Reviews for Simple Tab Groups
Simple Tab Groups by Drive4ik
1,805 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13688369, 8 years agoI installed this add-on to replace the Quicksaver add-on so I have to compare this with the Quicksaver add-on.
What I liked is the coloring and the UIs.
But I have some serious issues with this add-on:
The way how it works: Every tab is saved as an URL like "moz-extension://...url=...". When you switch tabs, the tabs of the current group are closed and tabs of the new group are opened. If you click on the tab it takes an additional time to load the tab.
This process costs a lot of time if you have many tabs.
It took me about 10-20 minutes to switch a tab group - to be fair, that one specific tab group had about 2500 tabs which is a lot.
The second big issue is that you lose all your tabs if you uninstall the add-on:
Actually I still have my tabs, but they are stored with the URL "moz-extension://...." and therefore my opened tabs are practically unsuable, but also the history is. Now I have to write my own plugin to remove that prefix from the URL and hopefully I can work again.
Normally I would rate it one star because it was practically unusable for me but to be fair having 2500 open tabs I am not a normal user and I guess there are technical limitations that prevent the tabs to be "hidden" and you have to do it that way with the URL prefixes.Developer response
posted 8 years agoIf you are "not a normal user", then you should understand that I currently do not have the ability to hide tabs because of the limitations of the Firefox WebExtensions API.
If you are "not a normal user", you could go into the settings and remove the checkbox "Enable fast group switching" - and this will disable the functionality that you did not like so much, namely: the URL like "moz-extension://...url=...". You have 2500 tabs - I understand what you have a problem.
About the fact that when you delete the extension there are tabs with the prefix moz-extension - this bug I'll postfix, thank you for finding it.
Thanks for your feedback - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13508375, 8 years agoMuchas gracias, este complemento era lo que necesitaba, esta muy padre por cierto!!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13668810, 8 years agothis is great its pretty much like the old one but better
Developer response
posted 8 years agoI am very pleased, and I will continue to try to please my users!
Thanks for your feedback! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13527587, 8 years agoПо настоящему нужная в работе вещь. После добавления сортировки имен групп по алфавиту стала не только полезной, но и удобной. Сохранение и восстановление конфигурации делает возможным простую синхронизацию на различных компьютерах. Загружаются только закладки из активной группы.
Очень рекомендую всем, у кого в FF сохраняется более 15 окон.
P.S. Обращаю внимание Автора, что автоматического обновления на версию 2.х не произошло.Developer response
posted 8 years agoВозможно обновление не произошло потому что было вручную отключено на странице настройки аддона, или отключено вовсе. Иных объяснений у меня нет.
Спасибо за Ваш отзыв! - Rated 5 out of 5by gaddman, 8 years agoSolid replacement for the old Tab Groups addon & Panorama before that. Very active development.
Developer response
posted 8 years agoI want to make this addon one of the best!
Thanks for your feedback! - Rated 4 out of 5by Meridith, 8 years agoIt isn't really super bad. If you ignore the fact that it adds random groups, duplicates tabs into other groups, deletes tab groups, has basically no instructions, forgets/deletes all tab groups and all that. As I said, if you ignore all that, it's alright.
EDIT: It has since been fixed, quite quickly to.Developer response
posted 8 years agoI'm very sorry for what happened. Please, update addon to latest version. There have been fixed many bugs and added a function for quick group switch
If you can replicate this issue in latest addon version (now v2.1.2) - please contact me by email
Thanks for your feedback - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13682812, 8 years agoyeah i’ve been waitin for that addon. its not perfekt now but on the right way and i think it’s not fair whne some users are crying about some missing features or some little bugs, cause everyone has the possibilitys to write that extension but only Drive4ik did it. so thank you for doin that great thing, cause now firefox is useable again…
Developer response
posted 8 years agoI'm very pleased that you understand this, sorry not everyone can understand this.
Thanks for your feedback! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13682181, 8 years agoUpdated to new version yesterday and moved a group up using drag and drop. Today when I go into a group I get an error message saying it is NULL. Then this error extends to all the following groups. I have lost half my groups. Every time I load a group it opens an additional New Tab to the group. Not happy!!!
Developer response
posted 8 years agoI'm very sorry for what happened. Please, update addon to latest version. There have been fixed many bugs and added a function for quick group switch
If you can replicate this issue in latest addon version (now v2.1.2) - please contact me by email
Thanks for your feedback - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 10941046, 8 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by JosoSXY, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by seb7777, 8 years agoGreat replacement for the original.
Stable (no crash to report).
Efficient & Ergonomic.
Great extension :) - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13681214, 8 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13617297, 8 years agoGreat option for those missing Tab Groups. There is one important feature missing: The option to lazy load tabs. I'm using Tab Session Manager and use the lazy load option but when selecting a group, all tabs in that group start to load. Am I missing something?
Thanks and keep up the good work!Developer response
posted 8 years agoPlease, update addon to latest version. In latest version I added option to fast switch groups and auto load only active tab, not all tabs.
Thanks for your feedback! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13679710, 8 years agoi use this ALL the time . its really good. thanks dev. love you for making my life easier XD
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ayesh Karunaratne, 8 years agoTHANK YOU FOR THIS ADDON!
The former Tab Groups extension was the reason why I didn't move on to Firefox 57. Simple Tab Groups addon is brilliant and works just as good as the former one. Thank you so much, and keep up the great work! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13672922, 8 years agoI couldn't move to FF57 until we had a replacement for Tab Groups. Thanks so much for your efforts on this. I was able to import my tabs from the old plugin, a little rearranging, and I was back in business. The reloading all tabs thing is unfortunate but with the extra speed of the new Firefox, it mostly makes up for it.
Developer response
posted 8 years agoPlease, update addon to latest version. In latest version I added option to fast switch groups and auto load only active tab, not all tabs.
Thanks for your feedback! - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13666862, 8 years agoIt reloads all the pages as soon as we switch tabs and freezes all the website in any group which is inactive there by not allowing any process to work.
Rest It works perfectly love the new switching optionDeveloper response
posted 8 years agoPlease, update addon to latest version. In latest version I added option to fast switch groups and auto load only active tab, not all tabs.
Thanks for your feedback! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13548923, 8 years agoThis is a very promising add-on that is gradually becoming as good as the original. I appreciate your efforts Drive4ik. Keep up the good work!
- Rated 4 out of 5by The Goggles, 8 years agoLove it; my only gripe is that when I switch tab groups, it loads ALL my tabs in that group (which in my case is a couple hundred tabs, so it takes forever and/or crashes a bunch of them). I can't find a way to load tabs only when I switch to them.
Developer response
posted 8 years agoPlease, update addon to latest version. In latest version I added option to fast switch groups and auto load only active tab, not all tabs.
Thanks for your feedback! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12292413, 8 years agoFine addon. The error drop all my open tabs. Wery well
Developer response
posted 8 years agoPlease, update addon to latest version. There have been fixed many bugs and added a function for quick group switch
Thanks for your feedback - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13652450, 8 years agoHi Drive4ik,
Thank you so much for your work and efforts to provide a replacement under FF 57 for the Tab Groups Helper Add-on! Firefox is useless to me without a functioning Tab Groups extension, and this at least got me back up and running.
Having said that, I am hoping you can find time (in between all of your development work!! :) ) to respond to a few questions:
1) Is there a way to bookmark *all* tabs in *all* groups, or any plans to add that functionality? This is utterly essential to me (and I would assume to many others). This was available in Tab Groups Helper under the "More" option on the Groups Bar menu. So far I can only bookmark all tabs within a single group. (Note: I typically have many groups open, so bookmarking them all individually, while possible, is not a great solution.)
2) Any plans to add a Groups Bar similar to the one in Tab Groups Helper? That makes group management so much easier.
3) Would it be possible to add Drag-and-Drop functionality to re-order groups?
4) Would it be possible to default to renaming the new group at the time of creation? (again similar to Tab Groups Helper)
5) Are you aware of a Tab Count add-on that works with Simple Tab Groups? So far I haven't been able to find anything that shows the total number of tabs open, only by group. (Maybe this is a FF 57 issue / limitation...? Most of the tab count add-ons worked with Tab Groups Helper.)
Thanks again!!Developer response
posted 8 years ago1) now I do not plan to add functionality to work with bookmarks
2) I don't understand what are you mean about "Groups Bar"
3) Done) update addon to latest version
4) now it's impossible to do, but I'll think about it
5) you can see tabs count in addon popup
Thanks for your feedback - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13650747, 8 years agoNot a big fan of this. I live and die by my tab groups, so when Firefox did away with them, I needed a replacement, so I downloaded this. After using it for about a week, I dont like it and am looking for a replacement. Why? There are numerous problems with it. Where do I start?
It forgets what pages you had loaded in some tabs
It duplicates not just tabs, but entire groups of tabs
If in tab manager, you delete one tab, it takes you to the top of that group of tabs immediately
But the biggest problem I have with it is this: every time you open the browser or switch between tab groups, it insists on loading every single tab in that groups. Did I mention when I first opened my browser with this installed it put all my tabs from all groups into one group? Yeah, it does that. So I had about 160 tabs and it insisted on loading every one of those pages all at the same time. I've been working to cut back and separate tabs into groups, but I still have maybe 75 tabs in the largest group, and I don't see any improvement in performance. I recommend downloading it because Firefox has screwed us over and this is the only game in town as far as a solution. But before you install it, I recommend minimizing the number of tabs as much as possible.Developer response
posted 8 years agoPlease, update addon to latest version.There have been fixed many bugs In latest version I added option to fast switch groups and auto load only active tab, not all tabs.
Thanks for your feedback - Rated 5 out of 5by Adrien, 8 years ago