Chrome implemented a prototype, then the spec changed and they removed it, then they implemented the new version. I should have been clearer and said Chrome Canary and Firefox Nightly. Not sure when it will reach stable but probably some point this year, they’ve been working on it for ages and Safari is onboard.
They took the most upvoted ideas from the community forum and started implementing them. Maybe to win some users over, but I think it might be too late for this to have any impact on market share.
I'm also kinda disappointed they just copied the UI from Chrome instead of releasing a refreshed version of the previous implementation. Old Firefox tab groups were like Safari tab groups (or "workspaces" in Edge, Vivaldi, Zen and maybe others), and I think they are way better for organisation. Yeah, STG extension still exists, but having it built-in would be nice.
The chrome implementation is way better than of Safari. I don't use the Safari tab groups because they lack features like pinned groups which i need to find it useful.
The Chrome tab groups are less useful as they don't really present a single workspace with only the tabs from that group, they are just literally a grouping of tabs all within a single workspace.
I use tab groups to switch tabs based on projects and I want full separation of those tab groups. The Chrome and new Firefox groups don't do that.
Definitely the headset, wearing a computer and screen on your face is still incredibly unusual to most people. A big folding screen would be a luxury, but not unusual or particularly niche.
I'm getting the sense that Apple can't substantially innovate in hardware anymore. The M-chips were the last great thing, and there hasn't been much of a reason to upgrade an iPhone or MacBook Pro since. The M4's are a good bump from an M1 but that's about the normal lifecycle of a laptop anyway. The biggest 'feature' on the latest iPhones for me is having a soft-button for mute.
Apple might be missing something if they don't continue into wearables/AR, similarly to how MS missed out on mobile. What else have they got? Or are they happy to follow the MS playbook growing their ecosystem then sucking money out of it, and switching over to services-based revenue.
I hope Apple has more secret stuff and isn't being outdone by Meta (Facebook of all companies) doing VR/AR. I don't see any AI innovation, likely using other parties for the heavy lifting and only using Apple devices as clients or light loads. Their biggest moat (in AI) may be access to all the 'private' iCloud data.
I would much rather have (even) a 1080p virtual screen glasses that I can plug into my USB-C phone without looking like a freak. Better yet connect it to an actual computer rather than media consumption device.
That's good to know. I've found that it is helpful to add Auto Discard Tabs, if you're a real tab hoarder.
What is "the Chrome way"? What I'd like to see is that the addresses are not cached to ram, but either disk or swap (or a combination). I figure these tools are more used by tab hoarders as well, and if they're working as pseudo bookmarks (at least conceptually) I am very willing to trade some loading time and have non-active tabs have high niceness.
100% agree. Most of these apps could definitely use some optimization, but trivializing them to something like "wow few MBs of javascript just to show a text box" makes this comparison completely useless
