Reviews for Simple Tab Groups
Simple Tab Groups by Drive4ik
Review by Firefox user 15097235
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 15097235, a year agoLOVE this extension!
Yup, it's simple, and it's great for keeping organized!
I have a group for "general", one for school, and one each for whatever games I might be into. (Right now Satisfactory and BattleBit.)
Super amazingly convenient to have these tab groups ready to go. They are much more flexible and easy to adjust than a bookmarks folder. Just right click a tab and send it to a group, or use the pop-up, or the manager.
You can even choose to hibernate tabs/groups (or not), but they'll still be "open" for later use. You can have a tab loaded and running some demanding applet, but still get it out of the tab bar so you can focus on something else momentarily. It's amazing.
Some of these functions are available in other extensions like Sidebery, but again I like this one for the Simple aspect. I use this in tandem with Tab Center Reborn for a (again, simple) vertical tabs sidebar, and now my toolkit of tab management is versatile yet lightweight, and still in dark mode!
I nearly forgot that sadly I'm here to comment on a pet peeve. The tab overflow icon, that little arrow managed by the about:config preference browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled, is for some reason inescapable when using this extension, unless you are in the "other tabs" misc group which defeats the purpose.
Something to do with the behavior of the arrow: it is only supposed to appear if you have many tabs, but with this extension I can close all my tabs and just having the tab groups active even when empty shows the arrow. Small irk, very silly for me to be frustrated by, but there you go.
I don't know if I could possibly work around this using the extension's settings, I haven't tried, and I don't know if it could be patched by the extension dev to behave differently. So it's definitely still a 5 star extension. I love all the other stuff it has going for it.
Thanks Drive4ik for the great extension!!
BTW Mr. Dev, if you're reading, any chance for a feature like "automatically discard previous group when switching groups"? Or maybe a button that will switch to a group and discard other groups at the same time? My machine is not super strong and I run multiple apps at once, so it's usually best for me to hibernate inactive groups, and it's tedious to right click -> "discard other groups" all the time. Thanks!
Yup, it's simple, and it's great for keeping organized!
I have a group for "general", one for school, and one each for whatever games I might be into. (Right now Satisfactory and BattleBit.)
Super amazingly convenient to have these tab groups ready to go. They are much more flexible and easy to adjust than a bookmarks folder. Just right click a tab and send it to a group, or use the pop-up, or the manager.
You can even choose to hibernate tabs/groups (or not), but they'll still be "open" for later use. You can have a tab loaded and running some demanding applet, but still get it out of the tab bar so you can focus on something else momentarily. It's amazing.
Some of these functions are available in other extensions like Sidebery, but again I like this one for the Simple aspect. I use this in tandem with Tab Center Reborn for a (again, simple) vertical tabs sidebar, and now my toolkit of tab management is versatile yet lightweight, and still in dark mode!
I nearly forgot that sadly I'm here to comment on a pet peeve. The tab overflow icon, that little arrow managed by the about:config preference browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled, is for some reason inescapable when using this extension, unless you are in the "other tabs" misc group which defeats the purpose.
Something to do with the behavior of the arrow: it is only supposed to appear if you have many tabs, but with this extension I can close all my tabs and just having the tab groups active even when empty shows the arrow. Small irk, very silly for me to be frustrated by, but there you go.
I don't know if I could possibly work around this using the extension's settings, I haven't tried, and I don't know if it could be patched by the extension dev to behave differently. So it's definitely still a 5 star extension. I love all the other stuff it has going for it.
Thanks Drive4ik for the great extension!!
BTW Mr. Dev, if you're reading, any chance for a feature like "automatically discard previous group when switching groups"? Or maybe a button that will switch to a group and discard other groups at the same time? My machine is not super strong and I run multiple apps at once, so it's usually best for me to hibernate inactive groups, and it's tedious to right click -> "discard other groups" all the time. Thanks!
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- Rated 5 out of 5by woam, 2 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13768161, a day ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by AlDragonex, 2 days agoTabs gone after Firefox close.
It happened right after all groups just deleted itself and all 100+ tabs were on main view.
BUT
I just noticed that this extension is making backups every day by default. Due to this, I was able to restore all of the lost tabs.
So am changing rating from 1/5 to 5/5.
That's literally what I need from such extension. Keep up the good work! - Rated 3 out of 5by catto24, 4 days agoWorks as it says, but it keeps downloading files automatically into folders similarly named "STG-backups-FF-137.0.1".
Why does it do this? How do I make it stop? - Rated 5 out of 5by flys, 6 days agoPlease continue working on it. This add-on is much more convenient than the Chrome-inspired, brand-new built-in tab groups feature.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13519681, 7 days agoVery good extension, but it have a very big bug:
When you delete an group, all tabs from all groups are remove. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18925260, 9 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by snorful, 9 days agoAdd-on suddenly stopped working, which was quite a disappointment.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18922131, 11 days agoLegit kept hiding my taps and I couldn't make groups show on the tab list
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17267198, 13 days agoWorks absolutely as expected, extremely useful to me, very happy with that extension.
Only one complaint: I want better control over the folder where backups are created! Because my Downloads folder is clogged with tens of STG folders of different versions... - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12977965, 15 days agoIts nothing Simple. The using give no effects. I'am nowhere see groups.
- Rated 5 out of 5by trftky, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vlijmen Fileer, 18 days agoSimple and effective. Has a few integration shortcomings to my feeling, but nothing in the way of it being great.
- Rated 1 out of 5by MoNad, 18 days agoFirst time using. Had two separate FF 136.0.4 (64-bit) instances open with multiple tabs on Win 10 Pro, up-to-date.
Created a new group, made a typo and deleted the empty group. The main instance containing the tabs (over 30) I wanted to group closed and isn't recoverable, two days of research down the drain.
And now I need to find an alternative. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18588874, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Andwer, 19 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Darkness Paladin, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18906155, 20 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Gemini62167, 21 days agoGarbage.
This one really ticked me off. I've only been using it for a few months, and yes. . . it was great while it lasted. Then after having created a number of very specific tab groups it suddenly went belly up. All the tab groups still exist, but every single one of them is empty with none of the saved pages within them.
To toss salt in an open wound, STG also stopped backing up the groups the day before it did this. Oh, and it had this nasty habit of randomly choosing whatever folder to dump the back ups in with no apparent means of changing that location to a folder of my choice.
In my case it was always my Downloads folder which quickly began to get messy with all these back up files. For the life of me, why the Downloads folder and not an Application Support or Preference folder is beyond me. But hey... what do I know?
Fine...
So, after the loss, all I could do was just restore the damn thing with next closest date and deal with the loss.
Yeah...
Well, the very next day it did exactly the same thing. This, after stupidly believing that it was a fluke, maybe having something to do with Mercury going retro again. Then proceeding to create some new groups that I needed to keep track of thinking that all would be well.
Once again... STG created no further backups and thus every single Tab Group contained nothing but that great big "0" for contents saved.
So, ya know what?
It's time to just stop trusting in these rinky dink add-ons for anything serious or important. Just trust in the basics. I've had too many situations like this happen where I've put time and effort into using add-ons only to have any number of problems. The big three I list below.
1.) Their creators cease supporting them and vanish from the face of the Earth, leaving people to scratch their asses as to wonder if there will ever be an update, fix, or just a simple sign of life from them ever again. A great example of this is the Apple Store. That hot mess is now chuck full of abandon-ware since Tim Cook raised rates for the store. That, and you will be very very very hard pressed to find an actual true free app instead of the ploy used to get you to download some adware laden, extremely limited version that will require a subscription. The good ol' days are long gone now. But considering the past ten years of Apple's arrogance and growing greed, who can blame the developers?
2.) Browser developers change something and suddenly an add-on you've relied upon for years is no longer supported. And no signs of life from their developers are to be found.
3.) Add-ons suddenly become defunct just for the sake of doing so. Developers have long since vanished, and unless someone, somewhere decides to risk taking on that add-on in some way (take Imagus for instance) people can only wish upon a star with their fingers up their holes, sitting and spinning in hopeful optimism like children promised a lolly if they behave at the dentist's office.
Nope. I'll keep using what I have. But, over the past twenty plus years, I've learned my lesson. Don't rely add-ons for serious long term usage. And forget any of them requiring subscriptions. I'm all for paying people for their products. But I'm not for becoming enslaved, ensnared, and transformed into a walking, talking, human, ATM for life paying a subscription for something that eventually will go the way of the DoDo Bird, like so many other add-ons, applications, and apps I've relied upon in the past. - Rated 4 out of 5by Voltaia, 21 days agoWould love if we could sync tab groups easily. Besides a backup. Perhaps some way to sync with Git?