Reviews for Conex
Conex by kesselborn
Review by Firefox user 14541952
Rated 3 out of 5
by Firefox user 14541952, 6 years agoGreat addon, it uses the new Container additions of Firefox instead the old Panorama View. Excellent!
But please improve following:
1. When "only show tabs from current container" is enabled and a new tab is opened inside a container group, the opened new tab jumps back to the default group. It is moved to the correct group when a website is entered. The behavior irritated me really much.
Please let newly created tabs be opened in the current selected container group.
2. When the addon is used and you open a new tab in which you enter a new URL / search string in the tab, the tab gets closed for a second and is reopened again. This also irritated me much, it's not the default behavior of Firefox.
3. When I want to move a tab to a different container group, I right click the tab and use "Reopen in container". Afterwards it kicks me to the new container group. Please add "Reopen in container (Background) - This would be helpful when I want to move multiple tabs to a new group.
Else this addon is awesome. Please fix this and you'll earn 5 stars for sure. :)
But please improve following:
1. When "only show tabs from current container" is enabled and a new tab is opened inside a container group, the opened new tab jumps back to the default group. It is moved to the correct group when a website is entered. The behavior irritated me really much.
Please let newly created tabs be opened in the current selected container group.
2. When the addon is used and you open a new tab in which you enter a new URL / search string in the tab, the tab gets closed for a second and is reopened again. This also irritated me much, it's not the default behavior of Firefox.
3. When I want to move a tab to a different container group, I right click the tab and use "Reopen in container". Afterwards it kicks me to the new container group. Please add "Reopen in container (Background) - This would be helpful when I want to move multiple tabs to a new group.
Else this addon is awesome. Please fix this and you'll earn 5 stars for sure. :)
Developer response
posted 6 years agoHey, thanks for the detailed review and the feedback.
Just some remarks to your point:
1.) unfortunately this is the only way to implement it -- I would love to change this behavior, but this is due to technical limitations dictated by the Firefox-API
2.) that's weird (or I don't fully understand the problem). It would be helpful if you created an issue on http://github.com/kesselborn/conex with more detailed information so I can fix this problem
3.) from conex version 0.8.0 onwards, the "Reopen in container" is not a conex feature but a Firefox-native feature and therefore out of my influence realm :(
Hope this helps
Just some remarks to your point:
1.) unfortunately this is the only way to implement it -- I would love to change this behavior, but this is due to technical limitations dictated by the Firefox-API
2.) that's weird (or I don't fully understand the problem). It would be helpful if you created an issue on http://github.com/kesselborn/conex with more detailed information so I can fix this problem
3.) from conex version 0.8.0 onwards, the "Reopen in container" is not a conex feature but a Firefox-native feature and therefore out of my influence realm :(
Hope this helps
83 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15135020, 4 months agoSo grateful for this extension. Containers are great, but I wasn't using them all the time until this extension came along and made it not just easy but preferrable.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jacques Amar, a year agoOne of the best tab group management tools I have ever seen. Anybody looking at my Firefox screen asks me "How can I get this on Chrome?"
On top of using the container feature of Firefox to create separate tab groups, it allows for easy switching and easy searching.
I would add a better way to save all the tabs and be able to restore them at precise points, but the rest is just slick and perfect. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17357383, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16722395, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by István56, 4 years agoWhy isn't it possible to arrange the panels in the order I want them to? Tab groups allowed this. No alphabetical order.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Gruvbox-Dark-Cyan, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Laura, 4 years agoLooks like a fantastic add-on, but while it shows up as being fully compatible with Firefox Android, it doesn't seem to actually do anything when installed on Android.
I'll update my rating after I test this on PC. - Rated 5 out of 5by Charlie, 5 years agoBest container add on I've used. Lots of options and shows all tabs open in all containers in a nice tree. Surprised it doesn't have more downloads but maybe it just takes time. Very nice, thank you.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ahmed, 5 years agoA very nice extension however, I miss a feature where you can re-order the containers both in the settings and the list. Is it something to come?
Developer response
posted 5 years agoI am currently lacking the time to do big features, especially as my rewrite did not perform well enough :(
For this specific Problem, there is a work around though: if you go into Firefox preferences (not the conex settings) you can rename the containers. Containers with a leading space (' ') will come first. The more spaces, the higher up. Spaces will not be shown by conex, so visually you won't notice it - Rated 5 out of 5by Antonin, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14387524, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15138048, 5 years agoawesome addons. But is it possible to allow cookies to work across containers??
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14957234, 6 years agoTerrific extension and exactly what I was looking for! I was previously working with tab groups, but now much more like the containerized approach of Conex!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14700785, 6 years agoThanks so much for this pioneering add-on, and for the huge amount of work you must have put into it! I finally found time to try it out, and - it's taking some getting used to, but it's mostly making me very happy. I won't say how many tabs I had in my back-up file ;) but it brought them all back.
My only major problem is not being able to figure out how to change the order of my containers, as they appear in the Conex popup - am I missing something? I tried editing the containers.json file in my profile folder by hand, but it didn't work.
Also - are you - the developer - allowed to change the name of the Conex xpi file in the containers folder to something more easily identifiable? It's a pain searching through the randomly-named list of files to find yours.
Thanks! - Rated 5 out of 5by cr0ybot, 6 years agoAs a web developer, this is the most important add-on for Firefox. If I was forced to remove all but a single add-on, this is the one I would keep.
I need a lot of tabs open at once for many different projects, and I got used to the old TabGroups feature before it was removed. Conex saved me from Tab Hell.
Honestly, Conex is even better than what TabGroups used to be. It was a niche and mostly forgotten feature, and so never received many updates or bugfixes. My favorite feature of Conex is that it utilizes Containers, so my different project tab groups can have different persistent logins for sites like GitHub or Google.
I hope that I have an opportunity to give back to this amazing, open-source add-on. - Rated 5 out of 5by avneeshs, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by hansentanjung, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by TheLittlePrince, 6 years agoGreat Addon and perfectly done! Unlike other products Connex works very smooth at changing containers. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
I hope development has not stopped! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 10822314, 6 years agoThis add-on is a life-saviour. So much important that should be incorporated by default in FF. The only thing I miss right now is that my list of tabs is that long I need to scroll to reach some group when I click on that colourful Conex square. Please will someone implement longer list, that can detect screen resolution and use as much space as possible?
Developer response
posted 6 years agoHey: thanks for the review, developer here: the list can’t be made longer due to Firefox capping the max height :(
Using the search helps field helps a lot making the list smaller though.
Cheers - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14293671, 6 years agoLove this extension! Instead of 8-10 windows with 8-10 tabs each, and fumbling around to figure out which one has the tab I need, I can have just ONE window with all my tabs - but only the tabs of the group I have selected shows! The search/history feature is also excellent. Keeping containers separate so I can be logged into Gmail on three different accounts at once, but none of them know about the other. Easily move a tab from one container to another. Just a huge, huge timesaver!
One question - I'm just now using Firefox Sync on my Android device, I have containers, but when I look for the Conex extension, I can't find it? - Rated 5 out of 5by Cathbadian, 6 years agoI've been using Chrome, a lot. Then this extension was finally released and I could get back to using Firefox with a very good replacement for tabgroups. This extension makes it so easy to keep your browser session organised, uncluttered, and easy to navigate. Massive thank you to the developer! A couple of missing features from tabgroups, but mostly aesthetics and a couple of quirks that don't seriously impinge on the core functionality. Paired with a good session backup solution and Firefox is FINALLY back to where I love using it.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Dr. Clinker!, 6 years agoA great alternative of the old Tab Groups addon. However, it seems that this add-on cannot work compatibly with some tab beautifier such as Tabliss. While my default new tab is managed by Tabliss, any new tab I open will go to the `default` container instead of current container. Any suggestion?
- Rated 4 out of 5by piecevcake, 6 years agoIts got some bugs, but well put together, well featured, good issues site, and fills an essential gap - transferring tabs between containers. One of the BEST is the ability to search for a tab by word, in all your windows, groups, trees and containers, and jump to it. What a headache saver! :-)