Reviews for Session Boss
Session Boss by William Wng
53 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by bege1, 7 months agoI recommend this session manager rather than the one that Mozilla recommends.
Session Boss saves sessions automatically when changes happen, not in a fix time schedule. No unnecessary backups and nothing gets lost.
You can decide whether to keep or remove the current tabs right when restoring a session. It is not bound to a fix setting.
I am very contented with this session manager. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18285282, a year agoBetter than session buddy, the best session manager
Edit: LIMITED SESSION SAVES - 2 THUMBS DOWN - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17861056, 2 years agoAmazing. Best alternative to Session Buddy in Firefox. Supports Tree Style Tabs also. Perfect! I wish it could also restore favicons.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16024671, 2 years agoVery good, saved me several times. It should be kept up-to-date. Automatic Scheduled Exports would be nice...
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14983551, 3 years agoIntially had the the problem off rare moments where all User sessions would get deleted from a crash or update. Incredible plugin though, i love it. Just make sure you get into the habit of always exporting (backing up) all your user sessions few times a week. Nevetheless, perfect plugin.
- Rated 5 out of 5by SouzaRM, 3 years agoExcellent purpose.
Phenomenal UI/UX!
Unfortunately it has not been updated since Jun 7, 2019 (V. 2.11.2).
Effusive congratulations to the developer. - Rated 5 out of 5by nomoreoperaforme, 4 years agoThis is an excellent add-on but it took me some time how to work it out. Not the most intuitive of apps. But has saved the day a few times now. Best of the session restorers i have tried.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16798532, 4 years agoIt is somewhat slow in my device, but I just have 4 gb. I love this extension, I'm always use it to order all of my different kind of works.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Andrew, 4 years agoI use this mainly before closing Firefox before rebooting my computer. The user session save works really well. I live how it saves the container tab being used. Great work - thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14099140, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ut0a6c, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by CGC, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nevtelen, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Svalbard Sleeper District, 5 years agoThis is a super extension enabling a much more thorough management of windows and sessions than otherwise. Thank you for creating this.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mephistopheles, 5 years agoDid exactly what I wanted! Had to play a bit to figure it out, but wasn't too hard. Wanted to save my session so I could install a new OS
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12362519, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by David Maisonave, 5 years agoSession Boss is on my top 10 list of favorite Add-On (Extensions). It's like a very well organize OneTab, that automatically saves the tabs without closing them.
1) Session Boss has a superb UI!
1a) It has an option to switch from a pop down menu to a full page interface. I've never seen this option in any other Add-On. Great idea.
1b) IMHO, Newbies should use Session Boss with the full page interface at first. It's easier for users unfamiliar with the Add-On to quickly understand and appreciate all its option on a full page UI.
1c) IMHO, The pop down UI is good for quick access, and for those users knowledgeable with the Add-On.
2) I like the scheduled session backup increments, where it saves the last 4 15-min interval backups, the last 4 hourly backups, last 4 daily, last 4 weekly, & last 4 monthly.
3) It has an On-Change backup, which is separate from the interval backups.
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My Recommended Improvements:
1. Remove hyperlink to "Add-ons Manager", and just display it in normal text. Most users know how to access Add-ons Manager, and the current behavior adds more confusion, where the hyperlink takes user to a new page displaying an error message.
2. On the "About the Extension" popup window, add a hyperlink to point to the extension link, where you have a lot more details about the extension.
2a. {Bug} The [x] to close the popup window doesn't work. Nothing happens when it's clicked. User has to click Ok to close the window.
3. Add right click options on the Add-On icon, which would give user two menu options. (Capture All Tabs in All Windows) and (Capture All Tabs in Current Window). See OneTab right click menu option as example.
4. Add option to capture tabs, and then close them. This would be similar to what OneTab does.
5. Allow scheduled backup sessions to be edited.
6. Add option for an On-Close Session Backup. This would capture all the tabs when user closes the browser. This can be displayed on a new tab, only save the last 10 or 20 closed session backups. If programming automatic capture on close can not be done, then add a button to the right click menu to capture session and close the browser.
7. Add help option. It could just take user to the Session Boss extension link for now, until a page with more help can be developed.
8. Add accumulative backup option.
I was expecting that the hourly backup would be a consolidation of the last 4 15-min backups. But it's a regular backup performed on hourly interval. I recommend adding option that would let user choose to have accumulative backups starting at the hourly interval. With accumulative option enabled, the hourly backup would be an accumulation of the last 4 15-min backups, and the daily backup would be an accumulation of all the hourly backups for that day. Monthly would be accumulation of the days. Have a yearly backup with a 12 month accumulation. The accumulative backup can be displayed in a tree view, where a year node has 12 (monthly) children, and each child has 28-31 (daily) children, and each child would have 24 (hourly) children. At the hourly node, it would display 4 (15-min) children, and those children would display exactly what the 15-min backup displays in the current UI. - Rated 5 out of 5by cgc, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13873326, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12916690, 5 years agoThis extension just saved my ass. It did its job quietly, saving my sessions, and then restored my 50 PhD-related tabs perfectly when Firefox went AWOL. I want to give this person a box of chocolates or something
- Rated 5 out of 5by karachin16, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by GraemeL, 5 years agoA comprehensive and flexible tab backup solution that is a life-saver when Firefox decides to lose you session history.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15322057, 6 years agoVery easy to use, has backup feature. Can easily store session of single, multiple window and restore at once. Restore in single click not available in other addons with higher ratings. works Great !!!