Reviews for Session Boss
Session Boss by William Wng
Review by oehmsmith
Rated 2 out of 5
by oehmsmith, 6 years agoI've found good tab managers hard to find. This is one I settled on for FF since it has the functionality I'm looking for (I like to have lots of windows and tabs open). I would give it 5 stars for this reason. There are some bugs like the tabs that have the title but no URL. William W said it is due to the Lazy loading. But it doesn't always happen that way. So its a bug. I see the comment about FF 63+ fixes this. Perhaps it is and i haven't noticed. I'll be sure to look for this now. I appreciate a developer's time writing these addons. It must be tough to receive negative feedback. Kudos for putting it out there. A star is lost for saying "- In fact, the source used to have a GPL license. I've just changed it to closed source because of this review.". Not cool. It looses 2 stars because it has permission to "Access your data for all websites", which from my understanding could include passwords typed in to pages. I understand the Mozilla review process is sound though one still needs to ask why you need this permission. If anything William you need to state the reason why. I would think only "Access browser tabs" permissions are required. Sorry to give what started as a good review only 2 stars.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoAppreciate the reviews. It takes time and effort to write them. I don't mind the low rating and criticism. The feedback help to address some of the shortcomings of the project. What I don't like is people using rating as a hostage hijacking tool to make demand. I changed the license from GPL to closed source for the exact reason. People feel very entitled to open source projects, think they "own" them, and can make demand to the developers. Really, the open source developers owe nobody nothing. They already donate their time, effort, and creation to the public; they don't need more headache. Making it closed source stops all these trouble.
I understand your concern about the permissions and I will spend some time to review the need for the permissions to see if they can be cut back (that would entail a time consuming process of turning off each permission and see what breaks). From what I remember, the "Access your data for all websites" permission was needed to run script on the webpages to set the URL to load the page, for lazy page loading. Also the "cookies" permission will prompt the same message. Access to cookies is needed to get the container "cookieStoreId" property, for saving and restoring container setting of the tabs.
I understand your concern about the permissions and I will spend some time to review the need for the permissions to see if they can be cut back (that would entail a time consuming process of turning off each permission and see what breaks). From what I remember, the "Access your data for all websites" permission was needed to run script on the webpages to set the URL to load the page, for lazy page loading. Also the "cookies" permission will prompt the same message. Access to cookies is needed to get the container "cookieStoreId" property, for saving and restoring container setting of the tabs.