Reviews for Session Sync
Session Sync by Gabriel Ivanica
Review by nickclarkson
Rated 5 out of 5
by nickclarkson, 7 years agoI have 1 issue; auto-save doesn't appear to work for me. I have it enabled, set to every 300 seconds, but it's not saving any sessions for me. That aside, this addon still worth 5 stars, as every other addon (except the "old" Session Manager") has had real issues. I just manually save every so often now. I like how it uses bookmarks, because they're saved/synching already.
UPDATE: Hi, thanks for the quick response. The issue is a non-issue; I wrongly assumed the sessions were saved in the "Sessions" tab, but I think if I'm right, and from from reading your explanation, that's only the manually saved sessions. The auto-saved session is under the History tab. I think that's what confused me :) I see it now anyway; I just closed FF and then opened and then went to History, and the last session was there (i.e. the previousl current session). I think I was thinking it worked like other similar addons. Excellent addon, tyvm.
UPDATE: Hi, thanks for the quick response. The issue is a non-issue; I wrongly assumed the sessions were saved in the "Sessions" tab, but I think if I'm right, and from from reading your explanation, that's only the manually saved sessions. The auto-saved session is under the History tab. I think that's what confused me :) I see it now anyway; I just closed FF and then opened and then went to History, and the last session was there (i.e. the previousl current session). I think I was thinking it worked like other similar addons. Excellent addon, tyvm.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for feedback and for the nice review even though you seem to have some issues.
I'm not really sure what could be the problem in your case. I think that I quite failed to explain how the auto-saving functionality is implemented and that might create the confusion that saving is not happening. First of all: auto-saving will rewrite the same saving slot and not create a new one each 300 seconds (or whatever time you set). So after 20 minutes, you won't have 4 saving slots but actually the same one updated withing the last 5 minutes. A saving slot is actually created only you open the browser. (If you close the browser and the open it again you will find the previous session saved there and a new one called Current Session which will be used for all the saves from when you restarted the browser) As I don't really use the auto-saving feature that much (I actually disable it for myself) I probably fail to understand how it may be perceived by other user. The way I implemented felt right for me but I've seen some addons that actually keep a copy for each save point so I assume that the behavior I implemented might be unusual or not that useful for some people. I will try to provide some options to configure the auto-saving just the way each user expects it...
I'll try to provide an improved auto-saving experience (as well as better documentation) as soon as possible within the update. Thanks again.
I'm not really sure what could be the problem in your case. I think that I quite failed to explain how the auto-saving functionality is implemented and that might create the confusion that saving is not happening. First of all: auto-saving will rewrite the same saving slot and not create a new one each 300 seconds (or whatever time you set). So after 20 minutes, you won't have 4 saving slots but actually the same one updated withing the last 5 minutes. A saving slot is actually created only you open the browser. (If you close the browser and the open it again you will find the previous session saved there and a new one called Current Session which will be used for all the saves from when you restarted the browser) As I don't really use the auto-saving feature that much (I actually disable it for myself) I probably fail to understand how it may be perceived by other user. The way I implemented felt right for me but I've seen some addons that actually keep a copy for each save point so I assume that the behavior I implemented might be unusual or not that useful for some people. I will try to provide some options to configure the auto-saving just the way each user expects it...
I'll try to provide an improved auto-saving experience (as well as better documentation) as soon as possible within the update. Thanks again.
237 reviews
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Doza_Vikadina, a month agoОтличное и весьма удобное дополнение, поэтому здесь нечего добавить
- Rated 5 out of 5by 敬念法轮大法好远离瘟疫, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by HumanistAtypik, 7 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Jim Aldon D'Souza, a year agoI wish they would add firefox container support. I have tabs stored that are assigned to specific containers, which go haywire when restored in a new session because they get assigned to "no container" and go on a loop
- Rated 3 out of 5by rediffusion, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mostly Harmless, a year agoAlthough not updated for some time, this add-on has consistently worked for me for over 5 years. It's been my go-to research tool when using Firefox. Bookmarks are OK but fall short when trying to do some concerted research but this session manager is fantastic. It's never failed me and syncs easily between devices using Mozilla Sync. Thanks to the dev for this gem and hopefully it stays updated as Firefox progresses.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Montanagrl5, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by EcksDy, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14684093, 2 years agoThis addon does what firefox sync should do. And it does even more. You can setup collections of links. Fortunately firefox sync does sync bookmarks reliably. But it fails in syncing tabs in a reliable way. Here session sync comes in as a convenient workaround.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16850052, 2 years agoLost all saved history when I encounter a PC crash.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoPlease do not use Session Sync for auto history saving. It's not something that it's guaranteed and it's even in the description of the addon on the first line with bold. It's just a feature that is most of good enough but not something that is perfect.
THIS ADDON IS NOT INTENDED FOR AUTO-SAVING OF SESSIONS!
As for saving sessions manually, those sessions are stored into bookmarks so it should be impossible to lose them unless the whole Firefox profile is broken in which case is not the addon fault. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17989927, 2 years agoI use Session Sync since 3 years now and it worked super for me, fast, reliable and neat to use. After a recent computer breakdown, at the computer store they made a new operating system installation and a minor recovery of my data. Mr.Ivanica helped me providing precious information and all the support in order to get the extension back at work again with all my sessions 100% restored.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17422724, 2 years agoExtremely useful addon. I have used this for at least 3 years.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17698144, 2 years agoGreat add-on! Pinned tabs are saved, but not restored as pinned in Firefox on Linux. It would be fantastic to be able to find duplicate tabs also! Cheers!
- Rated 3 out of 5by BryanChance, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17687656, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by irwanwr, 2 years agoGreat add-on. I wish there are options to change the colour or theme of the interface. Something even basic, like; light, grey and dark.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 6010058, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by PeaceByJesus.net, 2 years agoSorry: I had stated that "there is no option to save a session" since I did not see one, or read that this was to be found via mouse hover over a heart icon (like "favorites"). I thought it would be in text, and maybe via right click. As a long time user of the legacy Session Manager I also assumed that this add on would auto save sessions depending on how often you wanted, and where you wanted. And restore local web pages as well.
However, the untitled heart icon does work to save that session as a bookmark, which is good though where the bookmark is saved is not an option.
And I also see via the tutorial (moz-extension://cf54e725-638a-4074-b4ae-b519e7d0f380/data/home/home.html) that Gabriel Ivanica has put a lot of work into this add on and that there are some options!
So thanks for this needed good add on, and it works for me even while using the Izheil Multi-row tabs patch.Developer response
posted 2 years agoWhat do you mean by no option to save sessions?
There's a red heart icon that has a tooltip with "Save Session".
Auto-save is not saving in bookmarks, only manual saving will do so because otherwise I would create thousands of almost useless bookmarks for users.
The addon should work as intended, but in case some other addon creates some weird incompatibility it might not, but that's something I can't fix or change. Though, there should clearly be no issues to save a certain session. - Rated 5 out of 5by asdasd asdasasd, 3 years agoExcellent!!! very few plugins are as useful as this one. I like to have many tabs open and this tool allows me to manage them in a spectacular way. Thank you very much!!!
I hope that in the future it will continue to be updated, even if they don't add more features, it should be incorporated by Firefox natively. - Rated 2 out of 5by dafFDasd, 3 years agoOK, so I have updated the review:
Lists currently open windows and tabs, clicking switches to clicked tab. But no tab delete nor search in tabs functionality. Max Pop up window size is too small. It needs to be a full page in new tab.
Does not auto save sessions.
UPDATE: The „Tab View” button opens a new page instead of a pop up. I'd rename it to something more intuitive (maybe view everything in new tab). It is possible to search the tabs there using Ctrl+g.
But despite the entry being highlighted after exiting from the search, the Enter key does not activate the tab.
Also Ctrl+Shift+V is a bad choice of hotkey. It is already universally reserved and used as „Paste without formatting”. I'd recommend opening in new tab view by default instead.
UPDATE 2: The hotkey can be changed. But the Settings popup closes every damn time I set something. It requires to reopen the stupid main pop up, then the settings pop up again and scroll down again to the last place.
Additionally the developer has not responded to the lack of close current tab/window functionality. This is the most important feature remaining.
Instead of practical functionality, this add-on includes wasteful animations without option to turn them off. They should be off by default or removed completely. It is an (annoying) anti-feature to waste time staring at unnecessary delays in workflow.Developer response
posted 3 years agoHi. I understand that you would expect something from an addon but the description states clearly that the addon is not intended for Auto-Saving of session. At the same time popup size is simply limited by Firefox, that's the maximum any developer can do, simply I can't make it bigger than that because that's and API limitation (nobody knows why just Firefox stupid decisions).
Regarding the full-page or new-tab -> those options are already available
Regarding search in tabs: yeah.. sorry that's a feature that would've been nice but was not able to implement it.
Auto-Save: There is some autosave implemented but not a full-featured like maybe other addons might have, but the whole purpose of the addon is to manually save what you need. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17455306, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SiteBuilderOne, 3 years agoExcellent add-on, highly intuitive.
The ability to dock this in to native FireFox Sidebar would be awesome (Simple Tab Groups has this option). Currently using Tab View working great - thanks!!!