Reviews for Tab Center Reborn
Tab Center Reborn by Mélanie Chauvel (ariasuni)
137 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Eleos, 4 years agoAmazing addon that finally made me able to open the trillion tabs i need everyday.
The "unload tab" is also very pleasant to have to save memory - Rated 5 out of 5by Zareh, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Friendly, 5 years agoSuch a useful extension. I remapped the hotkey to open the sidebar to my mouse and use it all the time. I only wish that the search would be active as soon as I open the sidebar so I could start typing right away and not have to click the search field first.
- Rated 5 out of 5by hot-soup, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Meenit, 5 years agoThis is the best vertical/tree-style tab extension for Firefox.
- Rated 4 out of 5by grahamperrin, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13726901, 5 years agoEn 2J d'utilisation, devenu totalement indispensable ! Merci pour le travail !
- Rated 5 out of 5by mediapuck, 5 years agoYour extension is the sole reason that I have not abandoned FF when version 2.x came around. Although I still debated to switch browser until just now, when I read the reviews, that includes your responses .
It is not so much the stars that convinve me than you responding to questions with real answers. That tells me how serious you are with your extension.
Mozilla does not have a good track record how it treated it's extension contributors when the switch to Quantum took place. They threw quite a few incredible contributors - out like the baby with the bathwater.
Myself, I still reel with disappointments, one after another. Simply because "true" improvements are the ones that consider all aspects of the platform and also do listen to its users. Ans Mozilla still in that respect has a long way to go.
I am definitely one of those very early users that downloaded Firefox back when they started. And I am not easily discouraged either. Its just lately it simply prooves to that I may spend my teime better than always trying to find either new extension or make due with en ever growing css file, hunting for others that try to find also the same solutions.
So, Thank you for your extension. For now, I work nearly normal again with this browser. Well better said, more like 80% from where I was even just a short while ago from 71.x version, that had to be custumozed already for being intuitive to a coder and developer.
Working all day also on websites, there are certain "flows" and functions that allow me to be 100 percent effective. But every time some vital step of that workflow is gone again, it throws me back to the hunt for alternatives and more often than not, its not just the easy "find 'the' extension.
If the next major update chops the browser workflow again dramatically - and your extension does not work like it does right now I will definitely switch broser. Currently Firefox is still my primary use. But I have ported a lot of my most needed functions already over to Opera, including using the FVD Speeddial extension, which works flawlessly, despite that some say it does not. I have over 3500 dials I need in a specific order, and that dwarfet my attempts to use any of the Opera native ones.
FVD weathered all 'disaster' upgrades, more or less well. Before the switch to quantum they were very under-rated as FF extension. They jumped to finally be nearly number one for good reason.
I am hoping that your extension weatheres also in the coming future of Mozilla.
So - YES - THANK YOU for yur work. - Rated 5 out of 5by Andrei Shevchuk, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12450775, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by lkraav, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kjetil Torgrim Homme, 5 years agothis extension works very well for me! I have 204 tabs just now, which is way too many, of course, but with this extension it is not a problem.
I would love to see a shortcut to focus "Search tabs", but know that this is not possible due to Firefox policy. Also, when tab selection is implemented, it could be useful to, say, move all matching tabs to the top or bottom, or into a new window. - Rated 5 out of 5by Leon, 5 years agoI have a few ideas for features if you are willing to expand your extension:
- Tab selection to perform actions on multiple tabs at once
- A feature for quickly creating bookmarks of open tabs/selected tabs
- Automatic tab suspending after a selected time of inactivity(maybe even auto-hiding and bookmarking the tab)
Thank you for the great extension!Developer response
posted 5 years agoHi!
– Tab selection is planned, but it will take a bit of time since I’m busy and need to clean/test properly the extension’s code before adding more features.
– I decided to not include the feature to bookmark a tab in the context menu, because adding a bookmark from a WebExtension doesn’t open the editor (“New Bookmark” panel that is opened by default when you add a bookmark).
Similarly, I can’t open the same dialog that you get when you try to bookmark tabs in the native tab bar. Well I could recreate the dialogs like Tree Style Tab but it’s a lot of work and I don’t want to introduce features unless they are at least as good as how it works natively.
So I guess I could implement these features the easy way, just by saving bookmarks in the default location, and for multiple tabs, saving them in a folder with some automatic name… I’ll think about it and see when I’ll implement tab selection I guess.
– Automatic tab suspension can and should be done with another extension. For example, you can use Auto Tab Discard (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard/).
Thanks a lot for the feedback and the kind words, it always means a lot! - Rated 5 out of 5by gamerz651, 5 years agomerci pour tous tes retours de commentaires (je suis obligé d'effacer pour reposter car on n'a pas la possibilité de répondre à une réponse de l'auteur).
Est-ce un bug ou une feature? Lorsqu'on duplique un onglet à partir des onglets de la barre verticale, seule la page affichée est dupliquée dans un nouvel onglet et non pas l'ensemble du contenu de l'onglet (du coup il manque les pages précédentes et suivantes de l'onglet).
Par contre, dupliquer un onglet sur la barre horizontale standard, duplique vraiment l'ensemble de l'onglet (incluant les pages suivantes et précédentes).
Merci encore pour ta réactivitéDeveloper response
posted 5 years agoJ’ai mis mon adresse e-mail en tant que «Courriel d’assistance» si tu veux continuer à discuter de façon plus pratique.
Comme la fonction pour dupliquer les onglets accessible depuis les WebExtensions est un buguée sur Firefox, j’ai pris le parti de répliquer la façon plus correctement avec la fonction pour ouvrir des onglets. Je réfléchissais déjà à revenir sur cette façon de faire, j’ai d’ailleurs proposé une correction à Mozilla[1], car elle pose d’autres soucis, comme celui que tu viens d’évoquer que je ne peux pas corriger mais aussi de devoir tout de même prendre en compte le comportement de la fonction dupliquer de WebExtensions qui peut être utilisé par une autre extension.
Du coup mon plan va être je pense d’utiliser la fonction dupliquer de base pour avoir les avantages comme la conservation d’historique (mais aussi d’autres trucs), essayer de gérer ça correctement (même si c’est chiant et quitte à faire des trucs pas très «propres») et d’attendre que Firefox intègre ma correction.
Je viens tout juste d’intégrer un outil de tests automatisés qui va me permettre de gérer ce genre de situations beaucoup plus facilement, car à la main c’est un peu galère à tester et surtout c’est facile à casser.
[1]: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D48471 - Rated 5 out of 5by cocosushi, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Jill, 5 years agoNew version can't handle Firefox theme with Firefox Color addon. :(
Developer response
posted 5 years agoHi! After your comment, I though a lot about it. I’m currently working on a solution to work with Firefox Color but at the same time to avoid using unreadable colors from bad/incomplete themes.
Currently, it falls back to the default theme if the theme will *probably* be usable by this extension (there is a lot of problematic themes and it’s hard to know if they will work badly with Tab Center Reborn). This will change to a better algorithm so it will work perfectly with Firefox Color but I’m still not sure how to notify the user that their theme is not usable because I don’t want to be intrusive but I don’t want the users to think that my extension is buggy either.
So yeah, that’s being worked on, but that’s tricky to make it work perfectly well for every users without being annoying or confusing. - Rated 5 out of 5by Vedun, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by AcidCrash, 5 years agoHi, just noticed there is an issue when I make a multiple Tab Select.
When I use Ctrl+multiple tab select (default horizontal tabstrip), then press Ctrl+W to close them they are removed from horizontal tabstrip but remain in the extension verticalstrip. Also there are no visual representation that multiple tab selection is made.
Do you plan to fix/update this?
UPD: Looks like the issue with mutlipletabselect is caused by the following CSS that I'm using (from the original Tab Center page)
/* Reduce tab height */
#tablist-wrapper.shrinked .tab:not(.pinned) {height: 30px !important;}
I've noticed that you suggest using a bit different CSS for that purpose. Apologies for the false alarm
Also a minor issue is with Extension options > Custom Stylesheet. I'm on Win10x64 and cant change the width of that section (and by default it's really narrow)Developer response
posted 5 years ago> When I use Ctrl+multiple tab select (default horizontal tabstrip), then press Ctrl+W to close them they are removed from horizontal tabstrip but remain in the extension verticalstrip.
I do not have this issue, with the current version of the extension. Let me know what settings you are using and your version of Firefox, so I can try to reproduce.
> Also there are no visual representation that multiple tab selection is made.
The WebExtensions API doesn’t give me access to the info that a tab is selected or not. I plan to eventually implement tab selection in Tab Center Reborn itself, but it can’t be «synchronized» between an extension and Firefox tab bar, sadly. I think I’ll open a bug report on Bugzilla soon though, and maybe they’ll implement it.
> Also a minor issue is with Extension options > Custom Stylesheet. I'm on Win10x64 and cant change the width of that section (and by default it's really narrow)
I changed that already for the next version! :) - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15202344, 5 years agoThanks a lot for you extension. I love it. Everything is beautifully animated. You listens to your users. It's perfect !
- Rated 5 out of 5by yegorius, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14192447, 5 years agoImproves on Redux in some ways, but I have issues with tab titles and thumbnails not updating. I don't experience these issues with Redux.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15050293, 6 years agoThe little push I was in need to switch to mozilla :)
- Rated 5 out of 5by spikespaz, 6 years ago