Firefox - Is there a way to consolidate windows?

[Muse]

If I have 6 windows open in Firefox and decide I'd prefer to have the tabs in two of them consolidated so that I keep all the tabs but only have 5 windows, is this possible? Maybe with an add-on? I would be a PITA to do it manually!

 

[mulder]

I use Tab Mix Plus and there is a context menu option that will let you "Merge Windows". You could try this out and see if it's to your liking. The shortcut is Ctrl-Shift-M and I'm not 100% certain it is enabled by default. You can turn it on inside the options of TMP under the Menu | Tab Context Menu area.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: mulder
I use Tab Mix Plus and there is a context menu option that will let you "Merge Windows". You could try this out and see if it's to your liking. The shortcut is Ctrl-Shift-M and I'm not 100% certain it is enabled by default. You can turn it on inside the options of TMP under the Menu | Tab Context Menu area.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122</a>

Thanks. I actually already have TMP installed on both my desktop and laptop. Didn't know it did that. I got it for the ability to open the current tab in a new window with a Control-Shift-N. I realized it has lot of other functionality but I hadn't checked it out. I'll look into the options, and specifically the one you indicate.

 

[Muse]

Mmm, I went to a window in Firefox that had two tabs and I wanted to consolidate into another window. I pressed Control-Shift-M. I had around 11 windows open in Firefox. What happened is that 10 windows disappeared entirely! I now have one Firefox window with around a dozen tabs. I have no idea what happened or why. I didn't go into TMP options to check the configuration... 😕

Edit: OMG, the one window has all the tabs! Not what I anticipated. Well, now I know.

 

[Minjin]

I use Tab Mix Plus mainly for Duplicate Tab. That function is absolutely indispensable to me.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Minjin
I use Tab Mix Plus mainly for Duplicate Tab. That function is absolutely indispensable to me.

Me too, and when changing from IE to Firefox, it was that functionality I missed the most and I posted here and was informed about TMP and have been using it ever since. The Control-Shift-M evidently consolidates all your Firefox windows into one window, period. Well, that's my experience from one usage, don't know if it's configurable.

 

[mulder]

TMP is one of my favorites. Still things about it I didn't know. Sorry, I forgot to mention that Muse. It merges every window into one single window. I am not aware of any functionality that will allow you to merge with just a specific window. Don't get me wrong, this might be possible. I just don't know of settings.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: mulder
TMP is one of my favorites. Still things about it I didn't know. Sorry, I forgot to mention that Muse. It merges every window into one single window. I am not aware of any functionality that will allow you to merge with just a specific window. Don't get me wrong, this might be possible. I just don't know of settings.

Understood. Thanks.

Edit:

Ah, poking a bit I came up with this:

In Firefox, Tools menu/Tab Mix Plus options

Click Events icon

tab: Tab Merging

Merge windows when no tabs are selected
Two choices:

1. Merge all windows into one (the default)
2. Merge only current window with last focused (this would do what I wanted!)

Then there's a checkbox, default unchecked:
Also take popup windows (don't know what this means, anyway I think I generally have my browser configured to suppress popup windows)

There's a couple of other checkboxes in that screen.
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Now, it would be a little work but using the functionality here you could reassign all your tabs. You could open new windows and move tabs around to any window you want. I guess this begins to explain why it's called Tab Mix Plus! Neat stuff...