Reviews for Tab Counter Plus
Tab Counter Plus by Oriol Brufau
54 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14019718, 3 years agoWorks as expected and the best tab counting add-ons I tried out
- Rated 5 out of 5by RMDevCorp, 3 years agoGreat light weight extension for those who multitask and have hundreds(sometimes thousands of tabs open). Still some "customizablity" I think could be improved in regards to sizing the font or perhaps changing the size. It is very functional as is however as is, and have been using it for a long time after relacing another tab counter. Thank you oriol.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ross Z, 3 years agoHonestly, this seems to be one of the better tab counter addons on AMO... I've just been through testing about 15 of them, so I should know.
Unlike many addons on the site, the author has a very good description and screenshots and does not skimp on features.
In fact, the only thing this addon doesn't have that I really wish it did is some way to increase the font size (the *only* tab counter addon I found that has a larger font size was 'Tab Count Icon by lllusion3418' but it doesn't have as many options as this one does). I'm viewing from about 10ft away on a 50" TV set to 1920x1080. From there, TCI's font appears ~ 2x larger than TCP's. I can make both out but only just barely on TCP's.
Overall, a very solid addon. I hope increased font sizes become a thing but due to shortage of addons with this feature, I can only assume that it is difficult to do from WebExtensions. If I wasn't holding out for that or I could get me some robot eyes, then I would have no issue calling it the best one on AMO :-)
FF v89.0.2 on Fedora 33 Cinnamon - Rated 5 out of 5by sivulabill, 4 years agoWith 16GB RAM in a pc, this AddOn allows (easy use) seeing a current count of (e.g., 800+) open FireFox Tabs, both entire count and count within current Firefox window. Along with Windows Task Manager (80+% RAM used), alerts me when to shutdown some Tabs and/or reboot Firefox, to free enough RAM to avoid crashing Firefox/Windows
- Rated 5 out of 5by brain8891, 4 years agoI vouch that it is less taxing than other add-ons, you can test it by opening "About:Performance" on a different window in a different monitor, and then opening different tabs on a different window. I also suggest highlighting Tab counter plus entry in "About:performance page.
I also appreciate that it doesn't ask for any invasive needless permissions. Kudos for that.
I like that you can choose SVG icon which shows only the number of tabs, however, the font/numbers looked too fine and small with low contrast, I changed both background and text color, but still it was too hard for me to read. Hence, I suggest to add some customization to change the SVG font values like thickness or font size. Not sure if possible, but hope so. Alternatively, add a third option to just show the WebExtension badge without the Tab icon, meaning just the number.
A suggestion, If possible add number of running tabs, meaning tabs that are not suspended. Reason for this suggestion, you can see how many tabs are running and thus help with troubleshooting. Having said that, if this might taxing then make optional.
Finally, thank you, THANK YOU for your hard work <3Developer response
posted 4 years agoThank you for the kind words! I tried to minimize the performance impact as much as possible.
It's true that the SGV icon doesn't look that good with a big number of tabs, but there is just not enough space. I have https://github.com/Loirooriol/tab-counter-plus/issues/13 about adding font customization, but it may be tricky since currently I change some styles depending on the length of the number.
I agree that excluding suspended tabs would be useful. Actually I already have a draft patch that lets you exclude suspended, hidden or pinned tabs. But first I would like to add some automated test coverage, and lately I haven't had much free time for this. - Rated 5 out of 5by Louie Torres, 4 years agoIt does exactly what it needs to - showing the number of tabs. Maybe it could show the index of the tab like 4/24 or something, but that's just a suggestion.
Again, otherwise, nothing to complain about. Simple and fast. Thank you for your work!Developer response
posted 4 years agoThanks for your suggestion! However, I don't have much space, so 5 characters like 10/25 would be quite unreadable with a SVG icon, and would be clipped to 10/2 with a WebExtension badge.
But it might be possible to just show the index of the current tab, without the number of tabs. - Rated 3 out of 5by joel, 4 years agoperfect except for two issues I had:
- I was unable to change the background color in the preferences for some reason
- there should be an option to not-count pinned tabs.
I hope that the pinned tab feature is added at some point but until then it still continues to be a useful and unobtrusive addon.Developer response
posted 4 years agoIs the checkbox next to the background color checked? Otherwise, the color has 0 opacity, in case you want a transparent background.
I already have an experimental patch to exclude pinned tabs, hidden tabs, or discarded tabs. But I would want to have more test coverage before adding that. - Rated 5 out of 5by John Homebrew, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by zephyr707, 4 years agoSeems the best option available and does not have any added permissions, but is there a way to display both current and global tab count and maybe also total window count? There are some add ons in firefox that do one or the other and some that display both current and global tabs, but none that do all three
edit: great, thanks for the update! I'm sticking with this one, cheersDeveloper response
posted 4 years agoYou are not the first one to request this, so I have just done it! Please check version 3.4 - Rated 1 out of 5by Cocaine Johnsson, 4 years agoUseless on dark theme, there's an open bug report from 2018 that mentions this and nothing has been done to even attempt resolving it.
The solutions are rather simple, either detect the user is using a dark theme and pick a light text colour or let the user set their own text colour.
Functionally broken on dark themes.
EDIT: Since there's no way to reply to comments, here's my reply to you Mr. Dev:
Yes, I did. You can change the badge colour but not the colour of the actual add-on window.
Before you get defensive and dismiss issues, how about you actually familiarize yourself with your own product, eh?
Here, this is the problem since you clearly can't read so good: https://i.imgur.com/KCmVv9f.png
The badge isn't the problem and not once did I use the word badge.Developer response
posted 4 years agoDid you try changing the preferences in about:addons? There you can customize the colors so that they match your theme.
So please get your facts straight before criticizing. Actually, it was me who designed and implemented the WebExtension API that Firefox provides to add-ons so that they can change the text color of the badge! See https://bugzil.la/1424620
On the other hand, I agree that it would be great to automatically pick the colors depending on whether the theme is light or dark. But, as said in issue #15, the problem is that I can't properly do it with current APIs. So in https://bugzil.la/1484840 I proposed a new API, but I don't have time to implement it and convince Mozilla to accept it.
Edit: OK, turns out the problem is about the popup, not the counter icon. That's different than the existing bug report from 2018, and seems fixable. I was not aware of it, thanks for the report! Sorry I was too quick to jump to conclusions.
This problem wasn't actually my fault, since I was just relying on the browser to provide the correct text and background colors. But I have addressed it in version 3.3. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firepal, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Jiří Macich ml., 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ramon V M, 5 years agoThis add-on is simple and light, just what I needed to have in mind how many tabs I have and therefore the amount of RAM Firefox is using. Thanks!
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posted 4 years agoThanks for your words, producing something simple, light and that works well was precisely my goal! - Rated 4 out of 5by SpankyPants, 5 years agoThanks for the addon, it's working well so far.
Have you abandoned it now, or will we see some updates soon?Developer response
posted 4 years agoGlad that you like it! I had not been working on it for quite some time, but I have just published a small update. I will try to keep refining it from time to time. - Rated 4 out of 5by YFdyh000, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by kgersen, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Funtomas, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by fredy peralta, 6 years agocumple su cometido, te dice el total de abiertas y cuantas pestañas en cada ventana.
- Rated 5 out of 5by jerboa88, 6 years agoWorks really great! It's unfortunate that the text can't be made any larger but I understand you don't have a lot of space to work with. Perhaps you could use a taller font to use up more space vertically as the text is a little hard to read sometimes. Thank you sir!
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posted 4 years agoExactly, the problem is that the browser doesn't give me much space. I already experimented with tall fonts, but it actually looked even harder to read :( But glad that you like it! - Rated 5 out of 5by Soustruh, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14554732, 6 years agoThis was the first tab counter extension I've found that works on the Android app.
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posted 6 years agoThanks for your feedback! In fact I only designed the add-on for Firefox desktop, so if it works on Android it's mostly by chance. But I will try to keep this in mind and check that future updates continue working on Android. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14544026, 6 years agoBest tab counter ever. Thank you and congratulations.