Better interaction with tab groups add-ons

[Croydon]

• use Firefox's tab.hide API to actually hide hidden tabs -> Add compatiblity to tab.hide API #183
• Perform real life tests with hidden tabs
• Options: Implement conditional flag on optional permissions Options: Implement conditional flag on optional permissions #225
• (maybe) integrate a tab group button in the toolbar to directly open the tab group configuration page of third-party add-ons
• (maybe) try get the name of the current tab group from third-party add-ons and display it in the toolbar
• (maybe) offering switching tab groups directly from tab toolbar
• potentially candidates tab group add-ons for such integration:
  • Panorama View

[Croydon]

Mozilla will remove tab groups with Firefox 45.

[Croydon]

Reopened, because the situation is a completely different nowadays due to the fact that tab groups isn't a build-in feature of Firefox anymore and the dynamic of add-ons change with WebExtensions.

I want that there is a tab group solution which works nicely together with VTR.

[grahamperrin]

For what it's worth, most of my bets are on this successor to Tab Groups:

Simplified Tab Groups

Recent thoughts, condensed …

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/-/13310/28?u=grahamperrin a week ago under Concern about WebExtensions exclusive strategy from add-on authors and users - Mozillians - Mozilla Discourse, and then https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/-/13310/30?u=grahamperrin gained a like from Dennis Schubert, maybe for the closing remark:

… Pull requests, anyone? :-)

From https://asadotzler.com/2017/10/01/some-nice-things-people-said-about-firefox-57-beta-quantum/#comment-2326 under this week's Some Nice Things People Said About Firefox 57 Beta (Quantum) – Asa Dotzler

… Timescales: I reckon, for the types of extension that are essential to my workflow, there’ll be testing in the first half of 2018 with reasonable maturity in the second half. …

[grahamperrin]

@Croydon just FYI Quicksaver/Tab-Groups#535 (comment) quotes a mention of a straight up rewrite/replacement …

[Croydon]

Firefox 59 implemented a methode to hide individual tabs, empowering add-ons to implement tab group features.

I will implement support for hiding individual tabs in VTR as well to make sure that tab group add-ons work together with VTR.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/TabHiding