Make migration from TabGroups easier

[claell]

As a former TabGroups user, it got deactivated today when updating to FF 57. What I didn't know is that it does not unhide the hidden tabs, which can probably only be fixed by downgrading or using the instructions here denschub/firefox-tabgroups#60 (comment)

So an ideal feature of conex would be to just get those hidden tabs (if possible also with information about the group they were in) without the need of manually migrating from a backup (which I also don't have afaik).

A comment suggests that Tree Style Tab (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/) would already work like this.

[kesselborn]

the Tree Style Tab extension has > 1200 comments -- could you be a bit more specific and quote the comment here?

If you have a session or snapshot from tabgroups? Not sure tabgroups creates such files.

For now, I think I would try the following:

• download Firefox ESR (this still supports old extension) and install it
• close Firefox Quantum
• open Firefox ESR
• if you are lucky, your old session is restored and you can just open tab-groups and create a manual backup which you can use as an import for conex
• if your session is not there:
  • go to tab-groups preferences and open the 'Backup / Restore' section
  • click the 'Load Groups and Tabs From ...' button and select 'Previous Session'
  • once imported, create the manual backup now

... let me know if that works somehow so I could document it more prominently

[claell]

Sorry, it was a comment on GitHub in an issue of the Tab Groups Addon: Quicksaver/Tab-Groups#558 (comment)

I installed it for testing and it is able to display the hidden tabs, but does not show any groups.

I did not manually create a backup of Tab Groups, but I think it creates some automatically (but I think I read somewhere that these won't work with Conex?)

For now I simply used the steps described here: denschub/firefox-tabgroups#60 (comment)
and got all hidden tabs displayed and manually created bookmarks of them.

[kesselborn]

Ok ... closing this issue then.
One more note though: if you go the route with creating and importing a backup, you will get back your tab groups instead of having all tabs in one group.

[claell]

I know, but mostly searched for a way to just unhide the tabs to be able to bookmark them, as I don't want to have so many tabs open as the same time. So it is ok to close this, since it is not the purpose of Conex to do that. I will keep an eye onto this, though since it looks like a good alternative once the API gets adjusted appropriately.