14 DAY TRIAL // Idea Town, a Mozilla initiative that will allow new browser features to be tested inside the stable release channel without needing users to install Firefox Nightly versions, has now revealed its first experimental feature, SnoozeTabs.
Currently available as an extension, SnoozeTabs is a smart initiative aimed at reducing the tab clutter that, at one point or another, we all fall victim to.
SnoozeTabs will allow a user to make a tab disappear for a period of time, at the end of which, they will be prompted if they want to reopen the tab and add it to their tab bar.
Make Firefox tabs travel to the future
This will be achieved via a special button on the user's browser toolbar, which, when pressed, will prompt them to "snooze" the current tab for a desired period of time.
Besides options like "Later Today," "Tonight," "Tomorrow," "This Weekend," "Next Week," " Next Month," or a custom date entered via a popup calendar, there are also two "weirder" snooze modes.
The first is "Rainy Day," which will reopen the tab at a random time after 6 months, and "When I'm Free," which will reopen the tab after the user spends more than 20 minutes on social networking sites like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and such.
A SnoozeTabs administration panel is available
In case you change your mind and want to manage the snoozed tabs, an administration interface is available integrated with the browser's default bookmarks manager.
All of these are standard features for the SnoozeTabs add-on, but the team is also planning to add the ability to snooze links when added as bookmarks.
Additionally, Firefox for Android users will also be able to get offline notifications whenever one of their snoozed tabs comes back to life.
The SnoozeTabs add-on will give users a way to hide tabs from the tab bar without using services like Instapaper, Evernote, Wunderlist, and Firefox's default Pocket integration.
Furthermore, with the Tab Groups' future decided to be ousted into an add-on outside the Firefox core, this should also help users replace those daily habits of throwing tabs into a tab group somewhere for reading them later.
But beware that, by adding SnoozeTabs to Idea Town, Mozilla is not guaranteeing this extension as a sure-fire upcoming Firefox feature, and will still make the final decision based on the feedback it will get from users.
