Reviews for Tab Counter
Tab Counter by Perry Naseck
88 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13459513, 7 years agoIt can use a better look but it does what it needs to do.
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posted 7 years agoI would love to add some user-contributed icons! Please open an issue on GitHub if you have any suggestions! https://github.com/DaAwesomeP/tab-counter - Rated 5 out of 5by 1337, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ADvi, 7 years agoCan you please add support for https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/tab-groups-panorama/ to show tab counter for current group only? Thanks for addon!
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posted 7 years agoThank you for your review! Unfortunately, Firefox 57 deprecates that Tab Groups extension. The developer put a note in the addon description. The original purpose of this addon was to create a tab counter that would work with the new addon format used in Firefox 57 and beyond. I am open to adding counters for other Firefox statistics and easily-integrated addons, but I will not support an obsolete addon. - Rated 5 out of 5by Detergent, 7 years agoPretty much does what it promises to do. It counts your tabs.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Mordor Escapee, 7 years agoInstallation does not ask for any permissions, great!
The displayed number looks like sore thumb, too much attention grabbing, I had to change the background color in settings of the extension.Developer response
posted 7 years agoI happy that the addon eventually worked out for you. How should I tweak the default icon and color so that it is initially less intrusive? Unfortunately, I am not the best icon designer. - Rated 5 out of 5by Cyberknight, 7 years agoIt's about 66KB in size (packed), being the biggest contender (the smallest I've tested is 6.5KB, packed). It uses a timeout to update the badge, what I'm not sure is the best way of doing it (I've seen others using event triggers). It may be configured to show total tabs in all windows, tabs in each window or both (although that last option is not very useful, as there is a limit of how many characters can be displayed on a badge). Nevertheless, it has good options and works fine, using WebExtensions technology and is bootstrapped (no restart required).
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posted 7 years agoThanks for reviewing my addon! This addon actually does use event triggers! However, I debounce the events to prevent an overload of updating the badges. This way, when restoring a session or opening lots of tabs at once, the counter doesn't impact the performance of the browser. Also, I apply the badge to each tab individually (as opposed to the default of globally to all tabs and windows) so that if you have two windows on screen, both will always show the right count for their respective window. - Rated 5 out of 5by dev-rke, 7 years agoSimple to use, easy to configure, good performance even with hundreds of tabs, good code quality. Thanks for this great extension!
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posted 7 years agoThank you! Your help in sorting out the performance issues is greatly appreciated. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11807532, 7 years agoVery good replacement for unmaintained tab-counters add-ons. Better than old ones.
- Rated 4 out of 5by stefan_ioan, 7 years agoI opened 41 tabs in one window and one tab in another window. Total 42 ... look at how they are counted in the attached picture:
https://ibb.co/iXiH4aDeveloper response
posted 7 years agoThe note on the counter setting says that the counter can only show four characters (two numbers,slash,number). This is a limitation of Firefox. - Rated 4 out of 5by Quinlan M, 8 years agoDecent replacement for https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-counter/ that works with multiprocess, but the icon and box around the number is distracting. Please add an option to have it display as a number in the same font as Firefox and nothing more.
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posted 8 years agoUnfortunately, the new addons API does not give me control of the font. I can only control the color of the box around the text and the icon. I cannot remove the box. Please try the option in the addon's preferences to use a clear icon that basically hides it. - Rated 5 out of 5by Noah Davis, 8 years agoThe icon doesn't clearly communicate the purpose of the addon to me, but that doesn't really matter. Maybe it would be fine if the icon looked more like a tab and less like a line with bends in it.
There is an option to set the addon's icon to transparent and just leave the little thing that says how many tabs there are. It's nice that there is a little popup when you click on the addon icon that tells you how many tabs you have open in the current window and how many you have total.Developer response
posted 8 years agoThanks for the review! I neglected to add screenshots before; I've added them now. - Rated 5 out of 5by Bout's Morgan, 8 years agoIf I change colour for black, Tab Counter is always in red.
You're welcome. I use Firefox 52.0 x86 and Cyberfox 52.0 x86 (Intel).Developer response
posted 8 years agoThank you for trying about my new addon! I'm not having this issue, but I think I may know what's causing it. What version of Firefox are you running?
Please try v0.0.2 from here: https://github.com/DaAwesomeP/tab-counter/releases/tag/v0.0.2
In about:addons, click the gear in the top right to install from a ZIP file.