Reviews for Tabby - Window & Tab Manager
Tabby - Window & Tab Manager by BillK
191 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cyberknight, a year agoInteresting concept, also adopted by other tab managers (creates lists of tabs, which are much easier than tiny squeezed tabs in the built-in bar to view and handle). The preview of the tab is very useful, outstanding from other tab managers. On the down side, the save-all-tabs function does just that, saves all tabs... And nothing more. No management of saved tabs, controlled restoration, moving tabs, nothing at all. When restoring the tabs, it simply throws them all open at once, which can be disastrous if there are hundreds of tabs (even more so if the tabs are from authenticated sites, which may not like multiple tab access.) Last, but not least, restored tabs ignore containers.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18257732, a year agoI like this addon, but the lack of a user guide is frustrating. I only learned how to use it by reading the author's response to reviews here
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 10372875, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18142251, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by pnhan, a year agoBeautiful and nicely addons!!
Just one point is it super heavy for my old laptop... - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18076888, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13930295, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ALLEX, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by e scoles, 2 years agoMain thing I want from a tab manager is for it to auto-save sessions so they can be restored when Firefox inevitably fails to reload them after a restart. This does not appear to do that. It appears to do nothing but facilitate navigating between tabs, & suspending some tabs that are not currently needed. It seems to do those things OK, but they just aren't nearly as important to me as the baseline functionality of saving a list of open tabs to be restored on restart.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Cam NYC, 2 years agoI'm sorry, developer, but I've tried and tried to get a manual for this extension, to no avail. The user interface is not so obvious that you don't need one.
You say "You can even save all you windows and tabs for later with just one click!" - ok, then, how do I do that? I had a ton of tabs open, clicked on the "save websites for later", closed firefox, and when I came back there was no sign of those tabs anywhere! I'm so aggravated!
Please include documentation for your project! Your shortcuts don't help. A window is a collection of tabs? Or is that the little folder icon? Shortcut for opening last window does not work for me.
Why do you assume we know these things? Btw, I'm computer savvy, even dabble in a couple of programming languages. And yet I cannot use your extension!Developer response
posted 2 years agoOnce you click on the "save websites for later" button and it shows you a checkmark indicating it saved successfully, you just need to click the second button right below it and it will restore everything. I hoped it would be visible and clear since it's shown immediately on the front page.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by the little folder icon, but all the tabs should just show up directly on the front. Windows should say "Window 1", 2, and so on. In that way yeah it's a collection of tabs.
As for the shortcuts it's kind of a spaghetti of different operating systems having different shortcut conflicts, and so I've tried to make it so that it's easy to change the shortcuts to your own specifications. See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/manage-extension-shortcuts-firefox (It's in the settings page for future reference) - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 5905964, 2 years agoIf I've denied the permission for tab preview, just go ahead and disable the preference for that instead of bothering me again and again about it.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThat should not be happening! I think the problem is that the actual Firefox permission popup opens *behind* the Tabby window, so even though Tabby is supposed to automatically disable tab previews once the user denies the permission, it doesn't get a chance to since it's already closed. I'll have to find a workaround for that but for now can you try disabling tab previews directly from the options page? - Rated 5 out of 5by Rahul, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Pedro Diniz Guglielmeli, 2 years agoExtension opens "what's new" tab in spam-like behaviour. Today it opened amid my game, giving me a ping spike for something definetelly not urgent. I know the developer works hard to make this extension even better, but invasive behaviours like this are annoying and should be opt-in.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoIt should no longer be an issue in v3.1, there was a bug before that where the what's new page would open on every browser update. Hope this helps! - Rated 5 out of 5by ysandeep, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Michael Richards, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hollytryx, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by arthaxerces, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12674307, 2 years agoTried it. Changed the size settings and the box is now blank and I can't access settings anymore from anywhere. Deleting and re-adding doesn't get it back. Settings are saved and I see no way to reset it. Nothing on the github either. Thanks, but useless now.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17685463, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 6651174, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Ruboka, 2 years agoIt keeps opening the what is new page on github and it is always the same content. Last update on 13.8.22? why display it if nothing has changed since then? make it stop
- Rated 5 out of 5by Claudiu, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by sam, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by emmaneugene, 2 years ago