Remenber a tab and put the in any new tab without give me possibility to reset or erase that.

It's better than having nothing at all. And the interface is nice. But the execution lacks. I've used this for a few months now and as others have said, when it restores my tabs it appears to pull up the correct tab, but then when I click on the tab and it actually loads, it often (not always) takes me to another previously used URL. So I don't feel like I can trust it.

FORGET IT. Another worth add-on. Closest but "no cigar".
No language, All symbols which are not universal,
NO real Instructions how to RESTORE....
Says will do "magic" but does not tell you where, how to save, how to restore.....
HOW TO RETRIEVE OR REUSE.
and assumes you only have ONE PAGE OPEN.
I have sometimes 10-12 pages open for different projects but appears BOSS only knows about ONE PAGE/SESSION. One of my pages/session has 194 tabs and it seems to save one page but ignores the other 10 pages I need the BOSS to save the tabs for.

Keep looking, this one isnt "it" either. TOO simple, does very little.

I guess for 1 or 2 tabs is ok but why not just bookmark them. What we need is the SESSION MANAGER which Mozilla obsoleted. TOTAL CONTROL by the user, save each open page, hundreds of tabs.....

Outstanding session manager just what Ive been waiting for many thanks

Terrible POS app/extension. This thing will save your session and all tabs but will mix up all the URLs to your tabs so if you use it write them all down. I just spent 2 house getting all my tabs in my windows back since this thing saved whatever URL it wanted in each of my tabs. Useless crap there are much better add-ons just look. Should have zero stars as one is way too much for whatever you call this garbage.

The interface, auto-saving timing, ease of editing are all great.

I like this addon, but I can not keep using it at the current state.
When I open existing or new tabs o after restoring a session, sometimes they are replaced with the contents of any other open tab in the session. It seems like the lazy loading feature has problem relating tab position to URL to load. If this is solved this will be my session manager.
Thanks for your great work

I tried testing this extension, but have decided to keep using Firefox's auto-restore feature. Two reasons:
- Loading a large number of tabs and windows (>100 tabs at times) takes much longer than the built in feature. This extension will load all windows and tabs, but have them remain as "New tab" for far longer than I am comfortable with (somewhere between 30-60 seconds) Testing with 50 tabs takes about 15-20 seconds.
- I have a bunch of hidden (?) tabs from when I used Tab Groups, and in my trial, those tabs loaded in when I used the "Load with existing windows" feature for a manually saved session. From what I could tell, the extension simply made no distinction between normal and hidden tabs. Admittedly, there is nothing from the hidden tabs that couldn't be filed under bookmarks and forgotten, but it does seem to be a compatibility issue.
If these issues are fixed, then I will gladly use this extension to its fullest without the need for the session auto-restore.

Although I haven't used this extension for long, some good points are:
- UI is sufficiently fast and okay to use*.
- Works fine with session restore, though when I tried to close a few windows to clear out my session it seems the last few stayed. I'm not sure whether or not that's Firefox's fault, though.
- You seem to be putting some considerable effort into this extension and listening to feedback.
- It doesn't load in every single restored tab like Chrome extensions do...
- Tab and Window manipulation is extensive and easy enough to use for me
- Tooltips/popover/mouseover text for the buttons that weren't immediately clear.

* Honestly, I would prefer to have something like Session Buddy which I use for Chromium; the UI for it is intuitive and clean and quickly does what I need. Though I'm not very fair in my comparison; my use case for each browser is quite different.

Finally, some other improvements/enhancements I could see are:
- A cleaner and understandable icon
- Number of tabs open on the icon to shame me
- Persist the sort order for the backup pane in each view (those sessions/backups tabs) as well as the chosen view
- Make the font for the descriptions under each window name bigger; the text is aliased and hard to read.
- Ability to configure automatic backups
- Checkboxes for tab/window manipulation, perhaps? Make it easier to work with large numbers of tabs.
- Option to open the popup pane in a new tab. It's a bit cramped.
- Live tab/window manipulation! From what I can tell, this only operates on saved sessions.
- Auto-saving (not auto-backuping) the session each exit would be nice. Eventually I'll want to find something from an older session, and I need assurance that it'll always be there, like my history.

I love this extension and it have all the functionalities I could expect. However I noticed it's causing to my tabs to change for what seems to be a previously saved page in some session, when I open a link in a new tab and go back to it after a short time it starts to load another page and that happens quite often and makes navigation very annoying.

Really Good!

Amazing add on! Great intuitive interface. Active enthusiastic development.

In Mac, closing the firefox window by clicking the red button closes all the tabs while keeping firefox running in background, so automatic session restore does not work unless firefox is quit using Command+Q. Is it possible to restore the session automatically from the last on change backup state when firefox is started when there was no firefox window left. This will make closing and restarting firefox window in mac so smooth, you may make this feature optional in the setting.

FRQ:
1. Automatic session restore by the last on change backup (ie the last closed state) for the normal firefox quit (Command Q) and restart.

2. Restore last on change backup when firefox window opens when there is no existing firefox window. (this solves the continuity issue while closing firefox in mac using the red button.

3. Please change the logo to a simple and modern retina compatible logo. May be a hat, or goggles or anything which is easily discernible. (I could not believe this add on is so recent and active in development by first looking at the logo!)

Best Regards, Keep up the great work.
Milan

great addon. Kindly add option to save single, current active tab to save in session.

Excellent. Convenient time saver. Useful feature set, thoughtful design, stable.

My use case is 2nd display which I use to monitor video streams, messaging, and social media while I work on primary display.

Great work.

FRQ:
1. Save browser window scroll positions with session.
2. Save audio mute/unmute state with session.

I can't delete sessions I'm not interested in keeping. Although I see the menu entry "Delete session" this is disabled, so pressing it doesn't help and I'm accumulating a lot of useless sessions that I would like to delete.

Otherwise, the interface could be improved and better adapted to FF's visual style, but in general it works well and is a relief after the cessation of the old pre-Quantum "Session Manager". Thank you for your work.

Works very well!
I would just like to see a few more features :
- Being able to disable or modify the auto-backup
- Add different categories for saved sessions
- Edit and export saved sessions

I had 4 tabs open. Boss kept telling me session has 10+ tabs. I realized it's some earlier session FF made. I just couldn't save my session until I didn't clear all data. Then it saved my 4-tabs - double; importing session opens 2 FF windows! Of course, there is NO OPTION TO DELETE session or part of it. I just can't believe how bad this addon is.

I've been waiting for an addon that offer some these features (delete/edit/search for tabs, grouping ...) to come to FF for a long time ... Thank you for this excellent and feature-rich addon!

A few features that I hope you consider adding:
- Moving tabs between windows and/or sessions (helps organizing sessions and merging them).
- Using a full-page/tab to view sessions and modify them (makes handling multiple large sessions much easier).
- Option to save Private Windows (helps with browser crashes).
- Remember windows position in a multi-monitor setup.

With the latest update the extension DELETED ALL USER SAVED SESSIONS, destroying a full month's work of extensive reading, carefully selecting and organizing news-sources for a series of very important -to be published- news research articles.

No way to track back all those various sources

REPLY:

It's actually been more than a month's work, I had been using Firefox's function to restore open tabs on startup.

When I used your extension, I saved this information in User Sessions, to be sure.
Since then I've been rarely using Firefox's function to open last session on startup, in order to avoid unnecessary burden on the system. but I had it enabled when the 'incident' happened.

What happened was
1) all User saved Session were deleted, not visible to the extension no more.
2) At the same time, on opening last session with FF (built-in function), the "open tabs" of the previous session were opened, but their URL was empty...
...that is, the number of tabs of previous session were opened, but they were all "new tab" tabs...

...and then Session Boss, started automatically saving the new, empty sessions.

It may have been an issue that came up with the joint upgrade of Firefox AND Session Boss...
...,maybe you could try reproducing the issue this way...

However I did NOT reset the browser or anything, nor were the data of ANY other extension messed with.

I am not operating different user profiles on Firefox.

I also upgraded to last FF version on my other computers, where "last session" (built-in function) was not messed with

I found the extension data file you speak of named "storage.js".

HOW CAN I USE IT TO TRY TO RESTORE WHATEVER DATA IT HAS?

I fear it will have saved the "empty" automatic back-up session, and overwritten the previous healthy one.

Can you provide some directions?


REPLY 2:

Unfortunately all the User and Automatically saved sessions prior to updating were deleted, no way to retrieve it.

I asked at FF Support and they suggested the following:

"Session Boss and Tab Session Manager use a single file named storage.js and it's certainly possible the file became corrupted.....
I think this may be an issue that needs to be escalated because extensions may store many kinds of data that no one wants to lose in a crash.

Firefox allows extensions to use database storage as well as the storage.json file, so extension authors could use that for backups from time to time. I don't know how much complexity that would add."

Maybe something to consider?

Also, an "export" function seems necessary, for safety.


REPLY 3

I understand, and I didn't mean to provide discouragement, but I have to state what I experienced....spend a 4-5 days frantically searching online for some sort of solution.

Not there yet, but I was able to get some previously saved sessions from the the browser's sessionstore-backup folder...

Still need to compare and merge files together, but I am not in that same desperate state.

I can provide no suggestions on a technical level whatsoever.

Your extension is the best I came across for Firefox Quantum, but early in the development issue still have to be resolved.

QUESTION

- Is it possible to save separate sessions to distinct session files?
Or is it necessary to save all sessions under a single file?

My - uneducated - thinking is, perhaps the danger of losing past session might be smaller if the current session was being worked on separately from previous ones.
...don't really know...

Must have plugin! By far the best one among Tab Managers! It uses FF builtin session manager making it much more reliable. I've tried all of them, this one deserves the highest rating, no competition. It auto-saves with a timed interval. It can almost replace OneTab since it shows you all opened Tabs and Windows as well, per saved session, plus you can name your saved sessions. Never run out of your long-winded research Windows by accident etc. Last but not least; The GUI is better designed than the others out there, making it perfect for even the beginner to get what it does.

Good stuff so far. Just needs to automatically save the session upon closing the browser and automatically open the most recent session when opening the browser for 5 stars.

Edit: After using it for a little while now, I've run into a bug that I can reproduce easily. I use New Tab Tools. Open a new tab which goes to the New Tab Tools page, click on one of the pinned sites, click back to the tab next to it, go back to the new tab and it will randomly pick one of your saved tabs and reload it in this new one leaving you with two of the same tabs.