Reviews for Conex
Conex by kesselborn
83 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13160986, 7 years agoI have found alternate web extensions for my favorite addons.But I'm unable to find any other alternative for tab groups.Will this addon be available before firefox 57 launches?
Developer response
posted 7 years agoYou can install it, however: one of the most important functionality (showing / hiding tabs) is not implemented in Firefox >= 57 yet ... so: whether it's fully functional depends on firefox and is out of my hand. I don't think they will add this functionality for 57 ... perhaps 58. - Rated 5 out of 5by mike, 7 years ago"Nice try", some said...
I'd say I won't upgrade Firefox anymore.
I'll stay with 56th version as long as I can.
Because, as others said already, without hiding tabs it is meaningless. We say here, we can't see the forest due to the trees. I have, for my work, around 70-100 tabs open in 7 groups, so it would be a total mess to have them open in the same window, regardless this tool does screenshots to help finding them.
I don't understand Mozilla's plan. I agree they need to go forward, but some features are mandatory. They should provide them or they lose their user base in no time. These features were their power, without these, a warm 'goodbye' and go to oblivion.
Just to point one more thing: I use a WE add-on that injects its things in the page (a weather applet). WE supposed to be safe but I think it is a new major vulnerability if addon's output is not isolated. Fake advertising if you want, or I apologise for misunderstanding WE's purpose.Developer response
posted 7 years agohey, thanks for the review: please note that hiding tabs is already on the way to be implemented by mozilla (see linked bugzilla issue). This is as well why for the time being, this extension is marked as "experimental".
You can already run this extension with the experiment referenced in the bugzilla bug and hiding / showing tabs will already work (that's how I currently run conex) -- however: this is pretty experimental (instructions are on the conex github page).
I think the migration phase for the new extension will be annoying but in the end we will have a better Firefox. - Rated 5 out of 5by Tim, 7 years agoMy productivity was about to drop rapidly with the loss of being able to use Tab Groups. With this I finally got some of it back!
Can't wait for the show/hide groups to be resolved as that would make things so much easier.
Keep up the good work! - Rated 3 out of 5by Michel Bosseaux, 7 years agoThanks for this addon, if Mozilla provides the missing APIs / Options, it will be perfect.
But i found a bug : The tabs are in the wrong group after importation from Tab Groups datas (a group too far, must be in the previous one).Developer response
posted 7 years agoBug and regressions are tracked here: https://github.com/kesselborn/conex/issues/48 ... it should be fixed with versions > v0.0.49 - Rated 5 out of 5by charles.ee, 7 years agoI like it. Helpful way to get an overview of your tabs and containers via an icon on the toolbar. Very similar in concept/functionality to "Sea containers", except via the toolbar instead of the sidebar. Personally, I use both.
- Rated 5 out of 5by xuyuehang, 7 years agoThis extension should be a lot of people need (If the audit passed ...)
Whether you can provide multi-language translation support with some websites and platforms? Maybe I can be able to contribute Simplified Chinese. - Rated 4 out of 5by kcufuoyeid, 7 years agoTab Groups triples the productivity for me. I can't even remember how I managed with it. Was it Mutiple browser windows, what the hell.
The addon has it's heart in the right place, I hope it can become functional replacement at some point. I will certainly keep an eye on this addon and update my review.
To Mozilla: Thanks for killing Tab Groups, not once but twice! I'm begrudgingly sticking with Firefox but Chrome and Edge are the browsers I will be suggesting to co workers and family from now on. - Rated 5 out of 5by eailfly, 7 years agoTo me, the most imported feature of Tab Groups is hide some tabs and show others. sadly container can't do it for now. But this is a good plugin.