Reviews for Tree Style Tab
Tree Style Tab by Piro (piro_or)
Review by muddlemand
Rated 4 out of 5
by muddlemand, 7 years agoThank goodness you have updated for Ff 57. It was showing as "legacy" and I was dreading the loss of TST. But it isn't as good (yet): The cross for closing a tab is on the left, even when the tree is on the right of the browser - I always have it on the right. And the Ff tabs show along the top as well as TST's tree at the side! I know it's early days but I hope you'll fix these two things very soon.
Also, thank you for the instructions for converting session information manually - but I'm fairly tech savvy and didn't find it straightforward. Many users won't know how to start "command prompt", how to find the profile directory, where to look for about:support. I corrected/removed a typo in the code you gave (intelligent guessing based on distant memories of DOS - I decided to risk it! I'm not a programmer) - but not everyone will know to copy and paste that, nor to paste each line one at a time, nor to remove the C:...> from each line. These things aren't obvious if you don't already know. Then I looked at the addon options, after converting the session info because that came up first of all, and saw another way of converting (not manually) but no advice how to do it; maybe that would have been more sensible, I can't tell.
Some user feedback for you, the "non-techy" point of view. :) Overall though, very very glad to have Tree Style Tabs as I'd never want to live without it. :)
UPDATE 18th Nov '17: Just been surprised by a tab opening that told me why the top tab bar can't be hidden. I'm not techy enough to risk the workaround, I have no experience customising CSS. I understand it's the fault of Firefox and can wait... hoping it isn't too long a wait! But in the meantime: (1) Can we have a context menu link to settings, instead of having to open extensions manager, please? and (2) the "Allow to create bookmarks" checkbox (under "Bookmark this tree" in the context menu options) won't allow me to select it, it just blinks and stays unchecked. Oh, and (3) the option for fixing the width back in the context menu - if that's even possible, now we're forced into using the sidebar instead of "real" tabs-at-the-side?
I really don't like any other browsers, I periodically try them all again (whenever I get fed up with Firefox!) - especially since Ff stopped supporting Java - but I don't know if I can cope without Tree Style Tab. Let's hope the voice of the masses is heard, so many people feel trapped and cheated by this unwanted update to 57. Looking foward to whatever you can do to make TST great again. :)
Also, thank you for the instructions for converting session information manually - but I'm fairly tech savvy and didn't find it straightforward. Many users won't know how to start "command prompt", how to find the profile directory, where to look for about:support. I corrected/removed a typo in the code you gave (intelligent guessing based on distant memories of DOS - I decided to risk it! I'm not a programmer) - but not everyone will know to copy and paste that, nor to paste each line one at a time, nor to remove the C:...> from each line. These things aren't obvious if you don't already know. Then I looked at the addon options, after converting the session info because that came up first of all, and saw another way of converting (not manually) but no advice how to do it; maybe that would have been more sensible, I can't tell.
Some user feedback for you, the "non-techy" point of view. :) Overall though, very very glad to have Tree Style Tabs as I'd never want to live without it. :)
UPDATE 18th Nov '17: Just been surprised by a tab opening that told me why the top tab bar can't be hidden. I'm not techy enough to risk the workaround, I have no experience customising CSS. I understand it's the fault of Firefox and can wait... hoping it isn't too long a wait! But in the meantime: (1) Can we have a context menu link to settings, instead of having to open extensions manager, please? and (2) the "Allow to create bookmarks" checkbox (under "Bookmark this tree" in the context menu options) won't allow me to select it, it just blinks and stays unchecked. Oh, and (3) the option for fixing the width back in the context menu - if that's even possible, now we're forced into using the sidebar instead of "real" tabs-at-the-side?
I really don't like any other browsers, I periodically try them all again (whenever I get fed up with Firefox!) - especially since Ff stopped supporting Java - but I don't know if I can cope without Tree Style Tab. Let's hope the voice of the masses is heard, so many people feel trapped and cheated by this unwanted update to 57. Looking foward to whatever you can do to make TST great again. :)
2,168 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17963966, 18 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Simeon Vincent, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nick, 5 days agoBeen using for years, great add-on. But now affected by the new Firefox sidebar that appears alongside and can't be removed.
Great that this was noted 2 days ago (issue #3726 on the support pages) as an "enhancement" in triage. Hopefully its a top priority! It says "collapse the side bar manually" but everytime I do that TST also closes? - Rated 5 out of 5by beaMNode, 5 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by emad, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18129328, 10 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Vishal, 10 days agoOverall a good idea. But some basic features are missing like minimizing and expansion of sidebar. Tried with CSS, but the experience not yet smooth. Additionally also has stability issues - sometimes keeps loading and the only way to make it work is to exit firefox and reopen
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18923335, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14275792, 13 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by few, 13 days agoThis is so great, but it could be much better if you could rename the trees for better organization, just like the folders in Google Chrome or Brave. I found this extension almost perfect, the only thing missing is that it's very easy to get lost without opening a search tab to be the "father" of the tree, for example, opening a search on Google and for emails, and inside the tree, put the emails that I use both personally and for work.
- Rated 5 out of 5by SK, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ls, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18912956, 24 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Craig, 25 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by 星絢未央, 25 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17631398, 25 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18902320, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18902788, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lazuleye, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alice, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kyle Farnung, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jim_Di, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by thingthing, a month agoit would be five stars if it didnt totally eat up my ram, it actually burned and finished off two of my laptops.
when i finally could get a new computer i read up online what others experiences were, and yea many people had experienced the wild ram issues too, for which the creator had posted solutions.
so, i tried the "solutions". nope it didnt work, so i didnt wanna burn or harm my new computer and promptly uninstalled. not worth it.
it was truly excellent though for organizing stuff and for my audhd self, but it will very likely come at the cost of your hardware.
and yea it got gradually worse the more tabs i stashed. didnt matter if they were just in folders and "not running" because no yea they still did somehow.
really really really unfortunate!! i hope this is something that will work in the future.
giving a two because it really really was very nice organizing even if it cost me badly in the end...
downloader beware!!!!!
edit: nah fuck this, switching to one star so people more likely can even see the fuckery when they press reviews - Rated 5 out of 5by gsw945, a month agoVery good, a lot of tabs can be located faster, the same tabs open pages are also organized together!