Reviews for Tab Stash
Tab Stash by Josh Berry
Review by harl windwolf
Rated 4 out of 5
by harl windwolf, 4 years agoI was hoping for this to work and act (even) more like an alternative to tab groups / panorama view, except with bookmarks instead of actual tabs (mainly to avoid having to care about memory and cpu usage). Kind of like OneTab, but with a more intuitive interface.
That's not quite where Tab Stash is yet (from my position). It needs more options to customize the stashes/directories or how they're represented on the list/tab. And more transparency/feedback as to where the most recently stashed tabs go and how they can be handled from there (safely). Also, more keyboard shortcuts.
It doesn't work too well with Tree Style Tab (yet), which doesn't reuse the native tabs, so it's only affected by Tab Stash to a certain degree (including unloaded/hidden ones that reappear on TST). As it is now, Tab Stash can't be a replacement for TST for me, because I don't like the native tabs anyway and Tab Stash doesn't act as a full-fledged replacement for them (unlike TST).
Also, in combination with that, I find it hard to get accustomed to the thought and remind me that I have to look at Tab Stash's tab to see my *other* tabs instead of having them all in one place all the time. (Meaning, it would be nice to have a full-fledged combined display of active and stashed tabs without having to fall back to the native tabs, assuming that separate add-ons like Tab Stash and TST aren't going to be fully compatible.)
Compared to mass operations on actual bookmarks (even hundreds of them), Tab Stash feels kind of "bumpy" handling around 150 (mostly unloaded) tabs.
That's not quite where Tab Stash is yet (from my position). It needs more options to customize the stashes/directories or how they're represented on the list/tab. And more transparency/feedback as to where the most recently stashed tabs go and how they can be handled from there (safely). Also, more keyboard shortcuts.
It doesn't work too well with Tree Style Tab (yet), which doesn't reuse the native tabs, so it's only affected by Tab Stash to a certain degree (including unloaded/hidden ones that reappear on TST). As it is now, Tab Stash can't be a replacement for TST for me, because I don't like the native tabs anyway and Tab Stash doesn't act as a full-fledged replacement for them (unlike TST).
Also, in combination with that, I find it hard to get accustomed to the thought and remind me that I have to look at Tab Stash's tab to see my *other* tabs instead of having them all in one place all the time. (Meaning, it would be nice to have a full-fledged combined display of active and stashed tabs without having to fall back to the native tabs, assuming that separate add-ons like Tab Stash and TST aren't going to be fully compatible.)
Compared to mass operations on actual bookmarks (even hundreds of them), Tab Stash feels kind of "bumpy" handling around 150 (mostly unloaded) tabs.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHi, thank you for the thoughtful review!
You're right that Tab Stash doesn't--and isn't intended to--act as a replacement for the native tab bar. However, I've heard from other folks who are also interested in this, and it's something I'm looking at for future releases. If you have any more specific ideas on what this could look like, I'd love to hear more and discuss further; please feel free to add your thoughts on GitHub: https://github.com/josh-berry/tab-stash/issues
I'd also love to hear more about what feels "bumpy" (again, feel free to open a GitHub issue). One thing I can say is that the bookmark APIs which Firefox provides to extensions like Tab Stash are significantly slower than the native browser UI. But I can't be sure if that's the problem you're hitting without knowing what specifically you're seeing.
But again, thanks for taking the time to write up your experience with Tab Stash, and I'll certainly keep your thoughts in mind for future releases!
You're right that Tab Stash doesn't--and isn't intended to--act as a replacement for the native tab bar. However, I've heard from other folks who are also interested in this, and it's something I'm looking at for future releases. If you have any more specific ideas on what this could look like, I'd love to hear more and discuss further; please feel free to add your thoughts on GitHub: https://github.com/josh-berry/tab-stash/issues
I'd also love to hear more about what feels "bumpy" (again, feel free to open a GitHub issue). One thing I can say is that the bookmark APIs which Firefox provides to extensions like Tab Stash are significantly slower than the native browser UI. But I can't be sure if that's the problem you're hitting without knowing what specifically you're seeing.
But again, thanks for taking the time to write up your experience with Tab Stash, and I'll certainly keep your thoughts in mind for future releases!
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Developer response
posted a month agoThis is likely either a temporary issue, or a problem with a proxy or similar tool that is intercepting and modifying the download from Mozilla. Please make sure you're not using any proxy or VPN tools, or using a network that requires you to go through a proxy, and try downloading again. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18205295, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Turtle, 2 months ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Oxyfrost, 2 months agoWhen I install Firefox on a new device, there are three add-ons that I install immediately: my password manager, uBlock, and Tab Stash. That's how useful this add-on is for me.
I like using it when I have loads of tabs open and I desperately need a clean slate, but I have neither the time or the brain to filter through my open tabs to figure out which are important (and where to save them), and I risk being filled with dread over potentially losing something I want to come back to later. Tab Stash allows me to have the best of both worlds by allowing me to have my clean slate and also hoard tabs.
Filtering through those saved tabs is also super easy, if I ever wanted to organise my saved stuff, or revisit past browsing sessions. Let's be real though, the way I use Tab-Stash is like a kid shoving all their mess under their bed so their room looks tidy when parents come to inspect. Realistically, it doesn't help me to be more organised, because I'm too ADHD for that. What it does help me to do is make peace with my chaotic internet browsing habits, which helps to reduce general guilt from being a mess. For me, Tab Stash is an essential part of my online self-care, because even if it only gives me an illusion of a clean slate, that's good enough.Developer response
posted 2 months agoA little bit (or maybe a lot) of mess isn't necessarily a bad thing! (Pardon me while I just, uh, shove all of my unnamed groups under "Sort Me"... >.>;;)
In all seriousness, I'm really happy to hear that Tab Stash is helping you keep things... maybe not organized, but at least well-contained enough to give you some peace of mind. Thanks for taking the time to write a review! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14273350, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13724807, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18831450, 2 months agoExtremely disappointing, youd think if you opened a groups of stashed tabs there would be an options to open it is a tab group, as I thought is implied in this sentence "Restore individual tabs, or whole groups of tabs, with a single click". Also just breaks when you try to import a stash with a file that doesn't exist on the current computer, hoped for some error handling especially when I had the option of not loading the tabs when they're unstashed. Long list of features but for my use case it isn't any different than firefox's sync, just more cumbersome.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoUnfortunately Firefox itself does not offer a tab-grouping feature today, so the best any extension can do is track groups only within the extension.
Sorry to hear about the issue with import, please feel free to open an issue on GitHub and I'd be happy to look into it further. - Rated 5 out of 5by Bergen2024, 3 months agoSeemingly the first actually good tab grouping add-on I've tried, and I've tried a lot. Works great and very intuitive after the first couple uses.
One thing that could be added might be the functionality to close the menu again by clicking the add-on? Sometimes I only open it to check something, and then having to swap to the other side of the screen to close the sidebar is slightly inconvenient.Developer response
posted 3 months agoThanks for the review and the feedback! You might want to consider using the popup view instead if you want a way to pop open Tab Stash quickly just to check on something. You can enable it in Tab Stash's settings.
You can use both the sidebar and the pop-up view at the same time if you like—just use Firefox's built-in "Sidebar" button to open/close the sidebar, and switch Tab Stash to show the popup view when the Tab Stash button is clicked. Hope this helps! - Rated 5 out of 5by lnd, 3 months agoMelhor extensão pra gerenciar abas quando se trabalha com pesquisa! Não troco nunca mais esse jeito de usar abas, é perfeito, a extensão é muito fluida e com uma interface simples, direta e ainda assim bonita.
Thanks Josh for your work and time around Tab Stash. I would like to "suggest an addition", I really don't know if it's something that belongs in Tab Stash or something you couldn't do for policy reasons, idk... I just know that for me it would be very nice if I could have a timer showing how much time I spent in each tab stash or group. You know what I mean? Hehe, thanks again I love Tab Stash.Developer response
posted 3 months agoThanks, I'm really happy to hear you've found Tab Stash helpful! I hear your point about time-tracking; there may be other extensions out there that can do that as well, though I honestly haven't looked. I completely understand why it would be useful though! - Rated 5 out of 5by nounou, 3 months agoMe sauve la vie (et celle de mon pc) avec tous les onglets que j'ouvre et veux pas les fermer par peur d'oublier le nom du site ou ce que je faisais, avec Tab Stash je peux enfin avoir une fenêtre propre avec seulement ce dont j'ai besoin sur le moment même d'ouvert. Le reste est enregistré et je peux facilement y accéder grâce au bouton dans la barre d'outil qui ouvre une mini fenêtre sur le coté avec tous mes mes onglets sauvegardés et que j'ai organisé par sujet pour m'y retrouver plus facilement.
Je peux même créer des sous sujets dans un sujet pour une organisation encore plus précise, par exemple: (Nom du sujet) Cours, (Sous sujet 1) Biologie, (sous sujet 2) Chimie, (sous sujet 3) Fiche de révisions etc... Ils sont repliables (sujet et sous sujet) donc on peut les laissés repliés pour ne pas avoir à défiler tous les onglets enregistrés, je vais droit au titre ou se trouvent les onglets dont j'ai besoin, je déroule et quand je clique ouvrir l'onglet ou les onglets sélectionnés s'ouvrent après vos onglets déjà ouverts, pas besoin de s’inquiéter que la page sur laquelle vous êtes se fasse remplacer.
Bref, il y a d'autres fonctionnalités j'ai juste parlé de celles que j'utilise tous le temps et elle sont toutes géniales. Je conseille cette extension à tous le monde, même si vous ouvrez peu d'onglets à la fois.
Merci beaucoup au développeur je vous ferai une contribution quand je serai enfin stable financièrement, vous avez développé un outil vraiment sérieux!Developer response
posted 3 months agoMerci beaucoup pour vos aimables paroles et votre avis réfléchi ! Je suis vraiment heureux d'apprendre que Tab Stash fonctionne bien pour vous. Je suis désolé de ne pas avoir pu le traduire dans d'autres langues que l'anglais, mais j'espère pouvoir le faire un jour.
Veuillez pardonner les éventuelles erreurs ; j'ai utilisé Google Translate pour écrire ma réponse. :)
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Thank you very much for the kind words, and the thoughtful review! I'm really happy to hear that Tab Stash is working well for you. I'm sorry that I have not been able to translate it into more languages than just English, but I hope to do so one day.
Please forgive any errors; I used Google Translate to write my reply. :) - Rated 5 out of 5by HyperSource, 3 months agoClean, works in sidebar, and helps organize tabs. 10/10 would recommend if you have a lot of tabs.