Reviews for Panorama View
Panorama View by photodiode
219 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by We3, 8 years agoExcellent replacement for Tab Groups, already has most of its functionality.
Only one major problem: memory use spikes ~1.2 MB per tab in active window every time I open Panorama View (although it can be reduced with 'Mimimize memory usage' without closing Panorama View). I'm guessing it is taking screenshots of all tabs, even if they haven't been loaded or haven't changed? Can the quality be reduced perhaps?
Minor:
1. going to a pinned tab does not restore previous tab group
2. pinned tabs can be moved between groups but are always visible
3. tab groups can't be scrolled if they include too many tabs
EDIT:
4. sometimes stops working partially: new tabs are not shown in group, a closed one hasn't disappeared from the group and can't be selected or closed, possibly caused by moving tabs between windows. Once after restart I think a tab or 2 were missing, might be related
5. once I had to select each tab group once for the one I was moving to go in front of them, not behindDeveloper response
posted 8 years agoThank you!
Yeah, it is because of the screenshots. It's something I'm continuously working on. It's surprisingly hard to get right. It should only take screenshots of loaded tabs, but it does indeed do it every time you focus the panorama view tab. The ~1.2 MB spike per tab is sadly expected here because Firefox needs to store the raw screenshot for a moment before I scale it down, compress and store it. I hope I can make this better in the future.
How pinned tabs work will be redone.
I will make the group scrollable when there are a lot of tabs too.
Thank you for the feedback! - Rated 5 out of 5by Manish Sainju, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12402544, 8 years agoTab Groups are back! Thank you for the development!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Steven S., 8 years agoReally happy with this extension, works as advertised including the tab hiding!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Shako, 8 years agoVery very close to Tab Groups from before FF57 which is what I was looking for. Few things I'm waiting for before I rate 5/5:
- Ability to arrange/resize tab groups to fill the entire page
- Ability to name groups
- Add a hotkey that we can customize! If not, then a hotkey that the author chooses is fine too. I just want the ability to use my mouse button to open the tab groups instead of moving my mouse and clicking.
UPDATE 4/10/18: Latest updates have pretty much fulfilled the above. Changed to 5/5. Great work!
My only suggestion now would be a dark theme if possible. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13881962, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13874472, 8 years agoI've been missing this since Quantum came out. I do wish pinned tabs wouldn't appear in any of the groups (or were just handled differently), and if double-clicking in the empty space crated a new tab group, but those are minor gripes.
Would be curious to see if some integration with tab containers could work, e.g. having a tab group in which all opened tabs belong to a container.
Absolutely brings back my favourite feature. - Rated 5 out of 5by Lmar, 8 years agoGreat job. And it's work faster than original firefox feature.
I don't like current tabs are hidden when opening panorama, but it's nitpicking - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13868321, 8 years agoLooks amazing! I love the fact that it ties into tab hiding and I can add and rename groups. Instant 4-star for functionality and it was exactly what I was looking for.
I would bump this to 5 stars if it was a bit more visually appealing. Maybe options to color groups and tabs, or change the background of the Panorama View page to spice things up, but I know that functionally it's still being improved on so this really is not a major deal. I will continue to use this addon for the foreseeable future, and it's perfect to use at work. - Rated 3 out of 5by RMR57, 8 years agoI can't seem to be able to save the groups after I have made them. Tab hiding seems to work well.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Termy, 8 years agoStill has some rough edges and needs FF59b with enabled tabhide to work "properly", but that way it is the perfect replacement for my dearly missed tabgroups :D
- Rated 5 out of 5by Preman Kampung, 8 years agoThis is closest you'll get to replace the tab group addon
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13226733, 8 years agoGreat job!
We could restore the tab custom which we used to. With this add-on, it's easy to arrange all tabs we opened.
For the best experience, it's necessary to use Firefox 59+ because of tab hiding function. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13443605, 8 years agoIt is better than nothing and it is even looks familiar to what we had before FF57. But despite it gives ability of putting tabs into different groups it is still missing its main purpose - switching between groups making tabs from other groups invisible.
Developer response
posted 8 years agoThe ability for an add-on to hide tabs will come with FF59, at which point this add-on will support that and finally feel more like what we were all used to before. - Rated 4 out of 5by om2, 8 years agoPlease do not require the user to manually resize or move any of the groups.
If the addon is to be useful I believe is has to, by default after a single click, present all the open tabs as large as possible while at the same time not require any extra interaction.
The concept of resizable containers in the original Panorama addon did not work and you should rather abandon it - it would be much preferred if group divisions were made automatically.Developer response
posted 8 years agoI have been thinking a lot about this, even before I started coding, and it's partly why I haven't started making it yet. I agree that how the resizing worked in TabGroups was a bit weird and I would like to have a better solution. Maybe by having different view options (automatic, manual and list view)
Kind of related: https://github.com/photodiode/panorama-view/issues/1 - Rated 5 out of 5by OM_RA, 8 years ago