However, the migration cost was enormous and could kill extensions maintained by developers in their free time. The advantages were to have one standard with Chrome extension and to develop more easily. Browsers typically allow a variety of extensions, including user interface modifications, ad blocking, and cookie management.īy th e end of 2017, Firefox migrated from the legacy extension system to a new web extension one. Could I make it?Ī browser extension is a small software module for customizing a web browser. If you are more curious to understand the full potential of the Sync Tab Groups extension, you might check the presentation video or read the documentation website. This article tells the great adventure it was to design the extension, interact with the community and plan the strategies. After 6 months of intensive development, the extension was used by 4,500 users on Firefox and Chrome and rated 3,8 ★. You group the tabs by topic and then switch between those groups. Sync Tab Groups is a browser extension to help you manage your tabs.