Reviews for Tab Session Manager
Tab Session Manager by sienori
1,094 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13400109, 7 years agoExtension is exactly what I was looking for - simple and single functionality of saving sessions. But it does not remember the options set. I have disabled autosave, still it keeps saving the sessions.
- Rated 4 out of 5by reid, 7 years agoI thought I would try this to replace Session Manager, which will likely not work with FF 57. I disabled SM and installed this, saving my session with the toolbar button. When I restarted FF, I only see one tab, which happens to be the first tab in my session. (It's also a pinned tab, if it matters.) The session displayed in the toolbar dropdown has all of my previous tabs, so I'm not sure what's wrong. I did disable the tree-related option in the settings. (I'm using FF 56 still.) Lot of potential here, though!
Update: When I tried loading a session several days later (including after a restart of FF), it did indeed work. - Rated 4 out of 5by ExplodingCore, 7 years agoI really like this add-on because I can use it on FF57+ and it's compatible with Tree Style Tabs.
I have to say though currently I find myself rarely really using it besides for saving the one session that i have every few minutes.
Main reason for that is the restore behavior. Like someone else already mentioned, when you restore a session it opens a new window and loads every single tab of the session.
Loading as in actually opening and displaying each webpage.
It would be much better to have it open the tabs "unloaded" like when you initially start FF.
Next thing would be a few more options and functionalities.
- Prompt me for a session to load on start.
- Make sessions more like dynamic savestates, so i can overwrite them. E.g. I have a session 'General'. When I load that the manager should "know" that the session is loaded and later when the window is closed or the session saved it should save the changes that were made during the session was loaded into that same session state.
Right now you can only save a new session with same name but different timestamp.
- Give option to only save current window or a selection of windows to a specified session. So one can work with multiple sessions at the same time.
- Give option to load session to current window or open in new window / attach to current session or open as independently loaded session.
- use standard UI font
- introduce groups
- save and restore per tab history
With all of this it would be perfect (and basically a clone of legacy add-on "Session Manager")
I know it's a lot to ask and some things aren't even possible yet due to Mozilla not releasing the needed API. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13010944, 7 years agoRight at the time I was looking for a replacement for OneTab this beauty appears. Thank you very much.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Registrierter Benutzer, 7 years agoyesterday i had a closer look to TSM and got a clue how it works and what features.
i also had tab-saver installed and dismissed it now.
but what i miss is an import export feature like tab-saver. maybe not for separate sessions but for all sessions would be nice.
another point to mention is the UI design - i would prefer it more clear, eg:
1 Window, 1 Tab | Open | Delete
(2017-10-19 11-12-13)
Window1
(fav)(tab)
i had a closer look into and that is possible when positioning the div elements in another formation. ofc the css need a polish to fit again.
translating may be more complicated because many strings are hard coded and some are only notify(e.message);
PS @Jacob - running perfect on b9 and now b10 - new window all stored tabs. try a new profile
4* because import/export ;)
a proudfull replacement for legacy "session manager" - wonderful job. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12362519, 7 years agorequest: ability to import Session Manager's data, please ;)
bug: i have turned off "save session when window close", but after restart, there is still a "auto saved - windows was closed" session.
1.3.2, firefox 56. - Rated 4 out of 5by I_Tichy, 7 years agoWorks really well, but adding an option to automatically restore a session when booting up firefox would be great. I like to keep outlook and slack as pinned tabs that start up with firefox, but get rid of every other tab when I close firefox.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12880207, 7 years agoAs a very happy long-term Session Manager user, I salute your efforts here! Simple and effective. This should help with our Session Manager withdrawal symptoms.
A few thoughts for further refinement:
1) Logo barely visible on gray ribbon. A multi-color icon would help visibility for diverse color needs. Look too at Firefox's closed window/tab icon; white but outlined in black, thus visible on any background really
2) A third save scheme (daily) would be useful, perhaps at first use each day, i.e. 12:01am or whenever Firefox is next open
3) The list of saved sessions might be easier to digest as single line entries; you might need to abbreviate some data, such as save type (Regular (or Interval), Daily, Closed, and User)
Thanks for launching this! - Rated 4 out of 5by LCH, 7 years agoThis extension is really nice! Thanks for making it happen! I'm on FF 57 beta right now and session management is pretty messed up. Without this extension I will lose my tabs every time I restart FF.
I found one problem: this extension would save and reopen private windows as well, which defeats the purpose of a private window. I hope there's a way to filter them out of the save, or at least out of the autosave.
A feature request: Is it possible to add a "remove all" button? Remove them one by one can be a pain at times. - Rated 5 out of 5by TheGreenSky, 7 years agoA minimal session manager which does exactly what it advertises. A lifesaver when the Firefox built-in session restore forgets a window or three.
The two (Edit: now only one!) small downsides in my opinion are a) the mentioned missing autosave on exit, or autosaving every 30s but only keeping the newest one, and b) that upon session restore it reloads all tabs - unlike the built-in session restore which loads tabs as inactive or unloaded.Developer response
posted 7 years agoa) I supported saving when exit in ver1.3.1!
b) it probably is not yet supported by webextensions API... - Rated 5 out of 5by msibley, 7 years agoI wish I had thought of using something like this years ago. Works great on the latest Beta of FF
- Rated 4 out of 5by D.Millings, 7 years agoWorks wonderfully in automatic mode with a configurable interval to suit your needs. Supports container state as of ver1.3.2.
Tiniest thing keeping me from 5-staring: Open and Remove are too close together & Remove has no confirmation.
Other than that little thing, I'm as happy as I can be.