Reviews for Session Boss
Session Boss by William Wng
Response by William Wng
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.