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Session Sync ruma Gabriel Ivanica

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Review by eUROs
ruma eUROs, 7 år sidan
UPDATE 29/02/20:
After I tried other similar Addons, this is the WINNER for me for now! It takes some time to figure out all the features and tools, but it is a very convenient and a solid small piece of software, which is a necessary tool for those who want to never loose their hundreds of tabs!
One more feature that is still lacking and is not in the extension, as I said in my older reviews, there aren't any displayed NUMBERS of the open tabs, just to know how many tabs we have in one session Window.

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-> 1/9/18: Thanks for the very fast reply!
1) I am glad that you liked my idea of showing the number of open tabs in a session. It will be a very good way to separate which session has the most or less tabs. :-)
2) That's would be cool as well. (A search box for finding tabs names), is in your future plans!
3) I never had more than one window with tabs open. Only one window, always. And I've never understood the reason why some people have more than one browser window open, with 3 tabs on one and 20 tabs on the other... what for. He He he

* => Please consider one more thing that this addon is causing. Because before installing this addon, this wasn't happening. Some (tabs/pages) can not be Loaded when I start my Firefox, and they are displaying this message:
<If the page was not loaded automatically please check that lazy loading is enabled in addon configuration panel. >>
Firefox Addon API prevents loading certain URL types. This is not an addon issue.
►chrome: URLs
►javascript: URLs
►data: URLs
►file: URLs (files on the filesystem)
►priviledged about: URLs
I have already Enabled that before, but again sometimes I have to reload the certain tabs to show the content and sometimes they are dead. they can't be reloaded.

+ Up to today of trying this addon, I am happy of its general performance and its present features. :-)

By the way Why you said I gave only one star rating? Haven't you noticed that I gave 3 stars on my First try rating. Not One. :-)
Now I am giving one more star (and you have 4 ★★★★). Because when I start my Firefox Browser, it doesn't asks me to restore my session anymore. I guess that was only happened on the first day of installing this addon. Afterwards has worked great! I will give 5 stars when You implement the 2 features above :-)
Thanks again!

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---- Previous Review: It seems to be a very promising addon. But there are some things that are not working well as expected by me:
1) I don't see anywhere in the window view, the number of Tabs in a specific session. It would be really helpful to know how many tabs we have in each session, because I usually have between 300-400 open tabs in firefox!.
2) the search box is for what purpose exactly? Because I am searching for some tabs in my session and it doesn't find anything. Is it a search box for sessions only? really?
3) I am a little confused because I noticed that the New tabs I opened on my Firefox browser are not saved automatically every 15 seconds, as shows in the options menu. I might be wrong because it is my first interaction with the app, but lets see what will happen in few days. I will change my review to positive (add more stars) or to a negative one (remove stars), if it asks me the next time I open my browser and restores the older session which I didn't want to restore and lost my new session. Lets see.

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xtalüx rutzijol 7 år sidan
Updated Response [03-09-2018]

Thanks for telling me about that issue with dead tabs that can't be reloaded. If they are one of those types of URL sadly that's normal. (And you can't even press on the link to reload it from what I remember). If it was a normal web page.. then it might be an issue and I will investigate it. (Actually with Firefox 63 I will be able to use an internal API and not rely a special workaround I had to build for this.)

Sorry about that misunderstanding with 1-star rating. Probably my wording was not perfect but I never said you did that. I clearly saw you gave it 3 stars. I was actually talking about some "general" easy to disappoint users when the addon does not do what they want/expect without taking into consideration what addon description. I suppose it was not the right time/place to say that.

Yes, better support the other 2 features you requested will be surely implemented in futures updates.
Thanks again for the support.

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Hi. Thanks for the detailed review.
1) Well, sadly the addon doesn't show that, but since it's a good idea I will add this feature in a future update.

2) Sorry but at this very moment that's all the search box can do. I don't have a full search feature. It is planned but not yet ready.

3) Please take into consideration that the addon is mostly intended for on-demand saving into bookmarks. The auto-saving history is mostly intended for keeping session for a short time (last 2 days, last 10 browser sessions, etc). Also, at this moment the saving does not work for closed windows (that meas if you have 3 windows each with 100 tabs and you close one, only the remaining windows will be saved (and overwrite the last save)). I'm working on a fix that keeps tracking for all the windows.

Things to consider:

- Take into consideration that saving 400 tabs as bookmarks might freeze the browser for a fraction of a second (probably depends on the PC configuration as well) but from test I know that saving around 1000 tabs took 1 second in my case.
- Ultimately, the addon might not suit you well at this moment because of the missing features that you may consider critical. The addon was initially built with a specific purpose in mind - manual session management while other auto-tracking features were added over time and of course it's still missing things.

Please be fair with the final rating when you plan to update it and also take into consideration what the addon can do and not only some specific requirements that might be missing (I totally get that missing some features can be deal-breaking for some users but I often fail to see why is that a good reason to give a 1 star rating :D). Of course, it's a free world, free speech, free addons :)

Thanks again.
235 reviews
  • ruma Doza_Vikadina, 2 månader sidan
    Отличное и весьма удобное дополнение, поэтому здесь нечего добавить
  • ruma HumanistAtypik, 7 månader sidan
  • ruma Lily White, eit år sidan
    Easy to use and simple
  • ruma Jim Aldon D'Souza, eit år sidan
    I wish they would add firefox container support. I have tabs stored that are assigned to specific containers, which go haywire when restored in a new session because they get assigned to "no container" and go on a loop
  • ruma rediffusion, eit år sidan
  • ruma Mostly Harmless, eit år sidan
    Although not updated for some time, this add-on has consistently worked for me for over 5 years. It's been my go-to research tool when using Firefox. Bookmarks are OK but fall short when trying to do some concerted research but this session manager is fantastic. It's never failed me and syncs easily between devices using Mozilla Sync. Thanks to the dev for this gem and hopefully it stays updated as Firefox progresses.
  • ruma Montanagrl5, 2 år sidan
  • ruma EcksDy, 2 år sidan
  • ruma Firefox okisanel 14684093, 2 år sidan
    This addon does what firefox sync should do. And it does even more. You can setup collections of links. Fortunately firefox sync does sync bookmarks reliably. But it fails in syncing tabs in a reliable way. Here session sync comes in as a convenient workaround.
  • ruma Firefox okisanel 16850052, 2 år sidan
    Lost all saved history when I encounter a PC crash.

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    xtalüx rutzijol 2 år sidan
    Please do not use Session Sync for auto history saving. It's not something that it's guaranteed and it's even in the description of the addon on the first line with bold. It's just a feature that is most of good enough but not something that is perfect.

    THIS ADDON IS NOT INTENDED FOR AUTO-SAVING OF SESSIONS!

    As for saving sessions manually, those sessions are stored into bookmarks so it should be impossible to lose them unless the whole Firefox profile is broken in which case is not the addon fault.
  • ruma Firefox okisanel 17989927, 2 år sidan
    I use Session Sync since 3 years now and it worked super for me, fast, reliable and neat to use. After a recent computer breakdown, at the computer store they made a new operating system installation and a minor recovery of my data. Mr.Ivanica helped me providing precious information and all the support in order to get the extension back at work again with all my sessions 100% restored.
  • ruma Firefox okisanel 17422724, 2 år sidan
    Extremely useful addon. I have used this for at least 3 years.
  • ruma Nabeel Kirmani, 2 år sidan
    The best out there.
  • ruma Firefox okisanel 17698144, 2 år sidan
    Great add-on! Pinned tabs are saved, but not restored as pinned in Firefox on Linux. It would be fantastic to be able to find duplicate tabs also! Cheers!
  • ruma BryanChance, 2 år sidan
  • ruma Firefox okisanel 17687656, 2 år sidan
  • ruma irwanwr, 2 år sidan
    Great add-on. I wish there are options to change the colour or theme of the interface. Something even basic, like; light, grey and dark.
  • ruma Firefox okisanel 6010058, 2 år sidan
  • ruma PeaceByJesus.net, 3 år sidan
    Sorry: I had stated that "there is no option to save a session" since I did not see one, or read that this was to be found via mouse hover over a heart icon (like "favorites"). I thought it would be in text, and maybe via right click. As a long time user of the legacy Session Manager I also assumed that this add on would auto save sessions depending on how often you wanted, and where you wanted. And restore local web pages as well.

    However, the untitled heart icon does work to save that session as a bookmark, which is good though where the bookmark is saved is not an option.

    And I also see via the tutorial (moz-extension://cf54e725-638a-4074-b4ae-b519e7d0f380/data/home/home.html) that Gabriel Ivanica has put a lot of work into this add on and that there are some options!

    So thanks for this needed good add on, and it works for me even while using the Izheil Multi-row tabs patch.

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    xtalüx rutzijol 3 år sidan
    What do you mean by no option to save sessions?
    There's a red heart icon that has a tooltip with "Save Session".
    Auto-save is not saving in bookmarks, only manual saving will do so because otherwise I would create thousands of almost useless bookmarks for users.
    The addon should work as intended, but in case some other addon creates some weird incompatibility it might not, but that's something I can't fix or change. Though, there should clearly be no issues to save a certain session.
  • ruma asdasd asdasasd, 3 år sidan
    Excellent!!! very few plugins are as useful as this one. I like to have many tabs open and this tool allows me to manage them in a spectacular way. Thank you very much!!!

    I hope that in the future it will continue to be updated, even if they don't add more features, it should be incorporated by Firefox natively.
  • ruma dafFDasd, 3 år sidan
    OK, so I have updated the review:

    Lists currently open windows and tabs, clicking switches to clicked tab. But no tab delete nor search in tabs functionality. Max Pop up window size is too small. It needs to be a full page in new tab.

    Does not auto save sessions.

    UPDATE: The „Tab View” button opens a new page instead of a pop up. I'd rename it to something more intuitive (maybe view everything in new tab). It is possible to search the tabs there using Ctrl+g.

    But despite the entry being highlighted after exiting from the search, the Enter key does not activate the tab.

    Also Ctrl+Shift+V is a bad choice of hotkey. It is already universally reserved and used as „Paste without formatting”. I'd recommend opening in new tab view by default instead.




    UPDATE 2: The hotkey can be changed. But the Settings popup closes every damn time I set something. It requires to reopen the stupid main pop up, then the settings pop up again and scroll down again to the last place.


    Additionally the developer has not responded to the lack of close current tab/window functionality. This is the most important feature remaining.

    Instead of practical functionality, this add-on includes wasteful animations without option to turn them off. They should be off by default or removed completely. It is an (annoying) anti-feature to waste time staring at unnecessary delays in workflow.

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    xtalüx rutzijol 3 år sidan
    Hi. I understand that you would expect something from an addon but the description states clearly that the addon is not intended for Auto-Saving of session. At the same time popup size is simply limited by Firefox, that's the maximum any developer can do, simply I can't make it bigger than that because that's and API limitation (nobody knows why just Firefox stupid decisions).
    Regarding the full-page or new-tab -> those options are already available
    Regarding search in tabs: yeah.. sorry that's a feature that would've been nice but was not able to implement it.
    Auto-Save: There is some autosave implemented but not a full-featured like maybe other addons might have, but the whole purpose of the addon is to manually save what you need.
  • ruma Firefox okisanel 17455306, 3 år sidan
  • ruma SiteBuilderOne, 3 år sidan
    Excellent add-on, highly intuitive.
    The ability to dock this in to native FireFox Sidebar would be awesome (Simple Tab Groups has this option). Currently using Tab View working great - thanks!!!
  • ruma Rei, 3 år sidan
  • ruma kcufuoyeid, 3 år sidan
    If you have hundreds of tabs autosave feature will use high IO/ disk writing, even while Firefox is IDLE. I mean no user activity, not a single website opened or active, no changes happening. On fresh profile it's negligle. My main profile its hitting up to 36mb every 10 seconds. Given that I leave Firefox running 24/7. This is an SSD killer. For the record I have thousands of bookmarks and hundreds of tabs opened but they are inactive and unloaded. I recently updated Firefox to 100 and have Firefox running in Sandboxie. A workaround for this is to disable the 'autosave' option or change it to a high value like 600seconds (10 minutes). The default setting is absurdly low 15 seconds. I personally uninstalled as I rarely used this addon.

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    xtalüx rutzijol 3 år sidan
    Hi. I'm sorry that you consider this a bad experience but please understand that your context is way outside of a normal user situation. The addon just tries to save the data into storage and I have no way of configuring how and where that storage goes, it's what the API provides. As regarding the configuration, you have the option to not use the saving at all (disable) or you have the option to change the interval of the saves, there is not really anything left to do, and the timing was set to 15 seconds because most users have a few tabs opened and saving them will not require substantial IO or storage. In your case yes it does not makes sense but that's why you have the options to change. The storage space is just made up of the URL and title of the addon and the icon of the site nothing more, so there's no real overhead that I create other than what it is required for a session.

    Please also not that the addon description clearly states that "THIS ADDON IS NOT INTENDED FOR AUTO-SAVING OF SESSIONS!".
    Having this in mind, giving a 1 star rating to something that is not intended for your own purposes and in that context of having hundreds of tabs it's a little bit excessive.