Reviews for Tab Stash
Tab Stash by Josh Berry
496 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by db, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by John01, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DeathGabox, 3 years agoJust like mgkrupa said [(I heard that Mozilla is working on finally giving Firefox its own tab manager, so we'll see if tab manager plugins become unnecessary)].
This is with all my love and I hope the message is understood <3
I hope that all extensions like these are needed again and firefox adopts them natively, I find this extension perfect, it has magnificent synchronization, I can be between my PCs without having to look for another one or search for it in an endless list of pages/History, the I can separate it into different lists and it is simply magnificent, the only pity is that it is not available on the phone through the screen interface, as I see it, the extension does not consume cpu or memory in a strange way, hopefully the rumor that I read is true and firefox take all window managers and unify them, hopefully this extension will work natively :)
Translated from Spanish to English by Google translator, any inconsistency is due to thatDeveloper response
posted 3 years agoThanks for your review, and I’m glad you’re finding Tab Stash useful!
I also hope that Firefox gains more native tab-management features. Or at least, offers more/better ways for tab-management extensions to integrate into the browser. And I hear you on mobile; I have no way to run/develop on Android right now and Apple doesn’t allow extensions at all. Maybe one day! - Rated 5 out of 5by Jeffrey Smith, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17262988, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mgkrupa, 3 years agoI love that it hides but (by default) doesn't automatically unload/close a tab that you stash (it stays loaded in the background) because it allows you to switch back to the hidden tab without having to reload the page (so e.g. you don't lose your place in a video your watching). You can customize this behavior in the options menu or change it so that stashed tabs are automatically unloaded/closed. It might automatically unload running hidden background tabs under certain conditions but this behavior can be disabled in the options.
There's no picture of it, but the "Tab Stash" submenu in the (right-click) context menu has the items:
Show Stashed Tabs in a Tab
Show Stashed Tabs in Sidebar
Stash Tabs
Stash This Tab
Stash This Tab to a New Group
Copy Tabs to Stash
Copy This Tab to Stash
Options
Firefox's sidebar (that I previously hardly ever used) makes using this addon extremely convenient because I don't have to open/switch to an intermediate "tab management/list webpage" (i.e. a webpage that lists all tabs & tab groups, like OneTab's "Display OneTab" page).
[EDIT/UPDATE: Turns out you can using the sidebar] You can stash multiple selected tabs at once but I'm not sure if it's possible to stash them directly/immediately into a preexisting named tab group of your choice like you can do with OneTab (I think that stashed tabs either automatically go to the top-most group or it creates a new unnamed tab group - it seems to only create new unnamed tab groups for me but that may be because I've been fiddling with the options).
It would also be nice if there was a menu item like "Close this tab and remove it from all tab groups" so that I don't have to manually find and remove a tab (from the tab groups) once I'm 100% completely done with it.
Overall, I think this is superior to OneTab, which was my previous tab manager (I hear that Mozilla is working on finally giving Firefox its own tab manager so we'll see if tab manager addons become unnecessary).Developer response
posted 3 years agoHi, thanks for the detailed review! Regarding your question about stashing directly to a particular stash, if you have the sidebar open, the blue buttons with downward-pointing arrows (the first two buttons under each stash name) will do this, but there’s no way to do it from the context menu currently.
There’s an open feature request here that you can keep an eye on though: https://github.com/josh-berry/tab-stash/issues/30
Thanks again and I’m glad to hear you’re finding Tab Stash useful! - Rated 5 out of 5by MinitShop, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by manhtuong, 3 years agoý tưởng thật là tuyệt, tôi đang gặp vấn đề về kho luu trữ của mình, cảm ơn về ý tưởng của bạn
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hemanti, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cromulist, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14182310, 3 years agoIt's what I needed for so long! All the features I actually liked from SimpleTabGroups but as a sidebar and PERFORMANT!
Grouping stuff is super comfortable. And the search with unlimited results is great. - Rated 4 out of 5by Andreas, 3 years agoHi, love this extension. but im currently experiencing alot of ram usage to the point where firefox is useless... i have a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and 16gb 3000MHz ram.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHi, if you suspect Tab Stash is causing high RAM usage, please feel free to open an issue on GitHub and I'd be happy to help you troubleshoot.
Note that by default, Tab Stash will unload older stashed tabs to prevent memory use from growing too high, and the defaults are calibrated even for lower-spec computers with less memory than yours. So absent a bug, you should not have to worry about memory usage with Tab Stash. - Rated 2 out of 5by Mike&Anita, 3 years agoFirefox slowed down too much to use it after I installed Tab Stash, I did not meticulously troubleshoot the issue, instead I Reset Firefox and today I researched re-installing Tab Stash but after reading reviews with similar reports of Firefox slowing down I decided not to try it again.
I am using an i7-6700K 4 core CPU running windows 10, which is still a decent powered computer so I really do not know if Tab Stash slowed my computer or just Firefox. I gave Tab Stash two stars for a great list of features, maybe I will try it again in a few months.Developer response
posted 3 years agoHi, there are two known issues in Tab Stash which can cause high CPU usage (see my replies to the other reviews below). However, resetting Firefox should address both issues. So, since you have reset Firefox, I would hope and expect you won't see high CPU from Tab Stash again.
However, if you do notice high CPU usage even after resetting Firefox, please feel free to open an issue on GitHub and I'd be happy to troubleshoot with you further. - Rated 5 out of 5by Commandr_, 3 years agoreally useful and fantastic extension, as a bonus: had issues and the dev immediately pointed me to a solution.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHello, at the moment, there are two known issues (one in Tab Stash and one in Firefox) that can lead to high CPU usage and which I'm looking into for the next Tab Stash release. Fortunately, there are workarounds for both.
First, if you upgraded to Tab Stash 2.10 from an earlier release and you notice high CPU usage after the upgrade, please try uninstalling/reinstalling Tab Stash (simply disabling it isn't sufficient). Pre-2.10 versions had a bug which left some stale deleted-items entries around, and when you first upgrade to 2.10, those entries will be cleared all at once, resulting in the high CPU. Uninstalling/reinstalling Tab Stash is another, faster way to clear out the old entries.
Second, there is a bug in Firefox's saved session handling which can cause Tab Stash to have high CPU usage. Tab Stash tries to work around this bug, but the workaround is what causes the high CPU. The bug seems to have gotten worse in recent Firefox releases and so I'm looking at ways to improve the workaround. In the meantime, however, clearing out any invalid saved-session data usually resolves the problem; you can find instructions here:
https://github.com/josh-berry/tab-stash/wiki/Restart-Firefox-Without-Saved-Session-Data
If neither of these things helps, please feel free to open an issue on GitHub and I'd be happy to troubleshoot further with you there. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13813702, 3 years agoThis increases the power consumption of Firefox on my Macbook Air M1 hugely. The energy impact went from around 1 to 5 to around 40. It was a total battery killer. By one-by-one disabling my extensions I found it was Tab Stash.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHello, at the moment, there are two known issues (one in Tab Stash and one in Firefox) that can lead to high CPU usage and which I'm looking into for the next Tab Stash release. Fortunately, there are workarounds for both.
First, if you upgraded to Tab Stash 2.10 from an earlier release and you notice high CPU usage after the upgrade, please try uninstalling/reinstalling Tab Stash (simply disabling it isn't sufficient). Pre-2.10 versions had a bug which left some stale deleted-items entries around, and when you first upgrade to 2.10, those entries will be cleared all at once, resulting in the high CPU. Uninstalling/reinstalling Tab Stash is another, faster way to clear out the old entries.
Second, there is a bug in Firefox's saved session handling which can cause Tab Stash to have high CPU usage. Tab Stash tries to work around this bug, but the workaround is what causes the high CPU. The bug seems to have gotten worse in recent Firefox releases and so I'm looking at ways to improve the workaround. In the meantime, however, clearing out any invalid saved-session data usually resolves the problem; you can find instructions here:
https://github.com/josh-berry/tab-stash/wiki/Restart-Firefox-Without-Saved-Session-Data
If neither of these things helps, please feel free to open an issue on GitHub and I'd be happy to troubleshoot further with you there. - Rated 5 out of 5by pnhan, 3 years agoThanks for the great utility.
I have ADHD and often have information overload, this tool has helped me a lot in staying organized.
PS.
If you can integrate feature to manage tags in lists/groups or items, the utility will be even better.
Thank you so much. - Rated 5 out of 5by Ozymandias, 3 years agoWhat a relief this extension exists. I love you guys for this. No more cluttered desktop with a bunch of windows open, just freedom!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mirek Jaros, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by gritty Rōnin, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by goldb, 3 years agoneed an option of "maximum no of last stashed session to keep in record" so that it will only retain last few sessions in record or else it will keep adding bookmarks for unlimited times.
thanks. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15166984, 3 years agoI haven't seen this mentioned before but I'm actually using this for all of my bookmarks. It just makes organising them so much easier. 18 Groups and 901 tabs... wonder if there's a limit? Seems to be working well so far.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHi, thanks for your review! There's no limit as such, and I've heard of users with thousands of tabs saved with no issues. So you should be good for a while. :)
If you do run into issues, though, feel free to open a GitHub issue and I'll be happy to take a look! - Rated 2 out of 5by Chi, 3 years agoWhenever I turn on this add on, firefox starts to take 60%-70% CPU usage. Had to remove it though the user experience is good. Hope the developer can help solve this issue.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHi, there are a few possible reasons for this, some of which are caused by Firefox itself--you can check this bug report on GitHub to see if any of the situations apply to you: https://github.com/josh-berry/tab-stash/issues/175
And if the suggestions there don't help, please feel free to open another bug report on GitHub and I'll be happy to take a look. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13654436, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13840362, 3 years ago