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Reviews for HoldTab

HoldTab by Mikhail Vyrtsev

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24 reviews
  • by sudo, 4 months ago
    Hello dude, what is *the privacy policy* of this addon? I will change the rating from 2 to 5 if this plugin is privacy respecting, otherwise I will change it to 1. Cheers & have a nice day 🍺
  • by Laji, 5 months ago
  • by Hollytryx, 2 years ago
  • by Tehkos, 4 years ago
    Nice, it still works even without updates. I forgot that my tabs are held by the extension. I thought it's some option built in firefox.
  • by jamesven001, 4 years ago
    Your add-on is awesome it really helps me in my assignments, buat there is a problem, it isn´t working on Firefox 87.0. I have checked that, on my other laptop where I have Firefox 86.0.01 it is working, but on the newest one it isn´t. Could you fix it?
  • by Alek Lunhaj Tanir, 5 years ago
    Please add some more functions for to loading block:- 1)If a loaded tab reactivated i.e. tab reloading(to stop),
    2)Enable functions at this site url,
    3)Highlight unloaded tab while its opened,
    4)Make settings option to block loading when activated also and the url in the addressbar will exist with waiting for to hit enter to go to site,
    5)The link which is opened in new tab and switched(activated) to it - make a function for that to stop load; just created an working bookmark.
  • by Firefox user 14673123, 5 years ago
    Basically a good add-on but it should stop loading pages after receiving the page title. Otherwise you'll end up with 50 tabs, not knowing which is which...
  • by Wasa, 5 years ago
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  • by B Tang, 6 years ago
    Works as advertised. When you Ctrl-click a bookmark folder, all the tabs in it open but do not load until you click them. Similar to "load background tabs on select" extension, and the former Load Tab on Select.
  • by Andralon, 6 years ago
  • by Jean-Ricky, 7 years ago
  • by Les Merlotta, 7 years ago
    Exactly what I needed! Thank you developer!
  • by Firefox user 13652537, 7 years ago
  • by Firefox user 13531551, 7 years ago
    Not working for me

    Cmd line -url load
    Home pages load

    ©Google Translate
  • by bets marc, 7 years ago
    Not easy to use because unloaded tabs don't show favicon and page title. So when I open a group of tabs I can't find what I'm looking for. Would be perfect if it did load icon and title.
  • by Firefox user 13480842, 7 years ago
  • by Firefox user 13471176, 7 years ago
    Does what it is suposed to do but there are two things I miss.
    1. It should keep Backroundtabs loading e.g. Youtube so it doesnt stop playing the music after some time
    2. It should tell the page name that the tab contains that would be perfect
  • by Firefox user 12806920, 7 years ago
    The addon does what it says, but the user experience would be greatly improved if the unloaded tabs still showed favicon and page title of the unloaded page. Using this addon with Firefox' new container feature, gives a lot of unnamed tabs when switching between containers.
  • by ChangeMachine, 7 years ago
    Sorry for posting this here, but I don't know how else to ask for info on your addon (for all users to see). Could you explain why this addon needs the permissions it does? Thanks.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Well, it's a great question, and I'm not satisfied with number of permissions as well, but they all necessary for nice ux.
    - "storage" is for storing preferences
    - "tabs" to listen for tab creation and activation events
    - "webRequest" and "webRequestBlocking" are for saving and restoring request info such as referrer for example. And most of all to quickly get url of the created tab before it start load content to avoid duplication of requests.
    - "history" is not necessary, but is used to remove extension holder page so it doesn't spam the history.
    - is used with webRequest. I think this is what behind "access all data on all websites".

    You may inspect the code itself at https://github.com/Reeywhaar/holdtab and if some permission is not necessary, I am all open for improvement.
  • by Firefox user 13323649, 7 years ago
    Using nightly version of firefox. I couldn't get a tab suspender that worked well for nightly. This works more than decently for pausing tabs that load ( especially ones with audio like youtube). Too lazy to verify my account but this is a real review.
  • by J. L., 7 years ago
    Could it be possible to add an option to deactivate the animation of the favicon?
  • by Juanka Hula, 7 years ago
    Could you consider if possible adding a blacklist feature (aka load on select only happens on those pages) because it's useful for the kind of pages you mention in the description but on normal browsing it can be bothersome sometimes.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Dear Juanka,
    I have added this feature and it will go into next release. Right now it in beta phase, so I can test it for a while. You can test it as well by installing beta version at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/holdtab/versions/beta?page=1#version-0.0.10pre3

    Thank you.