyone seen the same thing in Chrome, or on other integrated GPUs?

Thanks!

I'm currently in macos 15.8.2 that was the start of the issue. Till a few weeks ago I could print to samba mounts without issue in Firefox. Currently nothing gets saved(no requests for permissions if that was an issue, no errors). I have 5 other browsers on this machine, all can save pdf prints without issue. I have been jumping between browsers and moving PDFs printed on my local device for a week.